Currently the book is no longer published as a slide deck. In the future, a companion slide deck to the book might become available, so here's the documentation compiled for these formats
Downloads were available as PDF or PNG slides exported from Deckset, and as a html-version in reveal.js .
Deckset is nice to quickly hack together a beautiful presentation, but is a bit lacking when it comes to navigating larger presentations, and it's only available as a macOS app. Building the Hebrew version I discovered the hard way it does not support RTL languages., and did not find a way to automate pdf export, so with a growing number of languages Deckset is becoming increasingly painful.
This is why I was looking at more open formats, and developed a generator for reveal.js, which generally worked well enough.
The Markdown files for the individual patterns are grouped in directories per patterns group and built using a build script. Input format is Deckset 1 (for now), i.e. slide separators are "---". This will hopefully change in the future.
- Images always float right (because that works without clearing the float in reveal.js), and are set to height of 100%. Floating images go BEFORE the text, and are marked "right,fit"
- single images on slides: [inline,fit]
- Headline Level 1 is always the only content on the slide (apart from background images)
- Headline level 2 or more is increased by one for reveal.js
- within each pattern, the pattern title is headline level 2, all slides in patterns with a dedicated title need to use headline level 3, so it does not show up in the TOC on the website
Download zip from the official repo and copy files over to docs/reveal.js. Diff templates/revealjs-template.html with demo.html to see if there are some changes to the basic html structure.
Keep (or adapt) custom-styles.css and custom-theme.css (derived from css/theme/white.css.