From: "Esteban Manchado Velázquez" <zoso@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T13:23:18+09:00
Subject: [ANN] R-Pass 0.1 (Ruby Presentation Assistant)

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Hi guys,

R-Pass
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R-Pass (the Ruby Presentation Assistant) is a bundle of small utilities and
configuration files to assist you when writing talk slides and when giving
talks and demos. The main utility is a small text filter, based on CodeRay,
that highlights code in all the CodeRay supported languages, for slides
written in S5/HTML and LaTeX (you'll need my CodeRay extensions for the
latter, though).  R-Pass comes with ready-to-use configuration files to
integrate the highlighter with VIM.

Why?
----

    I give talks and demos from time to time. I use LaTeX a lot (specifical=
ly,
LaTeX-Beamer), and I wanted to highlight all the sample Ruby code in the
slides. Once I found some Makefile-based solution (can't recall where), but=
 I
didn't like it very much, so I decided to write my own generic simple text
filter to highlight code.

    Once I wrote it, I figured out it was a good idea to write a couple of
tiny utilities and configuration files to assist myself when giving or writ=
ing
talks... and I bundled them together and decided to open up a project at
RubyForge to release them. Although I opened it a week ago or so, I have ju=
st
released the first "stable" version:

    http://rubyforge.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=3D7051

Example
-------

Say you have some LaTeX slides open in VIM, and you need to write some samp=
le
code. You write it this way:

------------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------=
---
%code ruby
% class Something
%   attr_reader :foo
%   attr_accessor :bar
%   def hello
%     puts "Hello!"
%   end
% end
%endcode
------------------------------------- >8 ----------------------------------=
---

Then, you hit "\RH" (for "Refresh Highlighting") in VIM, and you get:

------------------------------------- 8< ----------------------------------=
---
%code ruby
% class Something
%   attr_reader :foo
%   attr_accessor :bar
%   def hello
%     puts "Hello!"
%   end
% end
\begin{semiverbatim}
\synreserved{class} \synclass{Something}
  \synident{attr\_reader} \synsymbol{:foo}
  \synident{attr\_accessor} \synsymbol{:bar}
  \synreserved{def} \synmethod{hello}
    \synident{puts}
\synstring{\syndelimiter{"{}}\syncontent{Hello!}\syndelimiter{"{}}}
  \synreserved{end}
\synreserved{end}


\end{semiverbatim}
%endcode
------------------------------------- >8 ----------------------------------=
---

Links
-----

The project is registered in RubyForge, as "r-pass", so you have:

    Homepage: http://r-pass.rubyforge.org/
    Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3D2223
    RubyForge homepage: http://rubyforge.org/projects/r-pass

The code is in Darcs, at http://www.demiurgo.org/darcs/r-pass/ , so
getting it is a matter of:

    darcs get http://www.demiurgo.org/darcs/r-pass/

Enjoy!

--=20
Esteban Manchado Vel=E1zquez <zoso@foton.es> - http://www.foton.es
EuropeSwPatentFree - http://EuropeSwPatentFree.hispalinux.es

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