[Docutils-develop] rst2slides: Breaking up into many slides

[Stefan M. <sm...@oe...>]

Hi!

While creating just another set of slides using reST I had the
following idea.

Sometimes you have the problem that you have a lot of content which
nicely fits into one topic (i.e. section) but it is too much content
for a single slide. A common approach then is to break up the too much
content at some points and create numbered sub slides::

  A long topic (1/3)
  ==================

  * First point

  * Second point

    * Something to note

    * Another something

  A long topic (2/3)
  ==================

  * Third point

  A long topic (3/3)
  ==================

  * n-th point

Especially when we want to have a reST document which is nice as
slides and nice in other writers then the intermediate subject titles
are bad.

This could be remedied by a special role::

  .. role:: slide-break

  A long topic
  ============

  * First point

  * Second point

    * Something to note

    * Another something

      :slide-break:`\ `

  * Third point

    :slide-break:`\ `

  * n-th point

This would be invisible in other writers but for a slide writer the
special empty string with role `slide-break` would command to break up
a slide here including repeating the title - may be with some
auto-numbering as shown above.

Well, you can do this with block level classes but you need to be
careful to not break the <bullet_list>::

  A long topic
  ============

  * First point

  * Second point

    * Something to note

    * Another something

      .. class:: slide-break

  * Third point

    .. class:: slide-break

  * n-th point

Frankly I was astonished that the class directive affects the
less indented bullet following it...

What do you think?


						Grüße

						Stefan