Bochar

30-second slideshows for hackers with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the slideshows!

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What is Bochar?

Bochar [bɔʧar] is a Cleaver wrapped in Shower Ribbon.

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What is Bochar?

So let's talk about Cleaver.

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What is Cleaver?

Cleaver turns the following:

title: My Slideshow
output: slideshow.html
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## Hello, world!
### This is my slideshow

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What is Cleaver?

Into a slideshow like this slideshow.

Cleaver uses a simple Markdown format.

• Simply write your slides in Markdown
• … and separate them with --

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What is Cleaver?

Cleaver comes with a stylesheet that looks good by default, but that you can extend at your heart's desire.

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Return to Bochar

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Getting Bochar

Get Bochar from NPM

npm install -g bochar

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Generation with Bochar

And run it against your shiny new presentation

bochar path/to/presentation.md

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Continuous generation with Bochar

If you want watching your md-file and regenerate presentation, just add watch command:

bochar watch path/to/presentation.md

Next we'll talk about setting up a quick presentation.

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Metadata

Each presentation contains metadata, for example:

title: Shower Ribbon + Cleaver = Bochar
author:
  name: "Vladimir Starkov"
  twitter: "@matmuchrapna"
  url: "http://vstarkov.com"
output: index.html

Let's break this chunk down on the next slide.

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Metadata Fields

• title: The title of your presentation
• author: Some fields to populate an optional author slide at the end
• style: An optional external stylesheet to load
• output: Where to save your file (default: FILENAME-cleaver.html)

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Metadata Fields

• controls: Option to render navigation buttons (default: true)
• agenda: Option whether or not to insert an agenda slide (similar to a table of contents) after the title (default: false)
• encoding: A specified content encoding (default: utf-8)

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Metadata Fields (Advanced)

• template: Location of the template used to render the slides (default: default.mustache)
• layout: Location of the layout template used to render everything (default: layout.mustache)

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Other Slides

Slides are separated by -- and are written in markdown.

Use h2 to define slide's title (denoted ##)

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Author Slide

If your metadata contains author information (name, url, twitter), an author slide will be inserted at the end of your presentation.

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That's all, folks!

Seriously, that's it. Bochar is perfect for quick slideshows that you can create using a comfortable format with Shower ribbon template. No extra software or text boxes required.

Check us out on GitHub.