[Chicago] {Slightly OT}: From Markup To Powerpoint?

[Tim Daneliuk]

Robare, Phil wrote:

> Tim Daneliuk on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:19 PM wrote
> 
>>I am a huge fan of Restructured Text.  However, I often find
>>myself in the situation where I need to distill my notes into 
>>a Powerpoint deck. Is there a tool that can can produce 
>>Powerpoint from RST markup? Failing that, is there another 
>>markup tool that could do this? I hate having to fiddle with
>>interactive slide tuning.  I'd much prefer a kind of canned 
>>way to do this, perhaps under makefile control.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure how it would fit with RST, but S5 is a toolkit (javascript
> + stylesheets) from http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ that lets you
> create slideshows that are XHTML.
> 
> Phil

Awrrighty then - I followed the (many) recommendations to try s5.
It works as advertised but I am struggling with something I hope
someone else has the "quick fix" for:  I cannot seem to get RST
to recognize new s5 themes properly.  I copy the new theme files
(that I got from the s5 site) to:

  C:\Program Files\Python\Lib\site-packages\docutils\writers\s5_html\themes\new-theme-name


Then I run:

   rst2s5.py --theme new-theme-name myfile.txt myfile.html

This produces and html file that does *not* properly pickup the new theme
even though that theme *has* been copied to ./ui

Ideas anyone?

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