Crafting Presentations

I've been using AsciiDoc to build my presentations for a couple of years now. I know in Asciidoctor Backends we have backends for dzslides, deck.js and reveal.js. What I'd like to do is to create a set of components, macros, and / or extensions that will work with all the backends, we'll probably have to rework the backends, but that's not that big of a deal. What this will allow us to do is to create the presentation in AsciiDoc and export to any of the HTML5 presentations, and possibly flat xml documents for OpenOffice / LibreOffice (and maybe even PowerPoint, or at least make that easier).

Another very cool idea is to only use one AsciiDoc file for your presentation needs (or do multiple includes so you can easily share slides with colleague): outline (this is pretty easy with sections already), presentation, notes, and printed pages. An idea about printed presentations I came across from http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint is to print your notes with the slides so you're basically creating two sets of materials. I think we can do better than that. If you're already in AsciiDoc it shouldn't be terribly difficult to include more information and actually create a brochure / pamphlet from that document and create a PDF or an ePub document from your presentation materials. This also makes it easier to practice as you have all of your notes and presentation in one place.