]> http://lopsa.org/taxonomy/term/175/0 en http://lopsa.org/node/1562 <p>Something—I'm honestly not sure what—has changed in Mac OS X Leopard in a subtle way that has totally derailed my workflow for making presentations involving code samples.</p> <p>I give a lot of Keynote talks that are very heavy on code samples. For years, I've had a workflow for creating code-sample slides that's worked pretty well for me:</p> <p>First, I create a directory for the slide show. Inside is my Keynote presentation, and subdirectories for ancillary materials. The relevant ones here are <em >code-samples/</em> and <em >images/</em>.</p> <p>In the <em >code-samples/</em> directory, I create little files containing the code fragments. I edit them in <a href="http://aquamacs.org/">Aquamacs Emacs</a> (a very nice Aqua GUI for GNU Emacs) which gives me code syntax highlighting:</p> <!-- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://lopsa.org/node/1562" dc:identifier="http://lopsa.org/node/1562" dc:title="Leopard Preview cropping weirdness is driving me crazy" trackback:ping="http://lopsa.org/trackback/1562" /> </rdf:RDF> --> Mac OS X Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:09:00 -0800 trey