Here is an early release of tools for converting "VIM Outliner" files to slide shows. The VIM Outliner format will work with any text editor: It's an ASCII text file. Top level headings have no indentation, sub-headings are indented with tabs. A new slide is generated for each top-level heading.

This code is not yet "release quality".

• vo2xo.rb Converts to XOXO as usable with the S5 slide show software. Look at S5 and get the HTML prelude needed for an XOXO file.
• vo2html.rb Converts to a separate HTML page per slide, with a navigation bar per slide and you can click on any of the slide text to advance to the next slide.
• vo2odp.rb Converts to OpenDocument Presentation as usable with OpenOffice, and you can use OpenOffice to convert to PowerPoint.
• Outline.otl An example outline that can be converted to a slide show. Manipulate it with any text editor.

These require the Ruby language interpreter and the "builder", "rubyzip" and "ruby-mp3info" gems.

"VIM Outliner" originated with the "VIM" editor, which is an implementation of the Berkeley Unix VI editor with the addition of macros. It's Open Source, but I would not recommend that you learn to edit using VI if you haven't already done so. There are more modern tools.

Surprise! These are licensed under GPL 3! I said it's an early release! The LICENSE text (inside the .rb files) will probably change. I'm looking for a way to specify that the right to use a later GPL version than 3 with my code may not be removed by anyone other than me. This has not been through legal review.