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Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#12What I always miss in Markdown-ish mathjax-enabled tools is the ability to define symbols globally. E.g. in latex I always do "\renewcommand{\d}{\mathrm d} \newcommand{\re}{\mathbb R}" etc.
Do you mean something like this?
http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/tex.html#tex-macros
Okay, that made me curious and I gave it a try: please have a look at the slides.md and the resulting pdf
https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck/tree/master/docs/doc...
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of support do you have in mind? Converting a whole document, a couple of slides, or embedding latex code within a single slide? technical detail: markdeck uses pandoc[0] as converter; and, yes, there is a LaTeX-Importer available, too (besides the Markdown-Importer used now by markdeck). So, on a per-file basis, it should be quite easy to support other input formats than markdown (restructerdText might be a…
For my personal use case, embedding latex in a slide would be the best: I'd like to include equations alongside text and images, but I prefer writing markdown to latex where possible.
markdeck supports mathjax[0], might that be enough for your use case? An example can be found in the showcase[1]...
[0]: https://www.mathjax.org [1]: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-ma...
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#14How is this better than https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa... ? Oh! You've got other yummy things rolled in there like graphviz and more. Thanks! I've got an important presentation coming up on Thursday, I'll give this a go!
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#15How is this better than https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pa... ? Oh! You've got other yummy things rolled in there like graphviz and more. Thanks! I've got an important presentation coming up on Thursday, I'll give this a go!
maybe important/interesting for you: the pdf export.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#16So Markdeck lets you use ascii art via pandoc, as well as generating slides from text with titles, background images and background colors. It can also generate slides with "hand-written sketches" as in the complete slideshow: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-te... I tried to help by putting in a change request, but couldn't exactly figure out where the slides were coming from.
Can it really not include images in the output though? I didn't see an example in the showcase.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#17So Markdeck lets you use ascii art via pandoc, as well as generating slides from text with titles, background images and background colors. It can also generate slides with "hand-written sketches" as in the complete slideshow: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-te... I tried to help by putting in a change request, but couldn't exactly figure out where the slides were coming from.
Ahh, that should probably go into the documentation...
but for now: the `showcase`[0] gets rendered from the `examples` folder, here[1].
[0]: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/
[1]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck/tree/master/example
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#18So Markdeck lets you use ascii art via pandoc, as well as generating slides from text with titles, background images and background colors. It can also generate slides with "hand-written sketches" as in the complete slideshow: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-te... I tried to help by putting in a change request, but couldn't exactly figure out where the slides were coming from.
Can it really not include images in the output though? I didn't see an example in the showcase.
The word cloud and the stick figure are taken from the `assets/img` folder; you can reference ANY file you want, as long as it is located somewhere within the `assets` folder.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
For my personal use case, embedding latex in a slide would be the best: I'd like to include equations alongside text and images, but I prefer writing markdown to latex where possible.
markdeck supports mathjax[0], might that be enough for your use case? An example can be found in the showcase[1]... [0]: https://www.mathjax.org [1]: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/example-ma...
It might, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#20Extremely low-quality project. The only things I care about in presentation software are:
a) How do I export the presentation to some other computer? b) Will it even work on their ad-hoc configuration of hardware and software?
Everything else is a distant second consideration. The JS framework used under the hood is like #100 on the list of things I care about.