I received some feedback on the ‘Presenting Code’ post from yesterday.
I got lots of feedback on the “Presenting Code” post. In addition to Cédric Beust’s initial comments, the following people had something to say on the topic:
John Wilger asked on Twitter why I didn’t use “file:” (rather than “http:” and a local web server). Unfortunately, Keynote will not do a web view from a “file:” style URL.
Luke Kanies reports that he does something similar. He uses Vim (rather than Ruby + the Syntax gem) to generate the highlighted HTML. He also adds:
In general, this method works out great, but the one thing I would say is that you should always uncheck “automatic update”. Otherwise, you’ll find that it tries to update 10 seconds before your presentation starts and your web server isn’t available.
Ok, that’s good advice. BTW, I would be very interested in a script (AppleScript or Ruby+OSA) that would iterate over the pages in a Keynote presentation and refresh all the WebViews. Any takers?
James Edward Gray II and Mike Clark mentioned the HTML output bundle. James gives the following details:
Mike (who credits Bruce Williams as his source for this tip) also provided a video.
Couple of items on the above:
Dr. Nic also mentions a “Copy as RTF” TextMate bundle. (I’m not sure if this is the same as James and Mike’s hint above or something different).
Finally, Chris Nelson confirms (via Twitter): “AFAIK there is no equivalent of web views in OpenOffice :(“