Re: org 2 openoffice impress converter

[Rick Moynihan <rick@calicojack.co.uk>]

Bastien Guerry wrote:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be great to create a presentation in emacs; at least the first
>> outlining? 
> 
> Sounds nice.
> 
>> So, what do you think about an org 2 openoffice impress converter...?
>> The exporting process is probably pretty similar to the html-exporting
>> procedure!?
> 
> I think you might be interested in the S5 Slide Show system:
> 
>   http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
> 
>   S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and
>   JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have
>   a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is
>   very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible. Anyone with
>   even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the
>   markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular
>   needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show
>   theme. It's totally simple, and it's totally standards-driven.
> 
> See the quite impressive demonstration here:
> 
>   http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html
> 
> I think it would be *much* easier to go that way, since the export
> format will just be a subset of HTML.  Unless someone points to a very
> simplistic example of ooimpress format, I'd rather not mix up with this.
> 
> Of course this rely on the yes-coming-soon! brand new exporter.  
> I will work on it this WE, maybe something good will come from this.
> 
> Play with S5 and let me know if you'd find it useful to have a S5
> exporter in Org.
> 

S5 has always appealed to me, so I think this is an excellent idea, and 
certainly a feature I could see people using.

R.