README

This is the source code of the presentation of my Ph.D. defense. It is written in Haskell and uses the HaTeX library to generate the LaTeX code of both the style file and the presentation file. The presentation produced by this project can be seen on SlideShare.

Dependencies

HaTeX of course, Shake that is used as build system (see the Shakefile) and a pdflatex command in the path. If you don't have pdflatex or you don't use pdflatex then you have to edit the Shakefile to use your compiler.

Generate the Presentation

To compile the project, execute the Shakefile from the project directory:

runhaskell Shakefile

this will create a directory build/ with three subdirectories:

• build/dist/ is used for the output of GHC
• build/gen-sources/ contains the produced LaTeX code
• build/output/ contains the output of the LaTeX compiler and in particular the presentation called build/output/main.pdf

Generated Files

The important files that the Shakefile creates are:

• build/output/main.pdf the presentation file
• build/dist/build/createPaper/createPaper the executable that when run creates the LaTeX source code
• build/gen-sources/main.tex and build/gen-sources/mainStyle.tex the generated one-line LaTeX source code of the presentation and the style. Sadly, the source code generate is in one-line and without spacing, so in the same directory there are also two alternative files called mainPretty.tex and mainStylePretty.tex that should be easier to read. The reason why we generate both is that HaTeX doesn't guarantee that the output of the pretty printing is correct.

Source Code Organization

The source code of the presentation is in the src/ directory and it is organized as follow:

• src/Main.hs contains the main function responsible for creating both the style file, with source code in src/Style.hs, and the presentation file, whith source code in src/Presentation.hs
• src/Style/Outer.hs the outer style of the presentation
• src/Style.hs the style of the presentation, based on CambridgeUS but with my outer style
• src/Presentation.hs the presentation itself
• src/Commands.hs a set of commands not available in HaTeX that I used to do this presentation
• src/Utils.hs some utility functions

In the same directory there is also a TiKZ file called src/responsetimes.tex that is taken from the thesis and used as it is.