Meaning of dexe

[Tobychev]

Hello Stefano!
What does the "dexe" option in the example fobos files do?

[szaghi]

Great Tomas! This is a "refuse", dexe is now build_dir. I will update documentation and example when I will come back from my holidays... See you soon.

[Tobychev]

Stefano, how goes the holidays? I hope you didn't crash with your motorbike again!

[szaghi]

Hi Tomas,

it is nice to read you again.

The holidays were great and my motorbike runs perfectly even if my wrist is
still not at 100% (with my wife repeating me "I told you..." every day). I
hope your holidays were good too.

Under the sun of South Italy I have written a nice (IMHO) new
python-program that I will soon upload on github: it is a presentation
maker aimed to substitute latex-beamer... (returning to my holidays I had
to attend to a conference therefore...)

How do you write your presentation? Maybe it will be helpful for you :-)

What about FoBiS.py? Are you still using it? Do you have bug to fix, or a
feature request?

See you soon.

[Tobychev]

I hope your wrist gets better, and do try to do the exercises the doctors no doubt gave you ;) I try to tell my wife to do hers because they really do help.

I do use beamer, it feels better than trying to use powerpoint or similar things since I don't require more than equations and figures really. I at some point I hope my master thesis will produce a movie but that is far out.

I'm not using FoBiS right now; my project has not been going as well as I dreamed it would, so for now I'm learning to implement the algorithm (Smooth particle hydrodynamics in one dimension) using python in a functioning manner before I add the complexity of debugging fortran on top of it.

I do plan to use both FoBiS and I have some ideas of what I would like to use PreForM when I get back to doing fortran (basically I would like to hack in a syntax dedicated to index matrix columns by name rather than by number in a smoother way than just a bunch of constants).

Keep up the good work, for-tran man!

[szaghi]

I hate powerpoint-like presenter and I love the latex concept of separating
content from layout. I have done many presentations with latex-beamer and I
truly love them. I need equations and figures/tables support like you and
latex-beamer is the right answer.

However, some drawbacks there are:

1. poor multimedia (video/audio) support (not all pdf viewers support
   multimedia content);

2. the compilation of "not so big" presentation (e.g. 20-30 slides) can be
   very time-consuming specially with many figures/animations;

3. themes handling is very cumbersome (e.g. inner/outer themes = a
   nightmare);

4. the support for prezi-like effects is very limited and difficult to use;

5. many minor issues...

I have found that the html/css technologies do a better job for
presentation stuff specially for multimedia contents. However, the html
markup syntax is a nightmare and I hate to write it by hand. On the
contrary, I love markdown syntax: it is fantastic, it being very
easy-to-read/easy-to-write plain text format (more more simple than latex,
but almost powerful for typesetting if it is coupled with html/css).

On the web I have found tons of presentation makers based on
markdown/html/css, but none having support for equations and in general
support for scientific content. In particular I cannot give up the strong
latex-beamer support for long, very structured talks like the ones used for
academic teaching. Thus, I wrote my presenter (the genesis has been similar
to the FoBiS.py one: I had loved gnu make, but it came a moment when the
love becomes hate) that has the following main features (among many others):

1. extremely simple syntax; in few words it is based on markdown with some
   little extensions (like the github flavored markdown):

a) support for latex equations syntax;

b) support for figure/table/generic-box environments with fully
customizable caption/content theming;

2. extremely simple themes handling: it is not necessary to know hmtl/css
   languages, you need to learn a very few statements to customize the theme
   obtaining even very complex layout (very similar to the latex-beamer ones);

3. support for scientific contents;

4. support for prezi-like effects with very simple syntax.

The code (I named MaTiSSe.py, Markdown To Impressive Scientific Slides), is
still under developing, but it is stable and usable (I used for a
presentation done in the last late august). As soon as I will found the
time to clean the source I will upload it on github. Maybe you can be first
tester :-) If you want, I can send you the first "getting_started"
presentation to have a taste of MaTiSSe.py.

MaTiSSe.py is designed for not only poor fortran men, but it is devoted
more generally for poor scientific presenters that are often "humiliated"
by the talks of Mac-OSX-addicted pseudo-nerds :-)

I am sorry to read that your project has some hitches. In my Institute
there is a team working on SPH from at least 10 years, thus having a lot of
experience: in case you want to talk with other researchers (other than
yours University) I can give you their contacts. Python is very useful for
fast algorithm developing, but I think it has a cons... it generates
dependency :-) In my list of preferred languages Fortran is always
pursued by Python.

It is nice your idea of PreForM.py using.

See you soon.

[szaghi]

Hi Tomas,

I have finally uploaded the Presentation Maker, MaTiSSe.py

https://github.com/szaghi/MaTiSSe

the documentation is very WIP and the code is in beta testing, but it is usable.

Into the example dir there is a getting_started presentation that should explain the main features/common usage. It is a very long presentation (about 60 slides), but it covers almost all present features of MaTiSSe.py. Just take a rapid look (there is a compiled presentation named index.html, open it with your browser; remember that javascripts must be activated) for get a taste of MaTiSSe.py.

As soon possible other more concise examples will be uploaded.

See you soon

[szaghi]

I just see that I have not uploaded the compiled examples... I do it now