Pydown – An HTML5 presentation builder written in Python

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55 points·isnowfy··10 comments

See also Landslide by Adam Zaplatel: https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

if you can't decide if you want deck.js, reveal.js plain html or bootstrap you can check out my project that is restructured text to html5 with pluggable post processors that allow you to generate any kind of presentations (you can switch to a new one when they become available ;)

http://marianoguerra.github.io/rst2html5/

here are some examples:

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/reveal.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/deck.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/outpu/impress.html

http://marianoguerra.github.com/rst2html5/output/bootstrap.h...

I really wish you could always use the scroll wheel on these.

I've been checking out a fair number of JS Presentation libraries lately, and I really prefer the ones that allow you to scroll, even if the transitions are horizontal.

Beside not being written in ruby, how is this different than keydown?

It doesn't looks like it is and the author has expressly stated that its inspired by Keydown

Right that's why I ask. Why rewrite it? Was the author bored? Is this a serious project?

Why not rewrite it? - it's a good exercise, gave him another arrow in his programming quiver and gives people who prefer python the option to use it in python rather than ruby.

It's not a rewrite. It's a translation.

And it's done because there are developers out there who know Python and don't know Ruby. For them having a Python version of some software means that they can more easily integrate it and change it if they need to.

Or even just use a runtime they already have installed.

reStructuredText to html PLUS live Python interpreter in the browser, from 4 years ago... http://aroberge.blogspot.ca/2009/09/upcoming-pycon-and-crst2...

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