The project got superseded by the CodeImageGenerator project, which creates generally usable images instead of Presentation-specific output.

PresentationCodeFormatter is a Python script, which converts Java files/functions to a text file, which is readable by Presentation. This includes a rough custom syntax highlighting with Pygments.

I personally use this to convert short code snippets for empirical research on program comprehension (see Brains on Code). This means the script is personalized to my specific usage and probably not directly useful to you without changes.

Disclaimer: I am not a Python programmer. I'm always grateful for feedback on how to improve my code.

The main feature is to read all files from a directory and attempting to add syntax highlighting compatible with the syntax of Presentation to the output file(s).

Implemented so far:

• Reads all files from a directory, and parses one at a time
• Extracts just the function code from the file (and ignores the class, comments, etc around it)
• Uses Pygments to create syntax highlighting for each function
• Parses Pygments syntax highlighting to a Presentation-compatible format (still may be incomplete)
• Wraps code into a Presentation variable for seamless integration
• Output in separate files, or one large file

Things I still want to add:

• Command line support
• Better configuration (in particular the output color scheme)
• Allow multiple functions per file
• Allow functions besides public int, public String, public boolean
• Only read Java files
• Support for more languages than just Java

The project should run in any Python environment. It was developed and tested with the PyCharms IDE.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Norman Peitek