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PyCon rst2odp offer
If anyone is considering using rst2s5, please give rst2odp (odp is the format that OOo uses) a try. If your slides work on rst2s5 but not on rst2odp, let me know and I'll try to address that. I've been using it for a while now, but I got some feedback that others have had issues, so I'd like to address those.
Why rst2odp? Template support, console presenter mode (supports presenter only notes), export to pdf/html/ppt, great fonts, no reloading firefox, tweak final output in OOo (though I never do this), beautiful code highlighting (via pygments). Here's a sample of rst2odp output (exported to pdf).
ps - Preliminary table support just landed in svn!
Nice but can you also do an interactive live presentation from it by
running Python code? You can with crst2s5 ;-)
André -
Would you use it if it had a console? :) (I'm sure it's just a simple
matter of programming an OOo plugin. Can't comment as to the effort it
would require)
Actually good job with your efforts, crunchy seems cool.
I've messed around with Bruce previously which had embedded Python console
support. In practice (during the actual preso), it was kind of a pain
because of the feeble editor, live coding typos and miss-clicks with the
mouse causing the slides to advance.
If I do live coding in a preso now, I'll just use Emacs with the fonts set
to gigantic. Emacs is a nice environment for messing around with Python.
(Note I've a pykeyview project for displaying keystrokes during
presos/demos).
I'm a open source believer and standards evangelist but I must to say
OOImpress sucks.
and by the way, to have "interactive live presentation" take a view to the
great impressive an its "info scripts"
By "interactive live presentation" I meant showing and executing Python
code from within the slide. Matt is right about being able to do this with
Bruce; however "Impressive" does not appear to be able to do interactive
Python presentations. Crunchy can :-). And with the possibility to use
the embedded editor and run the program at the click of a button, typing
problems are minimized. (So, I would not want to use a separate console -
others might).
Tin - what don't you like about impress? The format? The implementation?
As the rst2pdf author, I must say your slides look better than rst2pdf's so
I must get back to improving them :-D