collaborative slide editing made easy
wiki2beamer converts a simple wiki-like syntax to complex LaTeX beamer code. It's written in python and should run on windows and all *nix platforms. Why collaborative? Because you can use it with version control systems. Afraid to loose some LaTeX powers? Don't worry: you can always fall back to plain LaTeX as wiki2beamer is just a preprocessor.
wiki2beamer: Try it with your colleagues! :)
This is how it looks like:
| wiki2beamer code input | LaTeX code output |
==== A simple frame ==== * with a funky * bullet list *# and two *# numbered sub-items |
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{A simple frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item with a funky
\item bullet list
\begin{enumerate}
\item and two
\item numbered sub-items
\end{enumerate}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
|
Which do you like more? And there is even more cool stuff inside: animations, code listings, text formatting, ... (see the example pdf).
If you want to improve wiki2beamer, don't be afraid. It's not that complicated and we happily accept pull-requests. Just make your changes, and submit a pull-request on GitHub. If you want to make things go faster, you can also document your changes in the man-page sources (asciidoc) and write some unittests so we don't have to do that for you.
wiki2beamer has native packages in the following distributions:
wiki2beamer only requires a working python interpreter. It's supposed to run on CPython 2.3 up to 3.x. If it doesn't, it's a bug that should be filed in the bugtracker.