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# Use Restructured Text (ReST) to power your presentations
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- date
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2010-06-25
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- category
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tech
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Wednesday, we give a presentation, with some friends, about the CouchDB
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Database, to [the Toulouse local LUG](http://www.toulibre.org). Thanks a
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lot to all the presents for being there, it was a pleasure to talk about
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this topic with you. Too bad the season is over now an I quit Toulouse
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next year.
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During our brainstorming about the topic, we used some paper, and we
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wanted to make a presentation the simpler way. First thing that come to
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my mind was using [restructured
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text](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), so I've wrote a simple
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file containing our different bullet points. In fact, there is quite
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nothing to do then, to have a working presentation.
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So far, I've used [the rst2pdf
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program](http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/), and a simple template, to
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generate output. It's probably simple to have similar results using
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latex + beamer, I'll try this next time, but as I'm not familiar with
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latex syntax, restructured text was a great option.
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Here are [the final PDF
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output](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/couchdb/couchdb.pdf),
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[Rhe ReST
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source](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/couchdb/couchdb.rst),
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[the theme
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used](http://files.lolnet.org/alexis/rst-presentations/slides.style),
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and the command line to generate the PDF:
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rst2pdf couchdb.rst -b1 -s ../slides.style
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