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wiki2beamer(1)
NAME
wiki2beamer - convert wiki-formatted text to latex-beamer code
SYNOPSIS
wiki2beamer [OPTION...] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
FILE the text-file(s) to be processed
-h,--help
show a short usage help
--version
show version information
-o,--output FILE
write output to FILE instead of stdout
USAGE
Usually you want to pipe the output of wiki2beamer into a file:
wiki2beamer footalk.txt > footalk.tex
If called with multiple input files, wiki2beamer processes them in order with their content being simply
concatenated. If called without any input file, wiki2beamer will attempt to read input from STDIN. If no
input files are supplied and nothing is available on STDIN, wiki2beamer prints its usage message and
exits.
If an error occurs, wiki2beamer returns a return code other then 0.
SYNTAX
Wiki2beamer has it's own wiki-syntax which (evolved without much of a concept ;) and) is described below.
Everything that is unknown to wiki2beamer will be passed through to the LaTeX output (unless inside
special environments).
OVERALL STRUCTURE
A wiki2beamer txt file can consist of two sections: the head and the body. The head is optional and is
an autotemplate environment. The body contains the content of the document. If the head (autotemplate)
is not given, then only the code for the body will be generated and can be included into a manually
crafted LaTeX template file.
MANAGING INPUT
You can split input to wiki2beamer into multiple files. This helps to keep things apart and avoids
conflicts. There are two ways to split input. The first is to use multiple input files which wiki2beamer
will read and process in order as if they were one concatenated file. The second is to use the
>>>include<<< syntax.
>>>includefile<<<
Include the file named includefile at this line. Works recursively. Endless recursion will be
detected and treated as an error. Including files doesn't work inside [nowiki] and [code]
environments (see below).
STRUCTURING THE PRESENTATION
== sectionname ==
opens a section called sectionname
== longsectionname ==[shortname]
opens a section called longsectionname, passing the parameter shortname to latex
=== subsectname ===
opens a subsection called subsectname
=== longsubsectname ===[shortname]
opens a subsection called longsubsectname, passing the parameter shortname to latex
==== frametitle ====
opens a frame with the title frametitle
==== frametitle ====[param]
opens a frame with the title frametitle, passes frame parameters like t, fragile, verbatim etc. to
latex
!==== frametitle ====[param]
the ! added in front of a frame, selects a frame for exclusive generation. It makes wiki2beamer
skip all frames that are not selected. You can select multiple frames. This can speed up the
edit-compile-view cycle massively.
Sectioning commands work only at the beginning of a line.
LISTS (BULLETS/ENUMERATIONS)
* text create a bullet (itemize) with text
*<onslide> text
create a bullet (itemize) with text that only appears on the specified slides (onslide)
# text create a numbered item (enumerate) with text
#<onslide> text
create a numbered item (enumerate) with text that only appears on the specified slides (onslide)
Cascaded lists, mixed ordered and unordered items:
* This is a crazy list.
*# It contains different items.
*# In different formats.
*** On different levels.
***<2-> which are animated
*<3-> Quite a lot of fun.
**<4-> Isn't it?
ENVIRONMENTS
LaTeX knows many environments, some of which are as simple as \begin{center} \end{center}, others are
more complicated. To use these in a more wiki-like fashion, use <[name] to open and [name]> to close
environments. It will be simply converted to \begin{name} and end{name}.
Warning
No parsing is done. The user is responsible for closing any opened environment. Environment-tags
are only recognized at the beginning of a line.
SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTS
Unlike standard environments, some environment names are recognized by wiki2beamer. These are: nowiki,
code, autotemplate and frame. If wiki2beamer detects one of these it will do some advanced parsing, which
can even fail with a syntax error.
AUTOTEMPLATE
Autotemplate can be used at the beginning of a beamer .txt file. It will create the required LaTeX
headers to compile the content.
<[autotemplate]
opens the autotemplate environment
[autotemplate]>
close the autotemplate environment
key=value (inside [autotemplate])
insert a template command \keyvalue
key=value pairs are converted to \keyvalue in the output (except special keys) -- everything after = is
just appended to \key.
<[autotemplate]
usepackage=[utf8]{inputenc}
[autotemplate]>
will be converted to \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}.
There is a built-in set of options:
<[autotemplate]
documentclass={beamer}
usepackage={listings}
usepackage={wasysym}
usepackage={graphicx}
date={\today}
lstdefinestyle={basic}{....}
titleframe=True
[autotemplate]>
titleframe is a special key that tells wiki2beamer to create a title frame. To set the title, subtitle
and author of the presentation use the keys title, subtitle and author. Overriding of the default options
works on
• per-key level for: documentclass, titleframe
• per-package level for: usepackage
• no overriding for: everything else
CODE
Use code-environments to display animated code listings.
<[code]
open a code environment
<[code][param]
open a code environment passing parameters to the latex lstlisting environment.
[code]>
close the code environment
<[code][key=value,...]
...
[code]>
<[code] opens the environment, [code]> closes it, everything after <[code] is passed to the LaTeX
listings package as options for this listing. Inside the code environment, [ and ] must be escaped as \[
and \]. Things between [ and ] are animations. There are two kinds of animations:
• [<slidespec>some code] - show "some code" only on specified slides
• [[<slidespec>some code][<slidespec>some other code]] - show "some code" on the slides in the first
spec, show "some other code" on the slides in the second spec, fill up space on slides without content
with spaces
Slide-specs can be of the form:
• n - one single frame n
• n-m - sequence of frames n to m
• spec,spec,... - combine multiple specs into on (e.g. <1-3,5>)
NOWIKI
Nowiki-Environments completely escape from wiki2beamer replacements. <[nowiki] opens the environment,
[nowiki]> closes it.
FRAME
The LaTeX-frame environment is where the content of a slide goes. You can manually close a frame-
environment which was opened with ==== Frametitle ==== with [frame]>. Wiki2beamer is then aware that the
last frame is already closed and doesn't try to close it again.
TEXT FORMATTING
'''text'''
typeset text bold
''text''
typeset text italic
@text@ typeset text in typewriter type, to ignore an @, escape it as \@
!text! alert text, to ignore an !, escape it as \!
_ color _ text _
make text appear in color
COLUMNS
<[columns]
opens the column environment
[[[ width ]]]
creates a column of width, everything below goes into this column
[columns]>
closes the column environment
GRAPHICS
<<<pathtofile>>>
include image from pathtofile
<<<pathtofile,key=value>>>
include image from pathtofile passing key=value parameters to latex
FOOTNOTES
(((text)))
create a footnote containing text
LAYOUT
--length--
when found at start of line, with nothing afterwards, insert a \vspace{length} (vertical space of
length length)
--*length--
same as above, but insert a \vspace* (a forced vspace)
+<overlay>{content}
\uncover the content on the given overlay subframes. They will already take up the space, they
need to be displayed, so the geometry of the frame doesn't change when the element pops up.
-<overlay>{content}
\only show the content on the given overlay subframes. They will not take up the space they need
to be displayed, so the geometry of the frame changes when the element pops up.
SUBSTITUTIONS
--> becomes $\rightarrow$
==> becomes $\Rightarrow$
<-- becomes $\leftarrow$
<== becomes $\Leftarrow$
:-) becomes \smiley (requires package wasysym)
:-( becomes \frownie (requires package wasysym)
FRAME HEADERS/FOOTERS
There are two variables, FRAMEHEADER and FRAMEFOOTER. The content of these will be inserted at the
beginning/end of all following slides.
@FRAMEHEADER=text
set frameheader to text
@FRAMEFOOTER=text
set framefooter to text
Leave text empty to reset frame headers and footers.
LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2009 Kai Dietrich, Michael Rentzsch and others.
DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free
Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
CODE LICENSE
wiki2beamer is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
31 March 2012 wiki2beamer(1)