Bochar
30-second slideshows for hackers with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the slideshows!
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What is Bochar?
Bochar [bɔʧar] is a Cleaver wrapped in Shower Ribbon.
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What is Bochar?
So let's talk about Cleaver.
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What is Cleaver?
Cleaver turns the following:
title: My Slideshow
output: slideshow.html
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## Hello, world!
### This is my slideshow
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What is Cleaver?
Into a slideshow like this slideshow.
Cleaver uses a simple Markdown format.
- Simply write your slides in Markdown
- … and separate them with
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What is Cleaver?
Cleaver comes with a stylesheet that looks good by default, but that you can extend at your heart's desire.
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Return to Bochar
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Getting Bochar
Get Bochar from NPM
npm install -g bochar
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Generation with Bochar
And run it against your shiny new presentation
bochar path/to/presentation.md
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Continuous generation with Bochar
If you want watching your md-file and regenerate presentation, just add watch command:
bochar watch path/to/presentation.md
Next we'll talk about setting up a quick presentation.
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Metadata
Each presentation contains metadata, for example:
title: Shower Ribbon + Cleaver = Bochar
author:
name: "Vladimir Starkov"
twitter: "@matmuchrapna"
url: "http://vstarkov.com"
output: index.html
Let's break this chunk down on the next slide.
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Metadata Fields
- title: The title of your presentation
- author: Some fields to populate an optional author slide at the end
- style: An optional external stylesheet to load
- output: Where to save your file (default: FILENAME-cleaver.html)
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Metadata Fields
- controls: Option to render navigation buttons (default: true)
- agenda: Option whether or not to insert an agenda slide (similar to a table of contents) after the title (default: false)
- encoding: A specified content encoding (default: utf-8)
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Metadata Fields (Advanced)
- template: Location of the template used to render the slides (default: default.mustache)
- layout: Location of the layout template used to render everything (default: layout.mustache)
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Other Slides
Slides are separated by -- and are written in markdown.
Use h2 to define slide's title (denoted ##)
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Author Slide
If your metadata contains author information (name, url, twitter), an author slide will be inserted at the end of your presentation.
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That's all, folks!
Seriously, that's it. Bochar is perfect for quick slideshows that you can create using a comfortable format with Shower ribbon template. No extra software or text boxes required.
Check us out on GitHub.
