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[ANN] rst2odp - Convert rst to OpenOffice Impress
Goodbye S5. I might miss you. You were nice but you kind of died. And all the cool kids bought macs and moved on to keynote... But my slides weren't written in html, they were written in rst...
Enough with the silly talk. Here's a little side project I've been working on. Call it a preview release/alpha/developer release/whatever. It works right now (for some definition of working, ie, my old slides are rendered with it). Here's what it supports right now: S5 rst definitions (tiny/small/colors), images, source code highlighting (via pygments), outlines. It's lacking any mechanism for styling, the S5 incremental feature, testing other peoples slides, etc.
So I'm calling anyone who is interested in it (or people who have used rst2S5 and want to move on from S5). Try it out on your old slide shows and see if it works. Send me your feedback, let me know what you want, etc.
Download rst2odp here. (requires docutils/pygments/PIL).
update - Available through pypi or svn is here
Nice. I'll try it out. rst is really nice - the new pylons documentation
pdf is awesome. Maybe rst can solve the problem of so many different
mediums: word processing, slides, wiki, blogs, documentation, etc - it
would be nice to have "write once, print anywhere"
@John: I think there is already something what you call "write once, print
anywhere". I am using LaTeX/PdfTeX for everything, I can convert my file in
a lot of formats, .... and so on.
Nice work, but goshdarn it I didn't know rst2s5 was flailing - I've been
using it all over. What are the symptoms of its demise, is it just an
inactive project now?