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Last month, when I went to DC Python Users Group meeting, Steve Howell gave a presentation on Yaml, Yet Another Markup Language. Since it is really horrible to type things in XML, I found the idea of Yaml very nice since it looks very pythonic, with indentation and colons to represent blocks. I really liked Steve’s idea about using Yaml for making presentations.
So, I borrowed Steve’s Pure Python Yaml Parser and his SlideShow code, modified the code a bit for my taste and voila! It is so easy to make presentations now. Here’s my first presentation using Yaml.
I love this! It works from Windows and Unix. Should work wherever Python is available. And it is accessible, being all done in HTML.
I think I should write my high-level outlines and datastructures using Yaml, learn the Python parser a bit more and then figure out code to convert it to multiple formats. Why? I can get my work done using VI and a command line.