xuehuichao/freemind-latex repository overview

⁠Focus on Ideas, and Slides will Follow

This tool converts a mindmap into PDF slides (via LaTeX beamer). You can write complex yet fine-tuned slides⁠ with this tool.

⁠Usage

Go to an empty directory and start editing it

cd /path/to/your/document/directory
freemindlatex

It will bring up freemind for editing, evince for slides preview, and keep monitoring the file changes. While you edit the mindmap, slides content will refresh.

⁠Why not just PowerPoint?

Tweaking fonts suck. But you do it all the time.

• During the first round.
• After you move slides.
• After you add content.
• After you indent a paragraph
• ...

With freemindlatex, we ask you to just focus on the logic.

• Work on the outline, with freemind.
• Auto formatting, with LaTeX beamer.
• Bonus: LaTex math equations for free.

⁠Installation

The tool runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows, with Python.

First, make sure you install evince, or skim as the PDF viewer:

1. Evince, for linux and Windows: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince⁠
2. Skim, for MacOS: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/⁠

Then install it with

pip install freemind-latex

⁠Running LaTeX locally

By default, this tool connects to my server (sword.xuehuichao.com:8117) for LaTeX compilation. You may also run latex on your own computer. In this case, please make sure you have the full texlive (https://www.tug.org/texlive⁠) installed.

1. On MacOS: https://tug.org/mactex/⁠
2. On Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install texlive-full

Then, instead of freemindlatex, please run freemindlatex local in your working directory.

⁠For development

⁠Testing

virtualenv testenv
source testenv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade . && python -m pytest tests/

⁠Release

python setup.py sdist
python setup.py bdist_wheel
python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
twine upload dist/*