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S5 Themes (Blue, I18N and Pixel) - Slide Show (S9) Template Pack
What's Slide Show (S9)?
A Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read. More Slide Show (S9) Project Site ยป
Intro
The S5 (Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System) templates bundled up into a Slide Show (S9) template pack including three S5 themes, that is, Blue, I18N and Pixel.
Note, the S5 Themes package is configured to use the
following headers in slides.html.erb
:
theme: blue # change as needed values include default|blue|i18n|pixel
author: Your Name Here
company: Your Company Here
title: Your Slide Show Title Here
subtitle: Your Subtitle Here
footer: Your Footer Here
subfooter: Your Subfooter Here
Use the theme
header to choose your S5 theme. Packaged themes include
default
, blue
, i18n
and pixel
.
Try It Yourself - How To Use the S5 Themes Template Pack
If you want to try it yourself, install (fetch) the new template pack. Issue the command:
$ slideshow install s5themes
Or as an alternative clone the template pack using git
. Issue the commands:
$ cd ~/.slideshow/templates
$ git clone git://github.com/slideshow-s9/slideshow-s5-themes.git
To check if the new template got installed, use the list
command:
$ slideshow list
Listing something like:
Installed templates include:
s5themes (~/.slideshow/templates/s5themes/s5themes.txt)
Tip: To get started use the welcome quick starter sample. Issue the command:
$ slideshow new
Now you will have a copy of the welcome.text
Quick Starter sample
in Markdown in your working folder.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% Some Headers
Title: Slide Show (S9) 10-Minute Tutorial
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% Let's go.
# Slide Show (S9) 10-Minute Tutorial
Agenda
* What's Slide Show (S9)?
* Wiki-Style Markup Language - Markdown, Textile
* How it works - Just press F11!
* What's S5? What's S6?
* Gradient Themes Using "Loss-Free" Vector Graphics in S9
# What's Slide Show (S9)?
### What?
A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and KeyNote in Ruby
### Getting Started in 1-2-3 Easy Steps
* Step 1: Author your slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language
* Step 2: Build your slide show using the `slideshow` gem
* Step 3: Open up your slide show in your browser and hit the space bar to flip through your slides
* That's it. Showtime!
Showtime! Let's use the -t/--template
switch to build the
sample slide show. Example:
$ slideshow build welcome.text -t s5themes
Open up the generated welcome.html
page in your browser. Voila. That's it.
Questions? Comments?
Questions? Comments? Send them along to the Free Web Slide Show Alternatives (S5, S6, S9, Slidy And Friends) Forum/Mailing List. Thanks!