bruce 3.0beta1

Bruce 3.0 Features (this being the first 3.0 release)

• displays ReStructuredText content with one page per section or transition

• handling of most of ReStructuredText, including:

  • inline markup for emphasis, strong and literal

  • literal and line blocks

  • block quotes

  • definition, bullet and enumerated lists (including nesting)

  • images - inline and stand-alone, including scaling

  • page titles (section headings)

• page decorations

• scrolling of content larger than a screenful

• sensible resource location (images, video, sound from the same directory as the presentation file)

• and some extensions of ReST:

  • embedded Python interative interpreter sessions

  • videos (embedded just like images) with optional looping

  • stylesheet and decoration changes on the fly (eg. multiple fonts per page)

• timer and page count display for practicing

• may specify which screen to open on in multihead

• runs fullscreen at native resolution

• may switch to/from fullscreen quickly

Installation

Bruce REQUIRES:

• Python 2.5

• docutils 0.4.1 or later

• pyglet Subversion r2093, or 1.1 later than beta1 when it’s released

To install Bruce, run:

# python setup.py install

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.