impress!ve - presentation for geeks
Recently I’ve discovered a great presentation tool chain for real geeks:
- beamer latex class to describe the slides in latex
- vim for editing
- impressive (former keyJnote) by keyJ for displaying
There are two points for improvement in this chain though.
Markdown plus latex
A pure latex file demands too much markup for my taste, exactly as an html file requires too much angle brackets. I am going to use something like markdown with latex fragments the same way you can use html in markdown as a fallback for the case you need something special.
Motivation for the impressive fork
Macs have the perfect presentation software: while an external beamer shows the slide you are talking about, your notebook shows
- the current slide
- the next slide
- time elapsed for the current slide
- total elapsed time
This is exactly what I need and what impressive is unfortunately missing - the dual monitor (dual head) feature.
impressive is implemented in python and the source code seems to be a perfect foundation:
- the code looks clean
- it is a bit C style, not object oriented - a lot of global, not (deeper) structured variables, but it is OK
So keep an eye on http://github.com/geekq/impressive
