Working on it
So I got started on putting together the HTML deriving from the PowerPoint deriving from “Print and Screen: The Collision of Print and Electronic Publishing,” which is the quasi-famous talk I blogged about yesterday.
It is truly astonishing how long it takes to type out a lecture. I don’t see why college professors ever bother. When would they have time to do anything else?
I got through only six slides of eighteen, I’m afraid. I’ll try to hack through some more tomorrow.
PowerPoint HTML turns out to be less horrible than I had feared. (Word’s is dreadful, not that that’s news to anyone.) Get rid of the style attributes, put class attribute values in quotes, change div tags to something intelligible, and the result is downright usable. PP even exports Unicode rather than dumbing down special characters. I appreciate that; I spent enough time as a typesetter to value smart quotes and em dashes.