[Chicago] {Slightly OT}: From Markup To Powerpoint?

[David Terrell]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 04:18:47PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> I am a huge fan of Restructured Text.  However, I often find myself
> in the situation where I need to distill my notes into a Powerpoint deck.
> Is there a tool that can can produce Powerpoint from RST markup?
> Failing that, is there another markup tool that could do this?
> I hate having to fiddle with interactive slide tuning.  I'd much prefer
> a kind of canned way to do this, perhaps under makefile control.

If you're not wedded to powerpoint to do presentations, try S5
[http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/] and this:

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/slide-shows.html