[Doc-SIG] Re: [marketing-python] 2.3 release - proposed plan

Patrick K. O'Brien pobrien@orbtech.com
25 Apr 2003 09:15:21 -0500


Aahz <aahz@pythoncraft.com> writes:

> [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.

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?

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Patrick K. O'Brien
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