Create presentations in Perl 6 Pod
Perl 6 Pod is awesome markup language. I use the Pod as often as possible. For example, for creating presentations. How am I doing this?
I open my favirite text editor and start presentation with а DESCRIPTION:
=for DESCRIPTION :title('presentation template in Perl 6 Pod format')
= :author('Aliaksanr Zahatski') :pubdate('2011')
The named blocks =Slide are used to describe each presentation screen:
B<=begin Slide :title('About me')>
http://search.cpan.org/$\sim$zag/
lang/rakudo ( FreeBSD )
Russian book "Everything about Perl 6"
B<=end Slide>
Lists are specified as a series of =item blocks :
=begin Slide :title('Content')
key moments:
=item features
=item implementations
=item usage
=end Slide
A =Image block is used for insert pictures:
=for Image :width('3in')
i/si26.jpg
The =config directive allows you to prespecify default images size:
=config Image :width('2in')
For specifying the code samples use standart Pod block with attribute lang:
=for code B<:lang('Perl')>
my @keys = <a b c d e>;
my @vals = ^5;
my %hash = @keys Z @vals;
or
=begin code B<:lang('JavaScript')>
var keys = ['a', 'b', 'c'];
var values = [1, 2, 3];
var map = {}; //this is a comment
for(var i in keys) {
map[ keys[i] ] = values[i];
}
=end code
would be rendered:
The following example demonstrates the use of pauses:
=begin Slide :title('Perl6::Pod::Slide: pause demo')
Now :
B<=Pause>
=for item :numbered
Lists
=for item :numbered B<:pause>
Tables
=for item :numbered
Headers
=end Slide
Use =Latex to type Latex text;
=Latex
\[
\Gamma_0 S_0 (1-\alpha)^2 = k_d \alpha^2
\quad \Rightarrow \quad
\Bigl(\frac{1-\alpha}{\alpha}\Bigr)^2 = \frac{k_d}{\Gamma_0 S_0}
\]
To insert a vector graphics I use coneverter epstopdf, and then insert it with =Image block.
Fork presentation template [1] designed for easy start and type "make" to build pdf file.
You will need the following software to be installed: latex-beamer, Perl 5 and Perl6-Pod-Slide [2].
[1]Presentation template in Perl 6 Pod format.https://github.com/zag/template-pod6
[2]Perl6::Pod::Slide - make slides easy. http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Perl6::Pod::Slide