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

[m h <ses...@gm...>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:06 AM, David Goodger <go...@py...> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 16:05, Ben Finney <ben...@be...> wrote:
>> Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> writes:
>>> Could this be solved by a general rst syntax for "page break"?
>>
>> I think it will be difficult to make that useful unless it could be
>> arbitrarily inserted into the middle of a paragraph, list item, et
>> cetera, without otherwise affecting the semantic structure of those
>> elements.
>
> -1.
> Why would anyone want to start a new slide in the middle of a paragraph?
> Concrete examples, please -- this is getting ridiculous.
>

I apologize beforehand (maybe this is OT), but some people want
titleless slides, and hijacking transition has been very intuitive for
that.  I guess my point is that people have in their heads different
ideas of what slides consist of, look like and are able to do.  I'm
not sure rst is capable of catering to all those disjoint sets while
still:

* working with non slide writers
* have nice clean syntax
* being simpler to use than the native slideshow tools

IOW, rst has the first 80% handled for people.  That last 20% is the
hard part.  (I'm not sure it was what rst in it's current form was
designed for).

cheers,
-matt (rst2odp writer and frequent user)