Acclaim with new features

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Hi,

Andreas Fuchs mentioned on freenode:#lisp that this might be of
interest for some of you, so I announce here that I made some
(eventually interesting) changes on Daniel Barlow's Acclaim; perhaps
some of you remember his announcement mail he wrote on this list on
August, 4th 2003.

Acclaim is a presentation program written in Common Lisp. It does not
use any widget toolkit but only CLX and a ppm/pnm to clx-bitmap
converter. I sucessfully tested my branch with quite actual CVS
versions of SBCL and OpenMCL.

New features include:
  - background and inline image support
  - line breaking
  - setting of fonts, colors, and background image in a
    configure-block of the slide definition file

There is a homepage of my branch of Acclaim that includes examples of
the slide definition file, screen shots, some texts, etc. pp.:
   http://www.bl0rg.net/~mgr/acclaim.html or
   http://team.vantronix.net/~mgr/acclaim.html

Currently missing features include:
  - some kind of export to e.g. PDF
    (It should be quite straitforward to implement this using cl-pdf
    as the concepts to output text of cl-pdf and clx are quite similar.)
  - anti-aliased fonts using X Render extension
    Gilbert Baumann added support for the Render extension to CLX and
    published screenshots of two McClim programs using it for
    anti-aliased fonts on his homepage[1]. I spent some time reading
    the X documentation and source code in addition to some parts of
    the McClim code but I was not successful. It is not that simple to
    have anti-aliased fonts using bare clx as with X Render you have
    to do the whole glyph handling by yourself.  (Actually Gilbert
    just prodded me to McClim:Experimental/freetype, perhaps that
    files will help me.)

Any comments are welcome!

Bye,
Max

[1] http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/=20

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Max-Gerd Retzlaff <[email protected]>

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