Hovercraft!
The merge of convenience and cool!
Hovercraft! is a tool to make impress.js_ presentations from
reStructuredText. For a quick explanation, see the demo_.
Features
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Write your presentations in a text markup language. No slow, limiting GUI, no annoying HTML!
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Pan, rotate and zoom in 3D, with automatic repositioning of slides!
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A presenter console with notes and slide previews!
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Support for showing mathematical formulas.
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Styling is easy with CSS.
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The slide show generated is in HTML, so you only need a web browser to show it.
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Easy sharing, as it can be put up on a website for anyone to see!
Full documentation is available at readthedocs.org_, and also in the
documentation subdirectory.
Installation
Hovercraft requires Python 3 and can be installed like any Python package.
The easiest way is to install pip_, and then run::
$ pip3 install hovercraft
Juan Bondi has made videos of how to install:
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Installation on Ubuntu and Debian based computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHSJLF9OnKQ
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Installation on Windows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63I8Az24d8
Hovercraft is untested on Windows, but there is no reason it shouldn't work, at least in theory.
.. _impress.js: http://github.com/bartaz/impress.js
.. _demo: http://regebro.github.com/hovercraft
.. _readthedocs.org: https://hovercraft.readthedocs.io/
.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/