Markdown Discuss - Mar 2008 - Create Slide Shows (PowerPoint/KeyNote-Style) Using Markdown using the Slide Show (S9) Ruby Gem

Hello,

   I've published a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and
author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's
easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Yes, that's Markdown. (Textile is
supported too ;-)

   You can find two samples online in Markdown:

   o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/rest.text
   o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/microformats.text

   And the matching slide shows are online at:

   o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/rest.html
   o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/microformats.html

   Find out more about the Slide Show (S9) Ruby gem @
http://slideshow.rubyforge.org

   Questions and comments welcome.

  Cheers.


PS: Note, Slide Show (S9) is also compatible (works with) Opera Show.

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Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional - http://geraldbauer.wordpress.com

>  I've published a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and
>  author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's
>  easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Yes, that's Markdown. (Textile is
>  supported too ;-)
This is quite neat.  Impressively simple.

I liked the idea so much that I stole it for my wiki.

http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Slideshow_Demo -- formatted as a wiki page
http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Slideshow_Demo.code -- the source
http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Slideshow_Demo.slides -- as slides

If you have a page to play with:
http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Slideshow_Sandbox

The cool thing is that Markdown + the html templates is pretty much
all it takes.  (Apart from the templates, I only had to add 16 lines
of code to do the demo.)

BTW, what's the license (for the HTML part)?

 - yuri

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Ah, I thought S9 sounded familiar, but I was thinking of [S5][1] by
Eric Meyer. Looks like this is an adaptation of S5 that uses a browser
plugin rather than javascript for control. I never thought of using
Markdown to author slides like that though. Interesting.

[1]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Gerald Bauer <geraldbauer2007 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I've published a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and
>  author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's
>  easy-to-write and easy-to-read. Yes, that's Markdown. (Textile is
>  supported too ;-)
>
>    You can find two samples online in Markdown:
>
>    o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/rest.text
>    o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/svn/samples/microformats.text
>
>    And the matching slide shows are online at:
>
>    o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/rest.html
>    o http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/microformats.html
>
>    Find out more about the Slide Show (S9) Ruby gem @
>  http://slideshow.rubyforge.org
>
>    Questions and comments welcome.
>
>   Cheers.
>
>
>  PS: Note, Slide Show (S9) is also compatible (works with) Opera Show.
>
>  --
>  Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional - http://geraldbauer.wordpress.com
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