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PyCon rst2odp offer

2009.09.23 Wed 10:22 A GMT-07
If anyone is considering using rst2s5, please give rst2odp 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, s

rst2odp - "I'm not dead yet"

2009.08.12 Wed 11:07 A GMT-07
While I was off at OSCON, it turns out that some people at the PyOhio conference had just found out about rst2odp. Sadly it didn't work for them. Happily they had a sprint to fix their issues. Then they even gave a lightning talk on rst2dop. And

Easy slideshow creation with rst2odp

2009.03.16 Mon 9:27 P GMT-07
I've used rst2odp a few times now for slide generation. It does a pretty good job. It's still lacking some features that the s5 stuff has, but has other features. Notably missing is footers (the support is in there in the backend library I just do

Configuring Linux fonts (kde, OOo, gtk+, java, emacs and firefox)

2008.12.22 Mon 7:09 P GMT-07
(Mainly notes for myself). Since I switched over to Gentoo and am running Awesome for a window manager, I no longer have the Ubuntu fonts, cursors are consistent thing going on. Here's some notes, (gentoo wiki used to have this somewhere but it's g

How to create an Impress (OpenOffice.org) Template

2008.12.04 Thu 11:24 P GMT-07
You want to use Impress, but can't find any good templates? Put your creative skills to use and create your own? But how? I'll explain here (since the OOo docs don't really explain it in one coherent chunk), it's really easy. Create a new blank p

[ANN] rst2odp - Convert rst to OpenOffice Impress

2008.12.02 Tue 3:34 P GMT-07
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 pr

of OpenOffice, Symphony, KOffice, rst and python

2007.10.11 Thu 12:13 P GMT-07
Just a few (rambling) thoughts on OpenOffice I've been having as of late. My daughter just started Kindergarten and my wife is now caught up in the PTA. So unlike the tech world, which tends to revolve around excel spreadsheets, the PTA revolves ar