DokuWiki S5 Slideshows

Creating Slideshows from DokuWiki pages

using the Slidy plugin

S5 - Introduction

S5 is a web based slide show tool
Created by Eric Meyer
Based on CSS and JavaScript
Works in all modern Browsers

S5 in DokuWiki

can be installed as a plugin
allows you to create presentations as DokuWiki page
using DokuWiki's syntax
The presentation is a normal DokuWiki page

How to create

Just follow some rules
- Start with a H1 headline → the welcome page
- H2 headlines create new slides
- A horizontal line switches to the handout (only displayed in print)
Adding the ~~SLIDESHOW~~ will create a link to the presentation mode

Additional content for handout

How it works

The plugin uses a new feature called pluggable renderers
DokuWiki's parser outputs the parsed syntax with the use of so called renderers
The S5 plugin inherits from the default XHTML renderer and adds Eric Meyer's CSS and JavaScript Magic

Customizing

Choose from seven premade themes or put your own in the template ui directory

Summary

No more PowerPoint
Creating presentations in DokuWiki is easy
Download the plugin at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:s5