It seems awesome, but we need to find out the actual reason.
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#22In the same vein there is Xaringan for R
https://github.com/yihui/xaringan
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#23For macOS users, Deckset is excellent (and native) → https://www.deckset.com
Self-Promotion: if you’d like iPad support and more features, I’ve been working on such an app for the last 2 years:
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#24Is there a similar tool that actually addresses the “death-by-PowerPoint” paradigm where people just paste slabs of text into slides and call it a presentation? Something where I can easily insert pictures and control the order of animations, while not fiddling around too much with the layout. Something like plantuml, but for slides?
I’ve been working on something like that for the past two years. It uses markdown, but extends it with a bit of syntax to set templates, layouts, and animations
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#25Slightly off topic but does anyone know a webbased slide editor that has responsive layout built in? Something like Indesign’s liquid layout feature?
There’s so much happening in this space and yet everyone sticks to fixed desktop format.
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#26This is very nice when you are willing to write basically code for your presentation, but nothing beats https://slides.com in productivity. It is the SaaS of the creator of Reveal.JS. I usually just make a monthly subscription when I need to make a new presentation, otherwise you can keep everything, just can't create new presentations. Basically "pay when you use it", very fair business model, worth every penny!
Thanks for sharing!
What would be the main advantage of this vs something like Google Slides?
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#27I have been using sent from sucklessat university. https://tools.suckless.org/sent/ Really simple and it has support for PNG with farbfeld.
Seconding "sent", I've basically prepared the presentation of my dissertation in a few hours using this and it looked great.
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#28Now if we can just get proper mindmapping in Markdown. I've tried all the libraries I could find and while they are pretty neat they still lack linking and other things like you'd get from XMind.
I've had trouble understanding the use case for mindmapping software, so I'd be curious to hear what you use Xmind for! I feel like I'd have to constantly fight with the layout to prevent my diagrams from turning into a big spaghetti mess. For most of the demos on their website, a simple nested list seems just as effective at communicating the same information.
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#29FYI: The slideshow (S9) command line tool (packaged up as a ruby gem) is a classic (10+ years old) evergreen, see http://slideshow-s9.github.io/
For slide templates supported (incl. reveal.js) see http://slideshow-templates.github.io
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#30For macOS users, Deckset is excellent (and native) → https://www.deckset.com
Self-Promotion: if you’d like iPad support and more features, I’ve been working on such an app for the last 2 years: https://hyperdeck.io/
Awesome, one of the pain points I have with Deckset is not having an iOS version. The other one is exporting to an HTML compatible mode (to keep animated GIFs… animated). I wrote my own tool (https://github.com/rberenguel/haskset) to leverage Pandoc and make a reveal.js export look like Deckset, but that's not ideal (basically, I don't have feature parity and any time I use a new feature I have to implement it…).