Some miscellaneous software I've written, and got around to actually releasing...
- (new!) Powerless
is slide creation software - it's a set of Ruby modules for creating
good-looking slides with minimal effort. Some of its features include:
- Works in FreeBSD and Linux - OS X should be straightfoward, but I've had trouble with some of the requisite packages crashing
- Export to PDF - use the fullscreen mode of your favorite PDF viewer to do the slideshow
- Multi-level bulleted lists
- SVG figures, including selective rendering for incremental reveal (ie. reveal your figure portion-by-portion)
- PNG figures
- Split layouts - ie. a figure on the top, a bullet list on the bottom
- Everything is dynamically sized to fit in available space
- Automatic slide numbering
- Changing font text and color
- Centered text
- Partial support for generating printable PDFs
- External sort for IEEE floating point numbers. Written for CS6962 (Advanced Algorithms), November 2005. C source, HTML-ized source.
- I've made some
patches
for pointless,
a presentation tool in the true UNIX spirit. If you want to
be able to:
- Edit your slides with vi or emacs
- Make your figures with inkscape or xfig
- Make graphs with gnuplot
- Use LaTeX in your slides for formulas, etc.
- Have all of this rendered beautifully at any resolution (Powerpoint and its clones have terrible EPS support, and don't support SVG at all.)
- Store your slides, figures, etc. in subversion, CVS, or RCS
- Hack up the presentation software if it doesn't do what you want it to
