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SPIP - Simple Presentations In Perlby Crian (Curate) |
on Feb 28, 2005 at 21:00 UTC ( [id://435191]=CUFP: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Hi fellow monks, I have a new project, SPIP, and I just put the first version online now. SPIP is a Perl program that creates XHTML/CSS presentations. I wrote SPIP because I wanted to use the presentation software from Redmond not any longer. And I wanted my presentations in a simple form I could put on my web space after lecturing the presentation. Also I wanted to have my presentation source in pure ASCII files and not in any proprietary format. And last but not least it was fun to write SPIP and to see how relatively easy such a thing can be done. The Perl modules XML::Simple and HTML::Template have helped me a lot, so that I could devote myself to program the SPIP core. For documentation it suggested itself to write a SPIP presentation. You can find it at http://www.duehl.de/christian/perl/spip/html/index.html (its an english page). SPIP itself can you find at the german page http://www.duehl.de/christian/perl/spip.html or you download http://www.duehl.de/christian/perl/projekte/spip_1.0.zip directly. For playing around with SPIP it perhaps would be the best to copy that sample presentation in the directory documentation and change this and that. I hope SPIP could be usefull for some of you too. Here are some highlights:
Of course a lot of the features and gimmicks of Power Point like cross fading, arrows, sounds and so on are not in SPIP. If you need that, don't use SPIP but Power Point instead. Thats why there is the word "simple" in the name of SPIP ;-) For my demands SPIP is just fine. Please excuse potential spelling, grammar, or what ever errors I may made here or in my presentation, I am not a native english speaker (nor writer).
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