[IPython-dev] Slideshow mode for IPython 2.0

Thu Apr 10 04:18:16 EDT 2014

To confirm, I was referring to Matthias' live IPython slide mode extension,
not the static slides nor the live reveal.js extension. I haven't played
with the live reveal.js, but will be interested to see the results in v2.x
Damian.

On 9 April 2014 19:49, John Griffiths <j.davidgriffiths at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 here (possibly outdated, and I don't know if it is IPython 2.0 compatible,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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