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Not OP, but syntax highlighting and other niceties are probably going to disappear within most presentation software.

by XaspR8d 9y ago

mplewis 9y ago
Yep – I can't copy my code out of Atom and keep its highlighting in Keynote, unfortunately.
- zokier 9y ago
  sorry for the minirant This is something I find really frustrating in computing. We can do and are constantly doing such awesome and incredible things with computers. But at the same time transferring (copy-pasting) text from one application to another remains a challenge. And a reasonable solution for that is to bring in the 600lb gorilla that is a modern web browser to render fixed-width text into a bitmap so that it can be embedded into a presentation. It just feels so wrong, like the whole field is actually rotten inside under the shiny surface, while the state of the art blazes forwards thousand miles away from the real world. I, as a member of this community, feel utterly powerless to actually make the situation noticeably better, partly because of so much relies on interoperability, and partly because of the massive inertia that modern software carries. I want out.
  - yorwba 9y ago
    Clipboards support storing different content for different MIME types at the same time. Atom would have to put text/html (or some other colored markup) in addition to text/plain into the clipboard and then Keynote would have to know what to insert. The infrastructure for interoperability is there, the endpoints just need to actually support it. EDIT: Apparently, the problem is (or was in 2014) that Keynote doesn't support HTML and Chrome (Atom is Electron-based, right?) doesn't support RTF. Well worth a read: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124167 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124167
  - kuschku 9y ago
    There is a simple solution for that, and it exists on Android. On Android all text formatting is compatible between apps nicely, and can easily be copied between apps.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    Using Windows or OS X clipboard works perfectly fine, the author just uses applications that don't work as they should together. I can easily do the same with Notepad++ and Powerpoint, just need to copy-paste in RTF.
- jlgosse 9y ago
  Why not just do a screenshot of the code from Atom?
  - mcphage 9y ago
    That doesn't scale well beyond doing a handful of them, I would think.
    - mplewis 9y ago
      Exactly, and to get the screenshot exactly as I want takes a couple minutes of setup – pick a theme, pick a font size, resize window – plus a few more if I have to stitch scrolled pages together.
    - tedmiston 9y ago
      For code heavy presentations, I've seen a few people use Jupyter notebooks to solve this problem. Then just intermingle the rest of the presentation as markdown cells around the code cells.

Not OP, but syntax highlighting and other niceties are probably going to disappear within most presentation software.

mplewis 9y ago

Yep – I can't copy my code out of Atom and keep its highlighting in Keynote, unfortunately.

zokier 9y ago
sorry for the minirant This is something I find really frustrating in computing. We can do and are constantly doing such awesome and incredible things with computers. But at the same time transferring (copy-pasting) text from one application to another remains a challenge. And a reasonable solution for that is to bring in the 600lb gorilla that is a modern web browser to render fixed-width text into a bitmap so that it can be embedded into a presentation. It just feels so wrong, like the whole field is actually rotten inside under the shiny surface, while the state of the art blazes forwards thousand miles away from the real world. I, as a member of this community, feel utterly powerless to actually make the situation noticeably better, partly because of so much relies on interoperability, and partly because of the massive inertia that modern software carries. I want out.
- yorwba 9y ago
  Clipboards support storing different content for different MIME types at the same time. Atom would have to put text/html (or some other colored markup) in addition to text/plain into the clipboard and then Keynote would have to know what to insert. The infrastructure for interoperability is there, the endpoints just need to actually support it. EDIT: Apparently, the problem is (or was in 2014) that Keynote doesn't support HTML and Chrome (Atom is Electron-based, right?) doesn't support RTF. Well worth a read: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124167 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/124167
- kuschku 9y ago
  There is a simple solution for that, and it exists on Android. On Android all text formatting is compatible between apps nicely, and can easily be copied between apps.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Using Windows or OS X clipboard works perfectly fine, the author just uses applications that don't work as they should together. I can easily do the same with Notepad++ and Powerpoint, just need to copy-paste in RTF.
jlgosse 9y ago
Why not just do a screenshot of the code from Atom?
- mcphage 9y ago
  That doesn't scale well beyond doing a handful of them, I would think.
  - mplewis 9y ago
    Exactly, and to get the screenshot exactly as I want takes a couple minutes of setup – pick a theme, pick a font size, resize window – plus a few more if I have to stitch scrolled pages together.
  - tedmiston 9y ago
    For code heavy presentations, I've seen a few people use Jupyter notebooks to solve this problem. Then just intermingle the rest of the presentation as markdown cells around the code cells.