Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
Thanks Sitaram and Moritz! -Tom
Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
On 12/31/2015 04:26 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >> Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: >> >> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf >> >> is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and >> the slide formatting! >> >> Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? >> >> So far the best I have found that meets my needs is using asciidoc >> input with Asciidoctor's Deck.js backend. I think I can convert from >> the generated html to pdf but can't say for sure yet, but it is the >> good looks of his slides that I'm primarily interested in. > > Looks like Beamer (latex+beamer). The meta data of the PDF agrees, it says "LaTeX with Beamer class version 3.10" in the "creator" field. Cheers, Moritz
Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
On 31/12/15 21:26, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >>> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf > ... >>> Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? > ... >> Looks like Beamer (latex+beamer). >> >> An easy step to beamer is to use pandoc, which is what I use when I need >> to make a presentation. Though it's not as flexible as writing latex >> directly, it's pretty decent because with pandoc, your input is just >> markdown. Much (much!) easier on the fingers and on the eyes :) > > Great info, Sitaram, thanks so much! > > ...Oops, I see several paths leading there. Any hints on your work flow? The basic stuff is fairly simple, and the pandoc site has decent help. It's basically markdown, except a simple (non-standard-markdown) syntax for the title and the author. Then you run a command like `pandoc -i foo.mkd -o foo.pdf -t beamer -V theme:Darmstadt [...]`. Note that pandoc can't do things like vertical split slides, etc. (AFAIK), and I've never really tried to figure out how to change the colors, fonts, etc., either. The nice thing about pandoc is that it can write several different formats; see [1] for an example that uses the "HTML Slidy" format. (The pictures are done by graphviz, not pandoc, as you will probably guess when you see it.) [1]: http://gitolite.com/gcs.html
Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf ... >> Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? ... > Looks like Beamer (latex+beamer). > > An easy step to beamer is to use pandoc, which is what I use when I need > to make a presentation. Though it's not as flexible as writing latex > directly, it's pretty decent because with pandoc, your input is just > markdown. Much (much!) easier on the fingers and on the eyes :) Great info, Sitaram, thanks so much! ...Oops, I see several paths leading there. Any hints on your work flow? Best regards, -Tom
Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: > Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: > > https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf > > is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and > the slide formatting! > > Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? > > So far the best I have found that meets my needs is using asciidoc > input with Asciidoctor's Deck.js backend. I think I can convert from > the generated html to pdf but can't say for sure yet, but it is the > good looks of his slides that I'm primarily interested in. Looks like Beamer (latex+beamer). An easy step to beamer is to use pandoc, which is what I use when I need to make a presentation. Though it's not as flexible as writing latex directly, it's pretty decent because with pandoc, your input is just markdown. Much (much!) easier on the fingers and on the eyes :) (Not sure how strict we are on "off-topic" stuff so I will stop here!)
Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"
Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and the slide formatting! Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? So far the best I have found that meets my needs is using asciidoc input with Asciidoctor's Deck.js backend. I think I can convert from the generated html to pdf but can't say for sure yet, but it is the good looks of his slides that I'm primarily interested in. Thanks. Best regards, -Tom
