# -*- rd -*-
= README.en
$Id: README.en 1420 2010-10-24 14:42:20Z kou $
== Name
Rabbit
== What is it?
Rabbit is an RD-document-based presentation application.
Rabbit has some features which set it apart from other
presentation tools:
* Use plain Ruby to define the look of your slides
* Lots of keyboard commands
* Mouse gesture support.
* and more...
== Screenshots
(())
== Author
=== Program
Kouhei Sutou
=== Images (1)
* Lavie (mascot) ((-Lavie's sense of language is from Rabbit
and spell is from `la vie' in French.-)) and Rabbit logos.
(cute rabbit)
* Tailavi and Taiyaki
gluttonous rabbit loves Taiyaki.
* Banner
(cute banner)
MoMo
=== Images (2)
* USAGI (in Kanji)
the cool rabbit.
* KAME
the cute turtle.
sode
=== Images (3)
Flags.
gan
=== Images (4)
* Rabbit pink logo
* Ruby pink logo
* USA-TARO
* KAME-TARO
* TANU-KITARO (TANU-san)
* YUKIDARU-TARO (YUKIDARU-san)
usatti
=== Images (5)
* YUKI-USA
pretty rabbit girl in Japanese dress.
* Alice
pretty girl in blue dress.
asahina
(())
=== Mode for xyzzy
misc/xyzzy/
Mr. MIYAMUKO
=== Mode for Emacs
misc/emacs/
Atsushi Takeda
=== RabbIRC
bin/rabbirc
akira yamada
=== Rabbitter
bin/rabbitter
OBATA Akio
== Co-Authors
* Mr. MIYAMUKO
* Mr. noritada
* Atsushi Takeda
== Copyright
The code author retains copyright of the source code. In
other words the committer retains copyright of his or her
committed code and patch authors retain the copyright of
their submitted patch code.
The images above are copyright their respective owners.
== License
Licensed under GPLv2 or later. For more information see
'GPL' file. Provided patches, codes and so on are also
licensed under GPLv2 or later. Kouhei Sutou can change their
license. Authores of them are cosidered agreeing with those
rules when they contribute their patches, codes and so on.
lib/rabbit/div/prototype.js released under an MIT-style
licence. For more information see (()).
If you want to get a copy of the mascot character PSD files
ask the program author. He'll forward the request to the
author of the image.
== Mailing list
To Subscribe to the mailing list send an e-mail To
rabbit-shockers-en@ml.cozmixng.org , please Cc:
kou@cozmixng.org and put anything in the Subject and Body.
((<"rabbit-shockers-en@ml.cozmixng.org"|URL:mailto:rabbit-shockers-en@ml.cozmixng.org?cc=kou@cozmixng.org&subject=Join!>)).
== Development status
You can stay up to date on the latest development by
subscribing to the SVN commit ML or (()). If you
want to subscribe to the ML, send an e-mail like the following.
To: rabbit-commit@ml.cozmixng.org
Cc: null@cozmixng.org
Subject: SOMETHING
SOMETHING
== Requests
Please contribute great themes because I have no artistic
sense.
Rabbit lacks documentation. Please help out!
Please translate rabbit into your native language. You can make
po/#{LANG}/rabbit.po by the running the following:
% mkdir po/#{LANG}
% ./update-po.rb
== Dependencies
See (()) for how to install the
dependencies in Windows.
* (())
* Ruby/GTK2 in (())
=== Suggested programs/libraries
* mimeTeX (for writing TeX in RD)
* gs (for reading EPS)
* Ruby/RSVG in (()) (for beautiful scaling
SVG)
* (()) (for displaying localized messages)
* (())
* (())
* LaTeX
* Tgif
* Dia
* GIMP
* HikiDoc
=== Included libraries
* SOAP interface of (()).
== Download
(())
% svn co http://www.cozmixng.org/repos/rabbit/trunk rabbit
== Install
# ruby setup.rb
Execute install.bat if you are on Windows.
=== Gentoo (Portage)
% sudo env ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 FEATURES="digest" emerge rabbit
is just ((%% sudo emerge rabbit%)) enough?
== Usage
% rabbit XXX.rd
or
% rabbit --type file XXX.rd
or ...
Type the following if you want to run sample/rabbit_en.rd.
% rabbit --type file sample/rabbit_en.rd
However, some samples use themes in sample/rabbit/theme and
are not displayed correctly when run from the top directory.
It's better to run the samples from the sample directory.
If you are a Windows user, you can drag and drop an RD file
onto bin/rabbit.bat.
Otherwise you can invoke Rabbit by double clicking an RD file if
you associate *.rd (or *.rbt (an abbreviation of Rabbit))
with the following.
\bin\rubyw -S rabbit
=== Options
: -t, --theme=THEME
Specifies the theme.
: -I, --include=PATH
Adds PATH to the load path. Load paths are used to find themes.
: -B, --base=BASE
Specifies the URI or path to resolve relative paths in the
input. (For example, the path of image). If you don't
specify it, it'll automatically decide based on the input
source type.
: -T, --type=TYPE
Specifies the input source type.
Available types are rwiki, file (default), argf and uri .
: argf
Uses ARGF as input source. This means, you can
input via standard input.
Note: argf doesn't support the auto source reload feature.
Example:
% rabbit --type argf file1.rd file2.rd ...
or
% cat file1.rd file2.rd ... | rabbit --type argf
or
% rabbit --type argf
= title
...
^D
or...
: file
Default. This means, `--type argf' is optional.
Gets source from specified file.
Supports the auto source reload feature.
Example:
% rabbit --type file file.rd
: uri
Gets source from the specified URI.
You can use the auto source reload feature. But
Rabbit will only reload once every 60 seconds for
performance reasons.
Example:
% rabbit --type uri http://www.cozmixng.org/repos/rabbit/trunk/sample/rabbit-implementation.rd
or
% rabbit --type uri ftp://.../XXX.rd
or ...
Incidentally,
% rabbit --type uri file:///.../XXX.rd
and
% rabbit --type uri /.../XXX.rd
are same as
% rabbit --type file /.../XXX.rd
: rwiki
Uses the content of the specified RWiki's page as
the source. RWiki must have the SOAP interface enabled.
You can use the auto source reload feature. But
Rabbit will only reload once every 60 seconds for
performance reasons.
Example:
% rabbit --type rwiki #{URI of SOAP interface of RWiki} #{page name}
The encoding of #{page name} is the same as the RWiki
page's encoding.
: memory
Manage the source in memory. In this type, the source
can be modified by the dRuby/SOAP/etc. interfaces.
You can set initial source by specifying a file name.
Example (without initial source):
% rabbit --type memory
Example (with initial source):
% rabbit --type memory file.rd
: -e, --encoding=ENCODING
Specifies encoding of the input source.
Default is auto-detect.
: -f, --full-screen, --no-f, --no-full-screen
Specifies whether Rabbit is invoked in full screen mode.
Default is no.
: --index-mode, --no-index-mode
Specifies whether Rabbit is invoked in index mode.
Default is no.
: -w, --width=WIDTH
Specifies the width of the window.
Default is 800.
: -h, --height=HEIGHT
Specifies the height of the window.
Default is 600.
: -S, --size=WIDTH,HEIGHT
Specifies the width and height of the window.
: -s, --save-as-image
Saves each slide as image and exit.
: -i, --saved-image-type=TYPE
Specifies image type to save as.
For example, png (default), jpeg etc.
: -b, --saved-image-base-name=BASE_NAME
Specifies base name of the saved image. Saved image's
file name is "#{base name}#{page number}.#{extension}".
Default is the title of the slide.
If the encoding of your file system isn't UTF-8 and the
saved filename is UTF-8, you may need to setup an
environment variable such as LANG and
G_FILENAME_ENCODING.
: --output-html, --no-output-html
Specifies whether Rabbit generates HTML or not for
viewing saved slides.
Default is off.
: --output-index-html, --no-output-index-html
Specifies whether Rabbit generates an index HTML file
with thumbnailed slides or not.
Default is off.
: -p, --print
Prints slide and exit. You can print to file or directory
send printer by using --output-filename.
But the quality is not good.
: -o, --output-filename=FILENAME
Specifies printed file name. Printed format is decided by
the extension. The printed format is PostScript when the
extension is .ps, PDF when extension is .pdf and
PostScript otherwise.
You can send the output formatted by PostScript to a
program by specifying "|program-name".
Default is "#{title of slide}.ps".
: --paper-width=WIDTH
Specifies the width (in inches) of the paper when printing.
Default is the width of landscape A4.
: --paper-height=HEIGHT
Specifies the height (in inches) of the paper when printing.
Default is the height of landscape A4.
: --paper-size=WIDTH,HEIGHT
Specifies the width and height of the paper when printing.
The width and height is in inches.
Default is the size of landscape A4.
: --slides-per-page=SLIDES
Specifies slides per page.
Default is 1.
: --margin=={ALL|TOP_BOTTOM,LEFT_RIGHT|TOP,LEFT_RIGHT,BOTTOM|TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM,LEFT}, --margin-*=MARGIN
Specifies margin of slide when slides per margin is
greater than 1.
Default is automatically computed by using slides per
page. But the algorithm doesn't work very well when
the slides per page is anything other than 2 or 8.
: --page-margin=={ALL|TOP_BOTTOM,LEFT_RIGHT|TOP,LEFT_RIGHT,BOTTOM|TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM,LEFT}, --page-margin-*=MARGIN
Specifies page margin when printing.
Default is 0.
: --locale-dir=DIR
Specifies the directory which has the locale data (*.mo).
If you want to use Rabbit without installing to system,
you can type the following in the top directory.
% ruby -I./lib bin/rabbit --locale-dir data/locale sample/rabbit-en.rd
Default is /usr/local/share/locale/,
/usr/share/locale/ and so on.
: --logger-type=TYPE
Specifies how display the error log. If you specify `gui',
the error log is displayed. You should specify --logger-type
option because errors may occur when parsing rabbit's options.
% rabbit --logger-type gui ...
Default is stderr which outputs the log to standard error
output.
: --use-druby, --no-use-druby
Specifies whether to use dRuby interface.
Default is use.
: --druby-uri=URI
Specifies dRuby interface URI.
Default is druby://:10101.
: --output-druby-uri, --no-output-druby-uri
Specifies whether to output dRuby interface URI.
Default is not output.
: --use-soap, --no-use-soap
Specifies whether to use SOAP interface.
Default is not use.
: --soap-host=HOST
Specifies SOAP interface host.
Default is 0.0.0.0.
: --soap-port=PORT
Specifies SOAP interface port.
Default is 10103.
: --use-xmlrpc, --no-use-xmlrpc
Specifies whether to use XML-RPC interface.
Default is not use.
: --xmlrpc-host=HOST
Specifies XML-RPC interface host.
Default is 0.0.0.0.
: --xmlrpc-port=PORT
Specifies XML-RPC interface port.
Default is 10104.
: --server, --no-server
Specifies whether to run as server.
Default is not server.
: --public-level=LEVEL
Specifies what Rabbit functions are public to external
interfaces (dRuby/XML-RPC/SOAP). Select public level from
strict, move, read-size, change-size, size, read-source,
change-source, source and all. The later the public level
indicates that Rabbit publishes more functions.
Default is strict.
: --comment-source=FILE
Specifies initial comment source file name.
Default is simple comment source provided by system.
: --comment-encoding=ENCODING
Specifies comment source encoding.
Default is auto-detect.
: --migemo-dictionary-search-path=PATH1,PATH2,...
Specifies search paths for Migemo's static
dictionary. Search paths are specified as a directory
that has a static dictionary whose name is specified by
--migemo-dictionary-name or as a path of a static
dictionary. Two or more search paths can be specified by
separating them with commas.
Default is /usr/local/share and /usr/share.
: --migemo-dictionary-name=NAME
Specifies Migemo's static dictionary name.
Default is migemo-dict.
: --use-gl, --no-use-gl
Specifies whether to use OpenGL if available.
Default is not use.
: --show-native-window-id, --no-show-native-window-id
Specifies whether show window ID if available.
Default is not show.
== How to write slides for Rabbit
See sample/rabbit-en.rd.
=== Page
The largest headline (=) is title of page. The page follows
next title.
= Title
SOMETHING
...
= Next Page
...
This example has two pages.
=== Title page
The first page is the title page. You can specify meta
information of the slide by using a labeled list (:) in the
title page.
= Title of slide
: author
Kouhei Sutou
: institution
COZMIXNG
This example shows the author is Kouhei Sutou and his
institution is COZMIXNG.
At the moment, you can specify subtitle, content_source and
even the theme. `theme" is the default theme of this slide.
=== Image
Written as a verbatim block. See sample/rabbit-en.rd.
=== Entity reference
Written as an inline verbatim. See sample/rabbit-en.rd.
=== Sub/Superscript
Written as an inline verbatim. See sample/rabbit-en.rd.
=== Headline
You can only use headlines for the biggest headline. (The
only headline you really need is the title, right?)
=== Footnote
You can footnotes but you shouldn't use it in a presentation.
== Theme
You can specify look and feel of the slide separate of RD.
This is the theme.
There is a slide for benchmarking your theme. It's
sample/theme-bench-en.rab.
=== Where do I place the theme?
Rabbit searches for themes by using ruby's $LOAD_PATH. If you make
a theme, place it into
((|PATH_OF_INCLUDED_IN_$LOAD_PATH/rabbit/theme/THEME_NAME/THEME_NAME.rb|))
or ((|DIRECTORY_OF_SOURCE_FILE/THEME_NAME.rb|)).
=== How do I write a theme?
A theme is just a Ruby script.
You may enumerate the following descriptions in your theme.
(1) Select some elements (paragraphs, titles and so on) of
the slide as a target.
(2) Change properties of selected elements and add actions.
For example, the following changes color of the title of each
page except the title page.
match(Page, HeadLine) do |heads|
heads.prop_set("foreground", "red")
end
=== Property
You can set some properties by using
(({prop_set})). (())
has more information.
: font_desc
Specifies font description.
: font_family
Specifies font family.
You can get a list of font families by using (({font_families})).
: face
Same as font_family.
: size
Specifies size of font.
If you specify size of font by numeric value, you should
convert the value by (({screen_size})) and multiply it by
(({Pango::SCALE})). The following example shows how to
specify size of font to 2 (in the Rabbit's theme world).
screen_size(2) * Pango::SCALE
: style
Specifies style of font.
: weight
Specifies weight of font.
: variant
Specifies variant of font.
: stretch
Specifies stretch of font.
: foreground
Specifies foreground.
: background
Specifies background.
: underline
Specifies kind of underline.
: rise
Specifies vertical position of character.
: strike through
Specifies whether use strike line or not.
: fallback
Specifies whether use alternative font or not when
specified font is not found.
: lang
Specifies the language.
: b
Changed to bold.
: big
Changed size of font to big.
: i
Changed to italic.
: s
Draws a strike line.
: sub
Changed to subscript.
: sup
Changed to superscript.
: small
Changed size of font to small.
: tt
Changed font family to fixed width font.
: u
Draws a underline.
=== Hooks
You can add procedures which are executed before/after
element is drawn by
(({add_pre_draw_proc}))/(({add_post_draw_proc})). And you
can remove them by
(({clear_pre_draw_procs}))/(({clear_post_draw_procs})).
The `default' theme has more code. Please see it.
== Tips
=== To make a PDF which has some slides per page
For example, we make XXX_multi.pdf which has 8 slides per
page from XXX.rd.
% rabbit -p --slides-per-page 8 -o XXX_multi.pdf XXX.rd
== Thanks
* MoMo: Drew some pretty images.
* MIYAMUKO: Wrote rabbit mode for xyzzy, and helps
make Rabbit work on Windows.
* zunda:
* Fixed EPS handling.
* Gave me advise for --margin.
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Updated INSTALL.win32.ja.
* Updated INSTALL.macosx-macports.{ja,en}.
* Vincent: Helped make Rabbit work on Max OS X. He also
made french messages.
* sode: Made the cool rabbit, cute rabbit and cute
turtle.
* Kazuhiko: Sent me many bug reports. He also makes
presentations with Rabbit and gives me ideas for theme
design.
* noritada: Sent me a bug report for document.
* gan: Wrote some flags.
* KAKUTANI:
* Sent me a bug report for document.
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Gave me ideas for new features and theme design.
* Gave me a patch to fix a bug related HTML
generation.
* Made a Mac OS X (Intel) package.
* atzm: Made Gentoo package (*.ebuild).
* akira yamada:
* Made Debian package (*.deb).
* Reports some bugs and also fixes them.
* Made rabbirc.
* usatti: Drew some logos and taro series images.
* dot: Helps with installation on Windows.
* tanaka: Checked operations on Windows.
* asahina: Drew the pretty rabbit girl and Alice.
* nskj77: Gave a name to FAQ page. He sends action
reporting and some bug reports.
* Atsushi Takeda: Wrote rabbit mode for Emacs.
* kimura wataru: Made a Mac OS X package.
* kitaj:
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Improved INSTALL.win32.en.
* Improved a theme.
* akapy: Wrote a document for emerge.
* OBATA Akio:
* Made a pkgsrc package.
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Reports some bugs and also fixes them.
* Helps debug many problems.
* Made Rabbitter.
* Masao Mutoh:
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Updated INSTALL.win32.ja.
* TADA Tadashi:
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Contributed his themes.
* Propposed the idea to have Rabbit provide a slide for
benchmarking your theme.
* Shugo Maeda:
* Makes presentations with Rabbit.
* Reported a bug.
* JunichiNakai: Reports bugs.
* Eduardo Gonzalez: Improves documents in English.
* Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA: Reported a bug.
* Masaki Suketa: Reported bugs related Ruby 1.9.
* kdmsnr: Reported a bug.
* Youhei SASAKI: The official Debian package maintainer.