Using sage for slideshows/presentations

I was wondering what the current best way is to make a presentation using the sage notebook. Do you just make a normal notebook with white-space separated "slides" and then just scroll through it?

In this thread at sage-notebook, William mentioned that he had implemented a slideshow mode, but it wasn't good enough to include to the main sage branch.

I've heard it said that the linear nature of the notebook makes it difficult to make a slideshow presentation. Mathematica suffers from the same problem, but gets around it by having a SlideShowNavigationBar cell to group a slide together. Also instiki can support slides on top of its normal linear wiki/web page structure. Is there any current work on adding slideshow support to the sage notebook?

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This thread is a bit old. These days the jupyter notebook has some reveal.js integration available when we use sage --notebook=jupyter. However it is not trivial to use. Should I ask for a sage tutorial for this feature here, or in a new question?

pang ( 8 years ago )

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answered 14 years ago

kcrisman
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I don't think there is any current work. Here is something you might try if you use LaTeX.

Download your worksheet as a .sws file.
Get sws2tex.
Use that to make your worksheet into a decent approximation as a LaTeX file.
Modify that worksheet by changing the document class to Beamer, and then insert slide beginnings and ends.

I agree that this is not ideal for industrial use, but depending on your needs it might be a good workaround.

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Thanks kcrisman, that will do until something better comes along!

Simon ( 14 years ago )

Great. If you find a way to streamline this, please let us know. I have to admit I haven't tried this - sws2tex works pretty well, but I haven't done any modifications to the resulting files, which use coloration quite a bit.

kcrisman ( 14 years ago )

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answered 14 years ago

Volker Braun
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I usually use Beamer + sageTeX for slides. That is, write the slides in pdfLaTeX with the Beamer package and use sageTeX to embed code snippets that I want to show. Its not as fast as writing a notebook but allows much finer control over the output.

You can see examples of what other people were using for presentations at the Sage wiki.

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