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smilingbuddha
smilingbuddha

Reputation: 14670

Getting asciidoc to generate slides with embedded latex

I am interested in generating slides using asciidoc markup. Thus far I have been able to generate some slides using asciidoc tool by passing the flag -b slidy to the asciidoc executable as given here: https://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/slidy.html#(3)

However, when I try to embed Latex expressions like $\alpha + \beta$ it just gets rendered as is. I know there is a tool called asciidoctor-latex which can be used for generating "normal" HTML pages / PDF files containing the Latex symbols but when I tried -b slidy flag with asciidoctor-latex I get the error

asciidoctor: FAILED: missing converter for backend 'slidy'. Processing aborted. (RuntimeError)
  Use --trace for backtrace

How should I go about installing the necessary slidy backend?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 268

Answers (1)

Bitnacht
Bitnacht

Reputation: 1

As far as I am aware there is a backend for slidy included in the asciidoc program (python) distribution, but currently there is no such backend for asciidoctor (the ruby implementation of AsciiDoc).

You can generate LaTeX with asciidoc (python) LaTeX Backend, but that probably won't help with embedding formulas in slidy. I guess it is easier to write a preprocessor script that replaces your LaTeX-Code with an svg-image (external reference to a file generated by eg. dvisvgm).

Upvotes: 0

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