Mon, 02 Jun 2008

Bruce the Presentation Tool

Bruce the Presentation Tool is for people who are tired of fighting with presentation tools. Presentations are composed (edited) in plain text files. In its basic form it allows text, code, image, interative Python sessions and video. It uses pyglet to render in OpenGL.

Get it from PyPI

Bruce 3.0 Features (this being the first 3.0 release)

Bruce REQUIRES Python 2.5 and pyglet Subversion r2093, or 1.1 later than beta1 when it's released.

How to write presentations using Bruce the Presentation Tool

Bruce presentations are written as plain-text files in the ReStructuredText format with some extensions. See the examples folder *.rst files for some samples, the simplest being "simple.rst" which displays plain text sentences centered on a white background (using the "big-centered" style):

.. load-style:: big-centered Text displayed centered on the default white background. ---- A new page, separated from the previous using the four dashes. Ut enim ad minim veniam. A Page Title ------------ Pages may optionally have titles which are displayed centered at the top by default.

and so on. For more information see the HOWTO at the Bruce website.