Cleaver
Dev tools
markdown slideshow generator
SHOW HN2013
82points
24comments
#296of 1,739 in 2013
Top 18%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.11.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Lightweight and easy to hack on and customize
From 1 comment
Being so lightweight makes Cleaver far cooler, since that makes it easier to hack on it, and customize it.
dindresto on HN
Neat and well done
From 1 comment
I had a play and it seems really neat, congratulations. I ran "watch -n0.2 cleaver presentation.md" to preview changes, but there is probably a better way to do it with some sort…
sam152 on HN
Objections
Pandoc and existing tools already do this
From 3 comments
How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
adiM on HNPandoc does something pretty similar. But that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for both projects. Pandoc strives to be a universal converter, and that means there are…
Pitarou on HNSeems similar to mdpress, a ruby script which I've used successfully. https://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress
dergachev on HN
Bullet point slides encourage poor presentations
From 2 comments
Why do hackers need this simplistic bullet point slides? Encouraging death by bullet point? I could understand features like code-highlighting for hackers.
qznc on HNWhy not try something revolutionary and ditch slides altogether? Use the beamer for a demo or switch it off. Use your bullet point as presenter notes, but do not show them to the…
qznc on HN
Requests
Add URL support for slide navigation
From 1 comment
Very nice. I would suggest adding url support to be able to go back and forth between slides (using browser's back/fwd button), emailing dirct link to certain slides, etc.
imalolz on HN
Add reveal.js template option
From 1 comment
I would love to explore adding an optional to render a reveal.js slideshow, instead of using my "reinventing the wheel" approach. Shouldn't be terribly difficult, just a matter…
prezjordan on HN
Add PDF export
From 1 comment
maybe can add export option viz to pdf
khadim on HN
Add MathJax support
From 1 comment
this needs mathjax
zmjones on HN
Questions
How does it compare with Pandoc?
From 1 comment
How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
adiM on HN
Alternatives named
Pandoc
From 2 comments
How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations. [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
adiM on HNJust looking through the "HTML Slides" examples, seems like Pandodoc is more than capable of achieving what Cleaver does (and much, much more).
prezjordan on HN
Reveal.js
From 1 comment
Exactly. I've been looking out for (and possibly missed) a tool to make a Reveal.js-ish slideshow [1] from just markdown rather than 'HTML with optional markdown in each slide'.…
nilliams on HN
p_slides
From 2 comments
Good point, another similar tool p_slides[1] has just that. 1. https://github.com/munen/p_slides
preek on HNp_slides[1] does just that. 1. https://github.com/munen/p_slides
preek on HN
mdpress
From 1 comment
Seems similar to mdpress, a ruby script which I've used successfully. https://github.com/egonSchiele/mdpress
dergachev on HN
org-mode slides
From 1 comment
This is a nice project. I wrote my own version earlier, but it was not nearly as slick! I wanted fancy SVG-based animations, but never got it to a working state. Coincidentally,…
tikhonj on HN