General ⇒ Build Script for Course Handouts based on »beamer«

[jeroendoggen]

Hello everyone,

I am a new user on this forum, but I have been using LaTeX for several years.

I would like to share a small project that I have been working on the last days: "LaTeX Handouts Builder", a build Script for Latex-beamer based course handouts. What is it does:

• Build multiple LaTeX beamer slide sets with one command:

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  python build.py

• Convert the slides to a printer-friendly format (no slide transitions, six slides per page, less colors)
• Build a main "course handouts book" with all the slides (one chapter per slide set, title page, introduction, table of contents, ...)
• Create a ZIP archive with all the documents

I have been using a small Bash script with almost the same functionality for a long time. Some background information on this old script can be found by following the link.

As a new user, I was not sure where to post this message. Please let me know it if this post belongs somewhere else.