From: Guenter M. <mi...@us...> - 2010-09-29 08:39:05
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On 2010-09-28, Stefan Merten wrote: > 8 minutes ago David Goodger wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:33, Stefan Merten <sm...@oe...> wrote: >>> 19 minutes ago David Goodger wrote: >>>> Seems highly inelegant to me. Why not use transitions to break up >>>> slides? >>> Well, I made such a proposal already. Günter rightly said that it >>> would be difficult to remove the transitions from other writer's >>> output. (I said it requires a special style sheet to make the transition invisible in other formats. If this is difficult or not depends on the context.) >> Regardless, I think it's the obvious, elegant, and correct choice. > Günter? I agree. This should be the default for slide writers. But the Docutils philosophy (if I remember right) is to "make easy tasks easy and complex tasks possible" and there are valid user cases where a transition is "in the way" or not applicable. Therefore, I propose implementing *in addition* a second, more flexible approach to indicate a "slide break". This way, corner cases (which for some users might be the vital) can be solved. Could this be solved by a general rst syntax for "page break"? Günter |