ruby-beamer

DESCRIPTION:

  • A gem that helps you describe latex documents in a ruby environment

FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

  • Still quite basic, not all latex markup is possible

SYNOPSIS:

simple.rb:

beamer_document :author => "Tejas Dinkar",
                :date => "Today",
                :title => "An Example",
                :theme => "Warsaw",
                :disable_navigation => true do

    title_frame

    frame "A Sample Slide" do
        text {"An Itemized List:"}

        itemized_list do
            item "Itemized Item 1"
            item "Itemized Item 2", :on => "2-"
            item "Itemized Item 3", :on => "3-"
        end

        vspace{"2cm"}

        block "A Simple Theorem" do
            "In a right triangle, the square of hypotenuse equals the sum of squares of two other sides"
        end
    end
end

$ rubylatex simple.rb | pdflatex $ okular texput.pdf

REQUIREMENTS:

  • latex

INSTALL:

  • sudo gem install ruby-latex

LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2010 Tejas Dinkar

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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