pylize - On-screen presentations made easy

pylize [options] [action]

pylize is a Python script that makes the creation of on-screen presentations a matter of a few minutes. It generates a template master document, which you can edit with your favourite text or HTML editor. The master document is then processed by pylize to generate HTML files for every slide plus a file for the table of contents. You can view the presentation with any CSS-capable webbrowser.

create Create a new presentation template from scratch and write it to the file 'all.html' (don't do anything else)

show View the presentation in your browser

Default action is to process the file 'all.html' in the current directory.

First you should make a new directory for your presentation:

$ mkdir new_pres $ cd new_pres

Then create a template for your presentation master file:

$ pylize [--lang=<lang>] create # The default language is taken wrote: "all.html" # from your environment

Then edit the master file 'all.html'. It is an ordinary HTML file with some special meta tags. The comments in it tell you what to edit.

If you specified a URL for a logo, copy it to the right place. In most cases this should be your presentation directory.

Now, generate your presentation:

> pylize [-v] [--lang=<lang>] # The -v flag makes pylize show wrote: "toc.html" # the values used for the generation wrote: "slide_01.html" # of the slides ... wrote: "slide_nn.html"

This also copies an index and some auxiliary files to your presentation directory. They don't get overwritten next time you run pylize, so you can customize them to your needs.

To view your presentation load the file 'index.html' in your favourite CSS-aware browse

You can find pylize's homepage at: http://www.chrisarndt.de/en/software/pylize/

pylize uses the "empy" module as its template processing engine. empy(1).

pylize was written by Christopher Arndt.

This manual page was written by Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez <anja_isbilia@yahoo.es>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).