Re: [dev] Presentation slides software

Halibut is great for writing documentation...

But imho:
- it can be smaller
- does not supports pictures
- doesnt works for presentations

----- Original message -----
> > > I am actually a student that used to work on this stuff. In our
> > > research group, we were mainly interested in transforming the arXiv (
> > > www.arxiv.org) to XHTML + MathML via LaTeXML (
> > > http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/ )
> >
> > What you are doing is a truly evil thing. A certainly interesting
> > project, from the point of view of trying to understand how and why
> > would any human being take up such an abominable task.
>  >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:52PM +0200, Uriel wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm looking for a minimally sane way to generate presentation
> > > > > > slides, ideally using something similar to markdown and
> > > > > > capable of generating decent-looking html (and hopefully) pdf.
>  >
>
> Uriel, have you looked at halibut?
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/
>
> I use it for a couple of projects, though I have a shell script to
> adjust the html to my own needs. The markdown is tolerably easy to learn,
> the license is liberal, and it is (meant to be) fairly portable C.
>
> I don't like it exactly, but it's the least obnoxious thing I've found
> for generating multiple forms of documentation.
>
> But, having rarely seen presentation slides with ( SNR > 0 ), I don't
> entirely understand what you are looking for.
>
> --Noah
>
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 08 2010 - 22:15:19 CET