From:
"Malte Dik" <address deleted>
Subject: wiki2beamer
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:49:35 +0100
Subject: wiki2beamer
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:49:35 +0100
Hi, wiki2beamer is a pretty convenient script (also packaged in Debian) to create latex-beamer-slides using a wiki-like syntax. It of course supports code- snippets, too (see section "CODE" in the man-page). I hope I could help, Malte
From:
"David Bremner" <address deleted>
Subject: Re: wiki2beamer
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:32:06 -0400
Subject: Re: wiki2beamer
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:32:06 -0400
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 07:49:35 +0100, Malte Dik <malte.dik@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > wiki2beamer is a pretty convenient script (also packaged in Debian) to create > latex-beamer-slides using a wiki-like syntax. It of course supports code- > snippets, too (see section "CODE" in the man-page). Thanks. It looks interesting, although maybe orthogonal to the use case here, since you still have to paste your code into the wikisrc. I believe asciidoc also has some presentation facilities using html/css. The produced slides look pretty nice. David
Date:
Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:05:29 +0100
From: "Stefano Zacchiroli" <address deleted>
Subject: why not listings?
From: "Stefano Zacchiroli" <address deleted>
Subject: why not listings?
I wonder, why don't you use the listings LaTeX package with beamer
directly? That way you won't need an extra tool and you could just
copy/paste code in .tex files, adding overlays as needed (and as usual
for the non-code LaTeX markup).
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From:
"David Bremner" <address deleted>
Subject: Re: why not listings?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:24:58 -0400
Subject: Re: why not listings?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:24:58 -0400
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 11:05:29 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> wrote: > I wonder, why don't you use the listings LaTeX package with beamer > directly? That way you won't need an extra tool and you could just > copy/paste code in .tex files, adding overlays as needed (and as usual > for the non-code LaTeX markup). An excellent question. I really don't like having two different copies of my code; then every time I make a change in the "running" copy, I have to update the copy and pasted copy. That is also why I have the idea of "sections"; I might typically generate 5 or 6 different TeX figures from one source file. This seems to be doable using an external script with listings as well (see in particular the listings-ext package). As far as needing an extra tool, I assume you mean highlight and not my script. Since I use highlight for ikiwiki, I already have it installed (and anyway I am one of the Debian maintainers so using it is my duty ;)). Listings is also a bit of a pain to use with beamer; every frame you use listings in has to marked fragile. Not the end of the world, but if you don't you get pretty mysterious error messages. A final, perhaps irrational reason is that some years ago I fell out of love with doing fancy things in TeX. Yes, it is Turing complete, but it sure the heck isn't very much fun to debug if something goes wrong. I could easily see other people having different tradeoffs. Maybe if I had understood the capabilities of listings better when I started (particularly the grouping and re-arrangement stuff) I might not have bothered. David