On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:03 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Ted Roche wrote:
> > I took a look at the slides, because I know you had some troubles with
> > the way the layout looked and behaved, and I felt bad for recommending
> > S5 if it gave you so much trouble, and I think I found the source of
> > some of those problems: the main slide file has to be XHTML 1.0 Strict,
> > which is really, really finicky about how things work.
>
> > (I *think* I got this right...) It's a pain in the neck to get code this
> > way, and I use http://validator.w3.org to tell my when I've finally
> > dotted every I and crossed every T, er, t.
>
> So, is there a better way to author S5 than being really, really careful
> while writing XHTML by hand and using an XHTML validator a lot?
docutils includes support for s5 output:
rst2s5
The docutils conventions are a bit more complicated than I'd really
like, but most of the simple cases are fairly easy to master.
>
> I'm thinking about using S5 for an upcoming MerriLUG presentation but if
> it is a pain to author I might just stick with PowerPoint (yeah,
> PowerPoint on Mac OSX for a presentation on FOSS software (Python) to a
> Linux UG, spare me the comments...)
>
> Kent
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