Markdown Discuss - Feb 2007 - S5 slide show system

S5 - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ - is an html-based slide-show
system. It produces professional-looking slideshows from text with a
little xml markup.

Has anyone tried using Markdown to generate S5 slide-shows? I think
this would be a pretty neat system. I'm thinking a level-1 header
could be the slideshow title, and level-2 headers could define
individual slides.

Any thoughts?
- Dan

-- 
"I know nothing, understand less, & most of that is wrong."

      Daniel Winterstein
      Edinburgh

On 02.02.2007, at 13:08, Daniel Winterstein wrote:
> S5 - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ - is an html-based slide-show
> system. It produces professional-looking slideshows from text with a
> little xml markup.
>
> Has anyone tried using Markdown to generate S5 slide-shows? I think
> this would be a pretty neat system. I'm thinking a level-1 header
> could be the slideshow title, and level-2 headers could define
> individual slides.
There is an [S5 bundle for TextMate][1] which I have used once. You  
can write your slides as a markdown file with a little added syntax  
and generate a preview or convert to HTML.

If you are not using TextMate or are not on a Mac, you can surely  
adapt the Ruby script used by TextMate and adapt it to your needs.

 From the Bundle Help:
> Getting Started
> The best way to start a new presentation is to use the ?New from  
> Template? option from the ?File? menu, choosing ?S5 Presentation?  
> from the ?S5? menu. This will give you a basic presentation file  
> which you can then start modifying.
> To quickly enter a new slide, type ?slide? and hit the tab key. If  
> you just want to create the dividing marker inbetween slides, type  
> ?cut? and hit the tab key.
> The formatting of the slides themselves is Markdown, which is  
> pretty ideal for entering lots of bullet lists and headings. S5  
> does support most any HTML you enter into the slide as well,  
> including images. Refer to the S5 project sitefor further  
> documentation on writing slides.

Cheers,
Soryu


[1]: http://macromates.com/svn/Bundles/trunk/Bundles/S5.tmbundle/

Pandoc can generate S5 from Markdown.  See example #8 in
http://sophos.berkeley.edu/macfarlane/pandoc/examples.html

JM

+++ Daniel Winterstein [Feb 02 07 12:08 ]:
> S5 - http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ - is an html-based slide-show
> system. It produces professional-looking slideshows from text with a
> little xml markup.
> 
> Has anyone tried using Markdown to generate S5 slide-shows? I think
> this would be a pretty neat system. I'm thinking a level-1 header
> could be the slideshow title, and level-2 headers could define
> individual slides.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> - Dan
> 
> -- 
> "I know nothing, understand less, & most of that is wrong."
> 
>       Daniel Winterstein
>       Edinburgh
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On 2/2/07, Daniel Winterstein <daniel.winterstein at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone tried using Markdown to generate S5 slide-shows? I think
> this would be a pretty neat system. I'm thinking a level-1 header
> could be the slideshow title, and level-2 headers could define
> individual slides.
>
> Any thoughts?
It's definitely on the TODO list for Maruku.


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