Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
> On Sep 17, 2017, at 5:34 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > Did anyone consider to implement something like sketch-n-sketch for Racket > picts? > > https://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/ > > The idea is to combine interactive manipulation and programmatic construction > in an intelligent

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-17 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 16/09/2017 16:47, Daniel Brunner wrote: I switched to slideshow/pict recently but it takes a lot of time for me to prepare the presentation due to my missing skills in using pict. That's also the major stumbling block for me. Whenever I have to prepare a presentation, it's just not the rig

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-17 Thread Konrad Hinsen
On 16/09/2017 21:48, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: I've been hacking on a way to make *simpler* slideshow presentations, which I'll actually present briefly at Racketcon next month. The idea is to take something plaintext and turn it into slides, so you don't have to be a pict master. I am tryin

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-16 Thread Andrew Gwozdziewycz
I've been hacking on a way to make *simpler* slideshow presentations, which I'll actually present briefly at Racketcon next month. The idea is to take something plaintext and turn it into slides, so you don't have to be a pict master. I am trying to work in how to include slides that are Picts,

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-16 Thread Robby Findler
In that case, it probably makes sense for you to use scribble to replace the LaTeX part of your workflow from the past. Specifically, if you've got a pict, you can just drop it into anywhere you would have put text in a scribble document and the right thing will happen. So hopefully this'll improve

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-16 Thread Daniel Brunner
Hello, when I used LaTeX/beamer I used beamer solely for the slides and produced a seperate handout with LaTeX. I switched to slideshow/pict recently but it takes a lot of time for me to prepare the presentation due to my missing skills in using pict. Best wishes, Daniel Am 16.09.2017 um 16:08

Re: [racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
When you watch the presentations of people who present with latex/beamer, you notice that most just excerpt the paper. This reduces the amount of time needed to prepare the presentation and the quality of the presentation at the same time. A paper/handout and a presentation are two completely dif

[racket-users] Racketeers and slide-show presentations

2017-09-16 Thread Gour
Hello! Racket language is deeply rooted in academia and used wildly in education, so, I hope, it's reasonable that Racketeers are often preparing slide-show presentations... In order to take an advantage of Racket's ecosystem I'd like to use it for such purpose and slide-show package is natural c