Threads for fxn | Lobsters

2

tobym 5 years ago | link | on: TermNote - Write Ruby or YAML, get keynote in your terminal

This is very similar to pandoc’s approach. See http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demos.html and the source file that can be converted into a slideshow: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/demo/SLIDES.
1. 2
  
  fxn 5 years ago | link
  
  Also similar to Terminal Keynote https://github.com/fxn/tkn (disclaimer, it is mine :).
  1. 1
    
    krainboltgreene 5 years ago | link
    
    FYI, I had to switch to CodeRay, because pygments doesn’t work on Mac OS X standard ruby implementation.
    1. 1
      
      steveklabnik 5 years ago | link
      
      gem install pygmentize
      1. 1
        
        krainboltgreene 5 years ago | link
        
        Had I known about that I might have originally used it. Somehow it didn’t come up first in searches. CodeRay isn’t causing any issues right now, my biggest issue is io-console not working on 1.8.
        
        If coderay stops being a solution I’ll probably switch to that. Thanks.
2. 1
  
  krainboltgreene 5 years ago | link
  
  Interesting that they split it by header. I wouldn’t have thought of that.

1
tobym 5 years ago | link | on: Terminal Keynote - A hack for terminal-based talks
Couldn’t get it to run because of some problems building the dependencies (for which I do not fault the author at all, mind you, given that it’s a total hack).

However, it seems like much more work to build this than it is to just write those text files in a normal editor and export code to html. Here’s how to do it in vim:
```
:TOhtml
```
To be fair, that method is flawed because it just creates a single HTML file, which is not the same as a slideshow.

Another alternative is to export code to RTF and just paste that in Keynote or Powerpoint or Impress. You can do this using highlight[0]. Here’s an example that works on a mac, (change pbcopy to xclip if you’re on linux; also note that you can easily do this on a text selection from inside of vim):
```
cat codes.scala | highlight -S scala -O rtf -k Menlo -K 20 | pbcopy
```
If that’s still too much, check out pandoc[1], which can convert a markdown file into a Slidy slideshow[2] (or S5, or some others, though I prefer the minimalist style of Slidy).
```
pandoc -t slidy -s slideshow.md -o slideshow.html
```
One issue with this is that you just get very basic code formatting. No problem, just add highlight.js[3] to the generated html file. It supports 52 languages out of the box, will guess the language in the <code> block, and will highlight them automatically (yes, you can specify the language if necessary).
```
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://yandex.st/highlightjs/7.2/styles/default.min.css">
<script src="http://yandex.st/highlightjs/7.2/highlight.min.js"></script>
<script>hljs.initHighlightingOnLoad();</script>
```
[0] http://www.andre-simon.de/doku/highlight/en/highlight.html

[1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc

[2] http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2

[3] http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/
1. 1
  
  fxn 5 years ago | link
  
  I have documented installation instructions now. Thanks!

1

jamesbritt 5 years ago | link | on: Terminal Keynote - A hack for terminal-based talks

Is OSX only?
1. 3
  
  fxn edited 5 years ago | link
  
  In principle the script is portable. The very first commit shelled out to run stty, but now the terminal is configured by the standard Ruby (1.9) library io/console.
2. 1
  
  steveklabnik 5 years ago | link
  
  This is a total hack. It is procedural, uses a global variable, it has not been parametrized or generalized in any way. It was tailor-made for what I exactly wanted but some people in the audience asked for the script. Even if it is quick and dirty I am very happy to share it so I have commented the source code and there you go!
  
  I don’t see anything super OSX specific, but what I mean is that it might be, since that’s what computer fxn was using.
  1. 1
    
    jamesbritt 5 years ago | link
    
    I was partly wondering because if it was then a tag of “osx” would be handy. Anyways, i’d have look at this more closely to see if it’s usable in some form on ubuntu bash in gnome-terminal.