Manta

A Framework for building Presentation Slides and themed Videos with Manim.

• Github: Manta
• Pypi: Manta
• Documentation: Manta Docs

Description

Manta originated from the idea of creating presentation slides with Manim in an easy and time-efficient way. PowerPoints has extensions and libraries such as Efficient Elements to get done presentations faster and more efficiently. Manta essentially tries to do the same for Manim.

Manta is a framework that provides a set of useful tools to create presentation slides with Manim. It features the following components:

• SlideTemplates: Manta provides a set of predefined slide templates that can be used to create slides.
• Theming: Manta provides a set of predefined themes and the possibility to create custom themes. Predefined themes include Catppuccin and Tokyo Night.
• Icons: Manta provides a waste set of icons that can be used in the slides that you might know from using Nerdfonts.
• Editor: Manim-Editor is a GUI for creating slides with Manim. Mantas slides are designed to be used with Manim-Editor.
• Examples: Manta provides a set of examples to get started with creating slides.

Table of Contents

• Quickstart
• Documentation
• Contributing
• State of the Project
• Roadmap
• Contact

Quickstart

For the default Manta Theme, the following Nerd Fonts are required to be installed on your system:

• IosevkaTermSlab
• Symbols Nerd Font

You can find the installation instructions for the Nerd Fonts here

First install manta via pip:

pip install manta-manim-theme

Then update manim to the latest version:

pip install -U manim

you might see the following error:

ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts.
manim-editor 0.3.8 requires manim<0.14.0,>=0.13.1, but you have manim 0.18.1 which is incompatible.

Manta uses Manim-Editor for creating slides. Unfortunately the Manim-Editor dependency is a bit dated and states that it is only compatible with Manim version up to 0.13.1. However, Manta is actually required to use a more recent version of Manim (the initial manta package was developed with the manim version 0.18.1).

Documentation

The documentation for Manta can be found here.

Here are also other resources that might be helpful:

• Manim Documentation
• Manim-Editor Documentation
• Manim-Community Discord

Contributing

If you want to contribute to Manta, you can do so by creating a pull request. If you add new features, please make sure to add minimal test and a example for them in the docs. Currently there is no automated testing for Manta, I am also unsure if there is a feasible way to test the output of the slides.

State of the Project

I am using Manta myself to create slides for my presentations, that need to be especially fancy. This will not change in the near future. I assume that I will continue to develop Manta and add new features to it till at least the end of 2027.

Roadmap

• [ ] Add automated testing with tox and pytest
• [ ] Fix Manim-Editor version compatibility

Contact

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me via email

Dev

build

poetry build

upload on PyPi

twine check dist/** twine upload dist/**

docs

sphinx-autobuild docs/source/ docs/build/html/