[cc'ing doc-sig in case anyone is interested] On Fri, Apr 25, 2003, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
When I gave my presentation to the ACM I just created an html page, increased the font size in the browser, and scrolled through the items. I've done my share of PowerPoint slides, but I'd rather have a way to generate slides using reST. Kevin Altis said he's toying around with something to do this.
If you'd like, you can have my front-end to PythonPoint. (I created a dead-simple half-reSTed syntax to avoid the drudgery of writing XML.) Once Kevin does his work, it should be simple to modify my front-end to write out reST. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93
Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2003, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
When I gave my presentation to the ACM I just created an html page, increased the font size in the browser, and scrolled through the items. I've done my share of PowerPoint slides, but I'd rather have a way to generate slides using reST. Kevin Altis said he's toying around with something to do this.
If you'd like, you can have my front-end to PythonPoint. (I created a dead-simple half-reSTed syntax to avoid the drudgery of writing XML.) Once Kevin does his work, it should be simple to modify my front-end to write out reST.
Sure, I'd like to take a look at that. Thanks. I also see that Richard Jones has a pythonpoint writer in his docutils sandbox. Has anyone used it? -- Patrick K. O'Brien Orbtech http://www.orbtech.com/web/pobrien ----------------------------------------------- "Your source for Python programming expertise." -----------------------------------------------
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:
If you'd like, you can have my front-end to PythonPoint. (I created a dead-simple half-reSTed syntax to avoid the drudgery of writing XML.) Once Kevin does his work, it should be simple to modify my front-end to write out reST.
Sure, I'd like to take a look at that. Thanks. I also see that Richard Jones has a pythonpoint writer in his docutils sandbox. Has anyone used it?
Here you go. I'm including my PyCon objects presentation so you can see how it works. (Haven't tried using Richard's bit; I wrote mine a year ago when reST was really in the Dark Ages. ;-) (It'll be available on my web site Real Soon Now....) -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:58:44 -0400, Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> wrote:
"In many ways, it's a dull language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages & styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it." --Tim Peters on Python, 16 Sep 93
This is, I think, a quote that should be used in marketing Python. It's a familiar, powerful, *comfortable* language, with all the power required to create full, powerful applications quickly and easily. Take away the fear ("it's a dull language") and promote its power.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Aahz wrote:
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2003, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
When I gave my presentation to the ACM I just created an html page, increased the font size in the browser, and scrolled through the items. I've done my share of PowerPoint slides, but I'd rather have a way to generate slides using reST. Kevin Altis said he's toying around with something to do this.
If you'd like, you can have my front-end to PythonPoint. (I created a dead-simple half-reSTed syntax to avoid the drudgery of writing XML.) Once Kevin does his work, it should be simple to modify my front-end to write out reST.
I want it! I almost wrote one six month ago and stopped halfway due to lack of time. -- Nicolas Chauvat http://www.logilab.com - "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" - LOGILAB, Paris (France)
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