Re: [Docutils-develop] Indicating slide boundaries

[Ryan K. <rya...@gm...>]

FYI, (I think this is in the rst2beamer docs, but just in case),

You can force an rst2beamer slide up a level (or possibly two),
through the use of dummy sections:

dummy
~~~~~

Slide Title
=========

- bullet 1
- bullet 2

I think this keeps the rst readable like Alan said, but also leads to
reasonable behavior from a beamer standpoint.  Only sections and
subsections whose titles != 'dummy' get converted to latex section and
subsection commands.

Ryan

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Alan G Isaac <ai...@am...> wrote:
> On 9/16/2010 2:32 PM, Stefan Merten wrote:
>>   my suggestion is to use any section which contains real
>> content as a slide. An obvious advantage would be that it also would
>> allow for slides at different levels. That is: You can have a
>> presentation with (leaf) slides at different levels which from my
>> experience makes sense sometimes. For instance I usually have slides
>> at the second level but a "thank you" slide is at first level.
>
>
> If the use of a ``slide`` attribute is handled as
> has been suggested, you could just add the right
> class to your thank-you slide.
>
> I am dubious about the wisdom of trying to duplicate
> all the functionality of say beamer.  The tradition for
> slides writers has been to treat some specified section
> level as the level for slides.  rst2beamer goes beyond
> this a bit and says the lowest leaf level is the level
> for slides.  This is nice and flexible, and in addition
> I believe it was the "best" decision (trading off
> flexibility, simplicity, and readability).
>
> Adding further flexibility, so that inconsistent leaf levels
> are all slide levels seems quite wrong to me.  No longer
> will a human reader of the reST file be able to visually
> determine what is a slide title.  A key point of reST imo
> is that the source is nicely human readable.
>
> If writers start supporting a ``slide`` class,
> this will imo provide adequate flexibility for
> determining what besides lowest-level leafs are slides.
>
> Alan
>
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