Global property index

You can apply these properties only on the global context.

For Netscape 3 users only : desactivate the withCSS option to have a better result !

Name

Description

 Default value 
html.lang This is the language of your document. It is used for date and table of contents title.
see date and tocTitle.

A better way to set the language of your document is to set the attribute LANG on the element HTML. (<html lang="fr">)

en
bigger Add several files for differents resolutions.
not yet supported 		no
height The slide must be on one page exactly.
this property has two values : normal or full. 		full
javascript If you want to do your conference with Internet Explorer 4 and to have special keys to browse your slides, set this option to yes.
  • <space> (or N) : go to the next slide.
  • B (or P) : go to the previous slide.
  • T : go to the table of contents.
  • F : view this slide with a bigger font (not yet supported)

Warning : don't add this feature if you want to look your slides with Netscape 3 !

 no
separator This property indicates the element's name to find find all slides. H1
printer-size This property defines the relative size of the font for the printer, in a range from 1 to 7. A value of 1 results in the smallest font, and a value of 7 results in the largest font. You can also specify the size using a plus or minus sign in front of the number to change the size with respect to the base font size.

This property is only used by the file alls.htm (because netscape 4 doesn't use CSS for printing) or by all files if the property withCSS is set to no

H1
withCSS This property set the CSS support or not. Use this property if you don't have a CSS browser (poor guy :-( ). yes

Global and header property index

You can apply these properties on a header or the global context. (except for the type property which is only applied on a header).

You can have six headers :

  1. topLeft
  2. topCenter
  3. topRight
  4. bottomLeft
  5. bottomCenter
  6. bottomRight

Name

Description

 Default value 
color This property describes the foreground color of a text content.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

black
background-color This property describes the background color of a text content.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

white
background-image This property sets the background image of an element to be an image. When you activate this feature, background-repeat, background-position and background-attachment are availables.

If you want to have further informations about background images processing, please see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

no value
background-repeat If a background image is specified, this property specifies whether the image is repeated, and how. see background-image for further informations. repeat
background-attachment If a background image is specified, this property specifies whether it is fixed with regard to the viewport or scrolls along with the document. see background-image for further informations. no value
background-positon If a background image has been specified, this property specifies its initial position. see background-image for further informations. no value
text-align This property specifies the alignment of data and the justification of text in a cell.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

white
valign This property specifies the vertical position of data within a cell.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest HTML specification on the W3C Site.

white
width This property supplies user agents with a recommended cell width in percentage (and ONLY in percentage).

If you want to have a better look for your slide, try to have a total of 100% for your three top and bottom headers. By default, a header takes 1/3 of the screen.

33%
type This property specifies the type of a header.
none
This header has no type. Only the width of the header is inserted in the slide.
navigation
This header contains a navigation tools bar. You can have three or four buttons (see the section about navigation properties).
logo
This header contains an image. (see the section about logo properties).
note
This header contains a text. (see the section about note properties).
none

Navigation property index

Name

Description

 Default value 
previous-url This property contains the relative URL for the previous image button. ./images/left.gif
next-url This property contains the relative URL for the next image button. ./images/right.gif
toc-url This property contains the relative URL for the table of contents image button. ./images/up.gif
bigger-url This property contains the relative URL for the bigger file image button. ./images/barl.gif

Logo property index

Name

Description

 Default value 
logo-url This property contains the relative URL for the logo image button. no value

Note property index

Name

Description

 Default value 
font-family This property specifies a prioritized list of font family names and/or generic family names.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

Helvetica, sans-serif
font-size This property selects the size of the font.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

16pt and
medium for headers
font-style This property selects between normal (sometimes referred to as "roman" or "upright"), italic and oblique faces within a font family.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

normal
font-weight This property selects the weight of the font.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

normal
text-decoration This property describes decorations that are added to the text of a header.

If you are looking for all available values for this property, see the latest Cascading Style Sheets specification on the W3C Site.

none
text This property contains the text to be added in the header.

The text can contain macro. See the following section for further information about macro.

no value

Macro

JSlider allows you to define macro and use it in the text property. A macro definition begin by the keyword code following by a dot and following by your macro name.

Example :

macro.myName: Thierry Kormann

You can use it in the text property as follows : the macro markup begins with an ampersand (&) following by the name of your macro and following by a semi-colon (;).

Example:

topLeft.type: note
topLeft.text: &myName;

Macro names are case-sensitive and can't contain white spaces.

JSlider contains some predefined macros and international supports for the date and the title of the table of contents. You can overloaded all predefined macros with your owns.

Meta data are macros. The parser converts all meta data informations into macro definitions. For example, this line in your HTML document : 

<META name="copyright" CONTENT="&copy; 98">
is strictly equivalent to this one in your template file : 
macro.copyright: &copy; 98

Macro resolution : First, the loader tries to find the exact definition (e.g. macro.<name>) then the loader looks for a dynamic macro (e.g. year, currentPage, etc.) and, after, it tries to find the macro for the specific language (e.g. macro.<name>.<lang>). At this point, if no value are found, the macro is declared undefined.

If the loader can't find a macro during an expansion, the macro leaves in the text. You can use all predefined character entity references from HTML 4.0 like &amp;. Overloading a predefined character entity reference can produce an undefined result on the output.

Name

Description

 Default value 
year This macro specifies the current year. N/A
month This macro specifies the current month (depends on the language). N/A
imonth This macro specifies the current number of the month (1-12). N/A
day This macro specifies the current day in the week (depends on the language). N/A
iday This macro specifies the current number of the day (1-31). N/A
date.fr This macro specifies a default date for the french language. &month; &year;
date.en This macro specifies a default date for the english language. &month; &year;
date This macro specifies the current date. If there is no definition found in your template, the jslider « extends » this macro with the language of the document (example : macro.date.fr). For the moment, only the english and the french languages are predefined. no value
currentPage This macro specifies the current page number of the slide. N/A
nbPage This macro specifies the current number of pages in your document. N/A
page This macro specifies a page number representation for your document. &currentPage;/&nbPage;
mainTitle This macro specifies the current title of your document. N/A
slideTitle This macro specifies the current title of the slide. N/A
title This macro specifies a title representation for your document. &mainTitle; - &slideTitle;
tocTitle.fr This macro specifies a default table of contents title for the french language. Table des matières
tocTitle.en This macro specifies a default tocTitle for the english language. Table of contents
overview.en This macro specifies the default title of the first slide in english. <too big, see the result/>
overview.fr This macro specifies the default title of the first slide in french. <too big, see the result/>
author1-name This macro specifies the current author of the document.

There is an exception for the macro author1-name. The metadata author is converted into the author1-name macro and not into the macro author.

Unknown
author1-url This macro specifies the current URL of the author of the document. no value
author1 This macro specifies an example for the insertion of the author in your slides. <a class="author"
href="&author1-url;"
>&author1-name;</a>
author2-name This macro specifies the current author of the document.

There is an exception for the macro author2-name. The metadata author is converted into the author2-name macro and not into the macro author.

Unknown
author2-url This macro specifies the current URL of the author of the document. no value
author2 This macro specifies an example for the insertion of the author in your slides. <a class="author"
href="&author2-url;"
>&author2-name;</a>
authors This macro specifies authors names of your slide. It depends on the value of author2-name. If there is no value, the macro is equivalent to &author1;. Otherwise the macro is equivalent to &author1; &amp; &author2;. The method to obtain this result is not specified. N/A
copyright This macro specifies the copyright of the document. If there is a value on this macro, JSlider generates a meta data about your copyright in all generated files. no value

Lines property

These properties can be only applied for topLine and bottomLine.

Here is an example :

topLine.type: solid
bottomLine.type: image
bottomLine.image: ./images/separator.gif

Name

Description

 Default value 
type This property specifies the type of the line.
none
No separator.
solid
The separator is a simple line.
image
The separator is an image. The URL of the image comes from the URL property (see below).
solid
url This property specified the URL of the image if the type property is equals to image no value

Additionnal informations

JSlider have some useful (and unclassified) features. This part is reserved for this.

If you have, in your HTML document, those following element and/or attributes, they are reported on all generated slides :

That's all folks, have fun with JSlider !