SAT_YSF_I N_OTEBOOK: Computational Notebook Environment for Typesetting Presentation Slides

Abstract

For creating presentation slides, in which visual expressions are emphasized, WYSIWYG editors, such as PowerPoint, are preferred because they provide immediate feedback on fine layout adjustments. In contrast, for typesetting documents, typesetting systems that enable us to program object rendering and placement in a high-level manner are more effective. Although programming environments for high-level interactive typesetting are desirable for leveraging their advantages in slide creation, such environments are, unfortunately, not well developed. In this work, we present SAT_YSF_I N_OTEBOOK by extending the typesetting system SAT_YSF_I, which is based on a functional programming language, to support incremental evaluation and by integrating it into the interactive programming environment JupyterLab. SAT_YSF_I N_OTEBOOK enables the incremental creation of slide decks while interactively typesetting and previewing slides represented as high-level program fragments. In this paper, we provide the design and implementation of SAT_YSF_I N_OTEBOOK, along with observations obtained during its development.