reveal.js + external markdown mixed with some bash awesomeness to automated routine presentation tasks
- a copy of reveal.js git repository from https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ (Location to be marked as BASE) (it is assumed that $BASE/reveal.js will contain git clone of reveal.js)
- Chrome / Chromium browser as its --app feature is extensively used.
- a centeral directory to keep reusable resources such as images marked in RESOURCES (optional to keep images there)
- a index.html to be placed as template in $BASE which will contain a #markdownfilename# which will be replaced with acutal markdown filename at setup time.
- python 2.7 is what is used to test this. if you are using python 3 then you need to modify python simplehttpserver command (2 places in whole script)
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git clone the repository to some location in the system.
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modify the present script with proper location variables. (BASE, BROWSER, needs to be modified specifically as per environment)
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either place the git clone location into PATH or place present into path directory I prefer ~/bin/
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give execute permission to present script by chmod 755 present in the location.
[steps above are written considering the person is well versed with commandline if you think details are need feel free to add and create a pull request]
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perform steps from SETUP section
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create a directory at any location on system
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create your markdown file. (slides are horizontally seperated by --- and vertical seperation is by -- )
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Once markdown file is created run following command
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present setup markdown.md (if presentation.md then this command is not needed) This step will do all the necesaary linking and place a index.html
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present This step will launch browser with proper parameters which you can just maximize. The usual slide notes and stuff all works by default as per the template.
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present print This step will launch browser with proper parameters to provide printing. All you need to do is ctrl + P and save as PDF.
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present clean This step will clean all the stuff that present setup performed.
I have taken care as to not harm the computer by this code but if something happens i am not to be held responsible.