[IPython-dev] Slideshow mode for IPython 2.0

John Griffiths j.davidgriffiths at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 14:49:08 EDT 2014


phew!


On 9 April 2014 19:45, Damián Avila <damianavila at gmail.com> wrote:

> >I am not making the adjustment to use it in IPython 2.0:
>
> Typo: I *****am***** making the adjustment to Live_Reveal to work with
> IPython 2.0
>
>
> 2014-04-09 15:37 GMT-03:00 MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com>:
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Damián Avila <damianavila at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> People, you are mistaken two things... three in fact...
>>>>
>>>> 1) IPython slides, generated from IPython.nbconvert using reveal.js,
>>>> static presentations. About the customization, you can check some of my
>>>> blog post about it:
>>>> http://www.damian.oquanta.info/categories/slideshow.html. There are a
>>>> lot of things to improve, and it will be discussed soon here and in proper
>>>> issues.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Slideshow mode: This is a js hack from Mathias, which let you see
>>>> the IPython notebook as a slideshow, but it is live, I mean you can run
>>>> code in the slideshow itself... and the installation step are described
>>>> here (possibly outdated, and I don't know if it is IPython 2.0 compatible,
>>>> I did not check it yet):
>>>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/fperez/nb-slideshow-template/blob/master/install-support.ipynb
>>>>
>>>> 3) Live_Reveal IPython extension, which gives you an slideshow powered
>>>> by reveal.js, but not static as IPython slides, instead they are lives, I
>>>> mean you can execute code as with the slidemode. This is still in
>>>> development and working in IPython 1.x... I am not making the adjustment to
>>>> use it in IPython 2.0: https://github.com/damianavila/live_reveal
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Are there plans to incorporate a live slideshow mode into IPython proper
>>> or is that beyond the scope of the project?
>>>
>>
>> I think it's appropriate for an IPython *extension*, but probably not in
>> IPython itself.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I've used static reveal.js presentations in the past but it's really
>>> cool to do a live calculation when you want to demonstrate that a piece of
>>> code really is as fast as you're saying it is.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hope it is more clear right now...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2014-04-09 14:16 GMT-03:00 Alessandro Gagliardi <
>>>> alessandro.gagliardi at glassdoor.com>:
>>>>
>>>>>  I used IPython-2.0.0-dev extensively in making slides these past few
>>>>> months. (I used 2.0 because I had better luck with getting speaker notes to
>>>>> render, though it is still inconsistent and I don’t know why.)
>>>>>
>>>>>  I think the notebook you linked to is no longer relevant though.
>>>>> These days, to make my slides, I just run
>>>>> ipython nbconvert my_notebook.ipynb --to slides
>>>>> from the command line and it works great.
>>>>> reveal.js does need to be in that directory.
>>>>>
>>>>>  I definitely have a wish list of things I’d like to see developed
>>>>> with the slide conversion (for example, I’ve found styling the slides to be
>>>>> impossibly difficult.) I think it’s also confusing because this is such a
>>>>> new feature and has changed so many times since it was first introduced
>>>>> that it’s easy to find things like the link below that are no longer needed
>>>>> (and probably don’t work anymore). I suppose that’s the price of working on
>>>>> the bleeding edge.
>>>>>
>>>>>  -Alessandro
>>>>>
>>>>>   Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:38:50 +0100
>>>>>  From: Phil Elson <pelson.pub at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [IPython-dev] Slideshow mode for IPython 2.0
>>>>>
>>>>>  Just wondering if anybody has taken the slideshow mode and made it
>>>>> work
>>>>> with IPython notebook 2.0.0 yet? I did try the notebook at
>>>>>
>>>>> http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/fperez/nb-slideshow-template/blob/master/install-support.ipynbbut
>>>>> I suspect the internals have changed sufficiently between v1.x and
>>>>> v2.x
>>>>> to prevent it working with the latest version.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Looks like the repo hasn't been updated in a while, so wondered if
>>>>> anybody
>>>>> was working on this?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>  Phil
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
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Mr. John Griffiths, MSc

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Centre for Speech, Language, and the Brain

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