Have you seen my slide generator tools?

[kyleabeauchamp]

They're a work in progress, but I think it would be pretty simple to test.

https://github.com/kyleabeauchamp/copied-io-2013-slides

It's based on the 2013 and 2012 google IO slideshow stuff:

https://code.google.com/p/io-2012-slides/

http://io-2012-slides.googlecode.com/git/template.html#1

[kyleabeauchamp]

The key file in my code is scripts/md/render.py

[kyleabeauchamp]

I think the main advantage is the nice stylesheets that Google created for their slides. Let me know what you think.

[kyleabeauchamp]

So I've looked at about ~5 or 6 of the current HTML / JS slideshow tools, and my opinion is that the Google IO 2012 is the nicest looking of all. That's why I started with their code.

[rmcgibbo]

I'll take a look. I'm just using markdown via pandoc to (dzslides) html5 right now. The formatting options are pretty limited, but I like writing the slides in markdown.

[rmcgibbo]

I really didn't look heavily at other tools, so thanks for the pointer.

[rmcgibbo]

Do you have an example of the html output that I can look at?

[kyleabeauchamp]

Just added out.html

[kyleabeauchamp]

I haven't figure out a good way to handle image sizing, though. The markdown image command doesn't give size options. I think the best way to handle it is by using an inline HTML image tag.

[kyleabeauchamp]

I somehow just broke my mathjax support.

Five minutes ago, it was working. In particular, the math used the same theme as the overall document, so math looked much better than old-school latex. (You still use inline latex to write it, though)

[rmcgibbo]

Yeah, I was using inline img tags too. I think its the only way, and frankly its fine -- not that many more characters than the markdown tag.

[kyleabeauchamp]

OK I checked in a fix for the MathJax. I'm not sure how things ended up broken after working...

[rmcgibbo]

Thanks! It works for me too.

[kyleabeauchamp]

You should watch the google video about their 2012 slides. There's a lot of neat stuff that we get for free.

[rmcgibbo]

Watching it now. The way the markdown is written is a little different than the pandoc pipeline I was using.  — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone

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You should watch the google video about their 2012 slides. There's a lot of neat stuff that we get for free.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rmcgibbo/group_meeting_april22/issues/1#issuecomment-16679763

[rmcgibbo]

Kyle, is your pipeline using the slide_config.js file? How do you get the intro slide?

[kyleabeauchamp]

So I disabled the intro slide. I am still using the slide_config.js, but I gutted most of its features.

I didn't like the way they had to use both the slide_config.js and the markdown / HTML to define the content. I thought it made more sense to have a slideshow be defined by a single file.

Obviously there might be a better way to do things, so let me know.

[kyleabeauchamp]

My reasoning was that I wanted everything to go in a single MD file.

[rmcgibbo]

I agree that having all of the content in markdown is preferable. I think I'm going to stick with dzslides for now. I do like the look of this slide deck, but I think this needs a little bit more before it'll work for me.

Maybe next week, after I give this group meeting, I'll start hacking on this. Could be a fun project.

[kyleabeauchamp]

Sounds good, we'll chat next week to see whether this is something that could be useful / feasible.

In the meantime:

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/kyleabeauchamp/copied-io-2013-slides/blob/master/rmg.html

[rmcgibbo]

I got the google slides to work for me today, just by hacking around. I'll post an update soon.