Is there a tool (or a chain) that would allow one to input wikitext and output either
* something slidelike (ODP or PDF, suitably formatted) * something that easily converts to something slidelike (e.g., TeX beamer, HTML for Slidy)
Why I ask:
I have several long pages on a governmental MediaWiki that I used as rough drafts for a presentation, which (after favorable review) I'd like to turn into "real slides." Unfortunately the admins of that MW are notoriously savage, so my chances of getting something installed on the wiki instance, e.g. the mw-slidy extension
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Mw-slidy
, are negligible (though I'll ask). Hence I probably need something that converts offline (i.e., not on a MediaWiki); I seek, e.g., a commandline tool such that I can do something like
$ magic < input.mediawiki > output.pdf
One option is Eclipse Mylyn's WikiText module
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Incubator/WikiText
but that seems rather heavyweight for this task, since I'm not currently using Eclipse for anything else. I'd prefer something like Deplate
http://deplate.sourceforge.net/
but that only inputs the markups={rdoc, viki}, which both seem quite remote from (MediaWiki's) wikitext: i.e., creating a wikitext -> {rdoc, viki} converter seems like more work than writing HTML or TeX by hand.
Am I missing something? Care to recommend a candidate app, or Something Completely Different?
Your suggestions are appreciated, Tom Roche Tom_Roche@pobox.com