Halibut is great for writing documentation... But imho: - it can be smaller - does not supports pictures - doesnt works for presentations
----- Original message ----- > > > I am actually a student that used to work on this stuff. In our > > > research group, we were mainly interested in transforming the arXiv ( > > > www.arxiv.org) to XHTML + MathML via LaTeXML ( > > > http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/ ) > > > > What you are doing is a truly evil thing. A certainly interesting > > project, from the point of view of trying to understand how and why > > would any human being take up such an abominable task. > >>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 12:34:52PM +0200, Uriel wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm looking for a minimally sane way to generate presentation > > > > > > slides, ideally using something similar to markdown and > > > > > > capable of generating decent-looking html (and hopefully) pdf. > > > > Uriel, have you looked at halibut? > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/ > > I use it for a couple of projects, though I have a shell script to > adjust the html to my own needs. The markdown is tolerably easy to learn, > the license is liberal, and it is (meant to be) fairly portable C. > > I don't like it exactly, but it's the least obnoxious thing I've found > for generating multiple forms of documentation. > > But, having rarely seen presentation slides with ( SNR > 0 ), I don't > entirely understand what you are looking for. > > --Noah > > >
