the Revelator

Who's That Writin' Reveal.js Slide HTML?

Not me.

Relevator generates Reveal JS presentation decks from simplified (and easier to edit) YAML files.

This is NOT actively maintained anymore, and the error handling around the YAML isn't very good. There probably should be a Python "DSL" instead to make it easier.

Background

Reveal.js is a pretty awesome framework for generating web-based slides.

This is what Reveal.js looks like: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/

HTML you write typically looks like: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/blob/master/index.html

Except with Revelator, you can write simpler things like: https://github.com/mpdehaan/slide-the-revelator/blob/master/test.yml

So you have to write a lot less of the angle brackets.

Usage

chmod +x write_it
vim test.yml
write_it test.yml my_presentation_directory
sensible-browser my_presentation_directory

Supported Reveal.js Features

• Setting the Title, Author, and Description
• HTML tags via shorthand
• Class notes
• Nested slides
• Changing background colors
• Changing transitions
• Images
• Hyperlinks
• Formatted Code Blocks
• Ordered and Unordered Lists
• Blockquotes

Syntax

Here's how slide transitions and fragments (transitions between parts of slides) work:

set_global options:

• fragment
  • true
  • false
  • grow
  • shrink
  • "roll-in"
  • "zoom-in"
  • "highlight-blue|green|red"
  • "highlight-current-blue|green|red"
  • "fade-out" +/- "-visible"
• transition
  • linear
  • concave
  • zoom
  • cube
  • page
  • fade

License

GPLv3

Author

Michael DeHaan