Plain Presentations in Plain Text (PPPT)

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Presentations in Plain Text (PPT++)

With some help from Markdown and Vim.

“Hope this makes you chuckle.” —Micah Elliott

Basics

• Any editor could do (vim/emacs preferred)

• Don’t need any presentation tools

• Just <C-f> and <C-b> to advance slides

• Vim Markdown syntax makes it pretty

• System requirements: runlevel 1 ☻

Quite simple (and a bit silly)

Features

• Single- or double-spaced bullets
  • Dense slides okay! (not recommended)
• Code blocks are exactly as you see them
  • Semantically valid sub-bullets!
• Colors defined by scheme you already use
  • and term setup (eg, this awesome font)
• Works great in a pinch (A/V issues)
• Contraints are obvious since WYSIWYG
• Could do outline mode with folding

Make a really important take-away!!

Code looks almost decent

Not as good as pygmentized, but at least it’s right here:

def trog
  puts "never leaving #{ENV['EDITOR']}"
end

Builds

Another Silly Build Technique

• Just turn the block of bullets…

• into visual…

• from the bottom…

• and de-visual-ize as you talk.

What a hack!

Dynamic

This is an empty slide.

What else do you want to know?

Can look at code demo from right here!

Recommendations

• Keep it small/standard: 640x360 == 16:9

  • Or maybe 560x420 for ~4:3

• Can record with xvidcap (or whatever)

• Can zoom with compiz (for projector preso)

• Make each slide same height (:se lines=)

Usually-Superior Text-Based Alternatives

• Showoff
• Slideshow
• Sliderepl
• ReST + S5
• Moin
• Slidy
• 1 slide/file navigated via :bn
  • vim *.md

And seval others, I’m sure.

Resources

• Demo video
• This presentation as sample template
  • gist
• Adobe Vim theme
  • gist
• NERD Commenter (script 1218)
• ProFont
• Vim Markdown

None of these required!

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