The table of contents

The development of the tool

Commands to the lecture generator

pala.cgi:The Lecture Generator /The hierarchy: Slides in a Lecture /

• We created a special notation in the input text (commands) that enables figure insertion, comment insertion, etc.


• mark a portion of input text as comment
• syntax
:rem some comments :/rem
• The lines between :rem and :/rem does not appear in the output.


• keep the text as it is (ex: example of code)
• syntax
:pre some text that must appear as it is at the output :/pre
• The lines between :pre and :/pre must appear as a text at the output HTML pages. It is useful to show programming code.


• insertion of figure
• syntax
+img:file Example: figure 3: +img:florida/ex3.jpg
• The HTML tag 'img' are created from this notation.



• insertion of an HTML link.
• syntax
+http:anURL
• If the user adds the character '+' before an URL (in this context, a sub-string that begins with "http:") then the HTML tags a and /a are automatically generated.


• insertion of a sub-window. It is possible to show some text during the presentation of a particular topic.
• syntax
+[some text] Example: +[this is an example of a sub-window]
• When the subwindow is declared then a HTML link to a window cotaining "some text" is generated in the slide. This is done by a javascript funtion. Example: [*]. See figure 5.

Figure 5



• insertion of any HTML tag
Any HTML tag can be inserted, using the normal HTML tag notation.
this is a text in <b>bold</b>

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The table of contents

The development of the tool