Creating Slideshows from DokuWiki pages

using the Slidy plugin

• Slidy is a web based slide show tool
• Created by Dave Ragget
• Based on CSS and JavaScript
• Works in all modern Browsers

• 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

• 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 ~~SLIDYSHOW~~ will create a link to the presentation mode

• Supports mathematical expressions such as `(x^2+y^2)/z^3`

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

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

• Style blue
• Style green

• No more PowerPoint
• Creating presentations in DokuWiki is easy
• Download (soon) the plugin at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/plugin:slidy