A lot of users of the slides option in IPython.nbconvert asked me about how to get a pdf from the generated Reveal.js-based slideshow.

To make the story short, here you have the detailed steps:

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I write a lot stuff inside the IPython notebook.

And I thought it would be great to have a sort of Zen mode for the notebook...

I mean, a peaceful user interface to write my blog posts (and other stuff, of course).

So I wrote a little js extension which give me this Zen mode.

You can see some screen shots below:

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With the integration of nbconvert inside IPython, the last 1.0 release has the possibility to export the ipynb to other formats such as rst, markdown, latex, html and slides (info).

The slides option generates a Reveal.js-powered HTML slideshow, like this one:

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Do you want to easily deploy your site to Github pages?

OK, here we go...

1. You have to upload your complete blog/site to a new Github repository (you know how to do it... if not, probably you need to learn some things before try this one, hehe). As a plus, now your blog/site is version-controlled!

2. Almost for sure, your site/blog lives in the master branch of the new repository, but you need to generated a gh-pages branch to push your build or output folder, I mean your site/blog content to deploy... not all the machinery of your site/blog platform (Nikola in my case):

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I am pleased to announce the new version of the IPython plugin for Nikola.

This new version has been incorporated into Nikola master a few weeks ago, so it is now available in the last release of Nikola, 5.5.1.

Now that IPython has achieved the 1.0 release, and with the incorporation of nbconvert as a part of the IPython machinery, the IPython plugin no longer needs to use a customized version of the old nbconvert, instead it is now using the the power of the new IPython.nbconvert infrastructure to export the ipynb files to HTML pieces to be rendered by Nikola.

With the simplification of the infrastructure, it is now easier to setup your blog to use the plugin following this five steps:

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Just a little tip...

You know that Nikola support TEASERS... if not, you can read more about that here: teasers_info.

In a few words, if you don't want to show the complete content of your posts at the index page, but instead display only the beginning of them, you only need to add a "magical comment" in a markdown cell:

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