A recipe for setting up IPython notebook nbconvert with reveal.js slideshows. .shfiles can also be used as .bat files, as long as you fix the \ / folder separator issue. The working directory will get a new nbconvert project. the ipython-notebooks is where you keep your notebooks. You will need git (I use version 1.8.0), python (I use 2.7.3), IP…

ipynb-reveal-convert-and-run.sh

python ../nbconvert/nbconvert.py -f reveal reveal-test.ipynb
reveal-test_slides.html

ipynb-reveal-setup.sh

git clone https://github.com/damianavila/nbconvert.git
cd nbconvert
git checkout reveal_converter
git submodule init
git submoudle update

cd ../ipython-notebooks
git submodule add https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js.git

mkdir js
cp ../nbconvert/js/* js/.
mkdir notes
cp ../nbconvert/notes/* notes/.

reveal-test.ipynb

{
 "metadata": {
  "name": "reveal-test"
 },
 "nbformat": 3,
 "nbformat_minor": 0,
 "worksheets": [
  {
   "cells": [
    {
     "cell_type": "heading",
     "level": 1,
     "metadata": {
      "slideshow": {
       "slide_type": "slide"
      }
     },
     "source": [
      "heading 1"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {
      "slideshow": {
       "slide_type": "fragment"
      }
     },
     "source": [
      "hi how are you"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "heading",
     "level": 1,
     "metadata": {
      "slideshow": {
       "slide_type": "slide"
      }
     },
     "source": [
      "heading 2"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "print \"hello world\""
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {
      "slideshow": {
       "slide_type": "subslide"
      }
     },
     "outputs": [
      {
       "output_type": "stream",
       "stream": "stdout",
       "text": [
        "hello world\n"
       ]
      }
     ],
     "prompt_number": 1
    }
   ],
   "metadata": {}
  }
 ]
}