Landslide

Overview

Generates a slideshow using the slides that power the html5-slides presentation.

A sample slideshow is here.

News

10/19/10

Version 0.8.2 is tagged and pushed to pypi.

This release fixes some unicode and theme issues.

Thanks to Olivier Verdier, millette, and n1k0 (as always).

09/21/10

Version 0.8.1 is tagged and pushed to pypi.

This release fixes an issue in the "light" theme. The help and table of contents side bars were toggled on by default, but this has been fixed.

News

09/06/10

Version 0.8.0 is tagged and pushed to pypi. New features:

• Added new light theme (agonzalezro) (#14)
• Slide source files are now displayable in presentation (n1k0), press s to toggle
• Press h to toggle a help sidebar
• Greatly improved Restructured Text support
• Themes will now fall back to the default theme for most missing files
• Improved project file structure and pypi compatibility (harobed) (#15)
• Fix for presentations with more than 48 slides (mtrythall and ipmb) (#17)
• Many small bug fixes and other improvements

Many thanks to n1k0, agonzalezro, harobed, mtrythall, and ipmb for helping to make this release possible.

Also a big thanks to Lincoln Loop for supporting and using Landslide!!

News

07/15/10

Version 0.6.0 is tagged and pushed to pypi. New features:

• Navigate your slideshow using arrow keys or the space bar
• Press t to toggle a table of contents for your presentation
• Press n to toggle slide number/source file visibility
• Press 2 to toggle notes in your slides (specify with the .notes macro)
• Press 3 to switch to 3D display (using latest WebKit versions)
• ReST (Restructured Text) support. It's kind of experimental!
• Theme support. Develop your own themes!
• Macros. Easily add functionality to landslide slideshows!
• Many bug fixes

06/24/10

• Version 0.4.0 is tagged, and Landslide is on pypi.
• Landslide installs as a command line script if you install it via easy_install or pip.

Features

• Write your slide contents easily using the Markdown or ReStructuredText syntaxes
• HTML5, Web based, stand-alone document (embedded local images), fancy transitions
• PDF export (using PrinceXML if available)

Requirements

python and the following modules:

• jinja2
• pygments for code blocks syntax coloration

Eventually:

• markdown if you use Markdown syntax for your slide contents
• docutils if you use ReStructuredText syntax for your slide contents

Installation

The easiest way to install Landlside is probably using pip:

$ pip install landslide

Alternatively, you can use easy_install:

$ easy_install landslide

If you want to stay on the edge:

$ git clone https://github.com/adamzap/landslide.git
$ cd landslide
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install

Formatting

Markdown

• Your Markdown source files must be suffixed by .md, .markdn, .mdown or .markdown
• To create a title slide, render a single h1 element (eg. # My Title)
• Separate your slides with a horizontal rule (--- in markdown) except at the end of md files
• Your other slides should have a heading that renders to an h1 element
• To highlight blocks of code, put !{lang} where {lang} is the pygment supported language identifier as the first indented line

ReStructuredText

• Your ReST source files must be suffixed by .rst or .rest (.txt is not supported)
• Use headings for slide titles
• Separate your slides using an horizontal rule (---- in RST) except at the end of RST files

Rendering

• Run landslide slides.md or landslide slides.rst
• Enjoy your newly generated presentation.html

As a proof of concept, you can even transform this annoying README into a fancy presentation:

$ landslide README.md && open presentation.html

Or get it as a PDF document, at least if PrinceXML is installed and available on your system:

$ landslide README.md -d readme.pdf
$ open readme.pdf

Viewing

• Press t to toggle display of help
• Press left arrow and right arrow to navigate
• Press t to toggle a table of contents for your presentation. Slide titles are links
• Press ESC to display the presentation overview (Exposé)
• Press n to toggle slide number visibility
• Press S to toggle display of link to the source file for each slide
• Press '2' to toggle notes in your slides (specify with the .notes macro)
• Press '3' to toggle pseudo-3D display (experimental)
• Browser zooming is supported

Commandline Options

Several options are available using the command line:

$ landslide/landslide
Usage: main.py [options] input.md ...

Generates an HTML5 or PDF slideshow from Markdown or other formats

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --copy-theme      Copy theme directory into current presentation source
                        directory
  -b, --debug           Will display any exception trace to stdin
  -d FILE, --destination=FILE
                        The path to the to the destination file: .html or .pdf
                        extensions allowed (default: presentation.html)
  -e ENCODING, --encoding=ENCODING
                        The encoding of your files (defaults to utf8)
  -i, --embed           Embed stylesheet and javascript contents,
                        base64-encoded images in presentation to make a
                        standalone document
  -o, --direct-ouput    Prints the generated HTML code to stdin; won't work
                        with PDF export
  -q, --quiet           Won't write anything to stdin (silent mode)
  -r, --relative        Make your presentation asset links relative to current
                        pwd; This may be useful if you intend to publish your
                        html presentation online.
  -t THEME, --theme=THEME
                        A theme name, or path to a landlside theme directory
  -v, --verbose         Write informational messages to stdin (enabled by
                        default)
  -x EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Comma-separated list of extensions for Markdown

Presentation Configuration

Landslide allows to configure your presentation using a cfg configuration file, therefore easing the aggregation of source directories and the reuse of them accross presentations. Landslide configuration files use the cfg syntax. If you know ini files, you get the picture. Below is a sample configuration file:

[landslide]
theme  = /path/to/my/beautiful/theme
source = 0_my_first_slides.md
         a_directory
         another_directory
         now_a_slide.markdown
         another_one.rst
destination = myWonderfulPresentation.html
css =    my_first_stylesheet.css
         my_other_stylesheet.css
js =     jquery.js
         my_fancy_javascript.js
relative = True
linenos = inline

Please just don't forget to declare the [landslide] section. To generate the presentation as configured, just run:

$ cd /path/to/my/presentation/sources
$ landslide config.cfg

Macros

You can use macros to enhance your presentation:

Notes

Add notes to your slides using the .notes: keyword, eg.:

# My Slide Title

.notes: These are my notes, hidden by default

My visible content goes here

You can toggle display of notes by pressing the 2 key.

Some other macros are also available by default: .fx: foo bar will add the foo and bar classes to the corresponding slide <div> element, easing styling of your presentation using CSS.

Registering Macros

so macros are used to transform the HTML contents of your slide.

You can register your own macros by creating landslide.macro.Macro derived classes, implementing a process(content, source=None) method and returning a tuple containing the modified contents and some css classes you may be wanting to add to your slide <div> element. For example:

!python
import landslide

class MyMacro(landslide.Macro):
  def process(self, content, source=None):
    return content + '<p>plop</p>', ['plopped_slide']

g = landslide.generator.Generator(source='toto.md')
g.register_macro(MyMacro)
print g.render()

This will render any slide as below:

!html
<div class="slide plopped_slide">
  <header><h2>foo</h2></header>
  <section>
    <p>my slide contents</p>
    <p>plop></p>
  </section>
</div>

Advanced Usage

Setting Custom Destination File

$ landslide slides.md -d ~/MyPresentations/KeynoteKiller.html

Working with Directories

$ landslide slides/

Working with Direct Output

$ landslide slides.md -o | tidy

Using an Alternate Landslide Theme

$ landslide slides.md -t mytheme
$ landslide slides.md -t /path/to/theme/dir

Embedding Base-64-Encoded Images

$ landslide slides.md -i

Exporting to PDF

$ landslide slides.md -d PowerpointIsDead.pdf

Theming

A Landslide theme is a directory following this simple structure:

mytheme/
|-- base.html
|-- css
|   |-- print.css
|   `-- screen.css
`-- js
    `-- slides.js

If a theme does not provide HTML and JS files, those from the default theme will be used. CSS is not optional.

Last, you can also copy the whole theme directory to your presentation one by passing the --copy-theme option to the landslide command:

$ landslide slides.md -t /path/to/some/theme --copy-theme

Publishing your Presentation Online

If you intend to publish your HTML presentation online, you'll have to use the --relative option, as well as the --copy-theme one to have all asset links relative to the root of your presentation;

$ landslide slides.md --relative --copy-theme

That way, you'll just have to host the whole presentation directory to a webserver. Of course, no Python nor PHP nor anything else than a HTTP webserver (like Apache) is required to host a landslide presentation.

Check out a Landslide presentation customized this way.

Theme Variables

The base.html must be a Jinja2 template file where you can harness the following template variables:

• css: the stylesheet contents, available via two keys, print and screen, both having:
  • a path_url key storing the url to the asset file path
  • a contents key storing the asset contents
• js: the javascript contents, having:
  • a path_url key storing the url to the asset file path
  • a contents key storing the asset contents
• slides: the slides list, each one having these properties:
  • header: the slide title
  • content: the slide contents
  • number: the slide number
• embed: is the current document a standalone one?
• num_slides: the number of slides in current presentation
• toc: the Table of Contents, listing sections of the document. Each section has these properties available:
  • title: the section title
  • number: the slide number of the section
  • sub: subsections, if any

Styles Scope

• To change HTML5 presentation styles, tweak the css/screen.css stylesheet bundled with the theme you are using
• For PDF, modify the css/print.css

Authors

Original Author and Development Lead

• Adam Zapletal ([email protected])

Co-Author

• Nicolas Perriault ([email protected])

Contributors

• Vincent Agnano ([email protected])
• Brad Cupit
• Stéphane Klein ([email protected])
• Peter Baumgartner
• Michael Trythall ([email protected])
• agonzalezro
• Olivier Verdier

Authors

Base Template Authors and Contributors (html5-slides)

• Marcin Wichary ([email protected])
• Ernest Delgado ([email protected])
• Alex Russell ([email protected])