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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

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Post by tcc_42 »

pondidum wrote: post #27

What advantage does this have over just using reveal.js's support for external markdown document for slides?

markdeck can create diagrams and charts on-the-fly (graphviz, ditaa, plantuml, a2s, Vega-lite). And it can export the slides as PDF or as standalone HTML file. Plus out-of-the-box auto-reloading the slides on change, emojis, font-awesome, math-jax, and some other stuff helpful when authoring slides...

But when you don't need any of the above, then markdeck in fact has no advantage over plain reveal.js and markdown.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#32

Post by pondidum »

tcc_42 wrote: post #31
pondidum wrote: post #27

What advantage does this have over just using reveal.js's support for external markdown document for slides?

markdeck can create diagrams and charts on-the-fly (graphviz, ditaa, plantuml, a2s, Vega-lite). And it can export the slides as PDF or as standalone HTML file. Plus out-of-the-box auto-reloading the slides on change, emojis, font-awesome, math-jax, and some other stuff helpful when authoring slides... But when you don't need any of the above, then markdeck in fact has no advantage over plain reveal.js and markdown.

Thanks for the reply, I might look into this for my next presentation (the graphviz could be pretty useful for me)

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#34

Post by djsumdog »

otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #20

Extremely 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.

Well this is based on reveal.js, which has been around for years, used by tons of people, and has a commercial product based around it (slides.com).

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#35

Post by Sean1708 »

otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #30
jmmcd wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a classic HN comment. Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Anyway, it exports pdf.

> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. People should cherish that. (I know I do.) My priority isn't esoteric, it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations. For the vast majority of people the problem they need solved is "will…

Out of interest, why will the exported PDF fail?

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#36

Post by djsumdog »

When I looked at it, I was like, "huh .. it's a lot like reveal.js" and then I looked carefully at the README and it is reveal.js, with extensions/mods.

I've used reveal.js for a while. I found it most useful when I did presentations for multiple meetups on the same open source project. I created a little build tool that let me re-use slides for Ruby, Scala and Python meetups (the service was written in Scala, client in Python and devops was all Ruby, but that's since been migrated to Docker):

https://github.com/bigsense/presentations

http://bigsense.github.io/

Tools like this are great if you have several similar presentations. Some of the additions in Markdeck are things I've kinda hacked in (like terminal output players). Still with a recent presentation where I did everything from scratch, I used the same build process and found it felt a bit much for something that didn't require the shared-slides use case and I wondered if I would have just saved time writing it in a GUI/WYSIWYG tool like OpenOffice or Powerpoint.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#37

Post by detaro »

otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #30
jmmcd wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a classic HN comment. Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Anyway, it exports pdf.

> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. People should cherish that. (I know I do.) My priority isn't esoteric, it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations. For the vast majority of people the problem they need solved is "will…

real feedback, based on not even reading the Readme fully but being sure it's "extremely low quality"?

And of course ignoring the fact that your "first concern" might not be so important for other people, who either seldom need export or can use HTML as an export format.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#38

Post by tomcooks »

Sean1708 wrote: post #35
otabdeveloper1 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. People should cherish that. (I know I do.) My priority isn't esoteric, it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations. For the vast majority of people the problem they need solved is "will…

Out of interest, why will the exported PDF fail?

because otherwise he'd have to admit he's been an irrationally harsh critic /s

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#39

Post by hoov »

This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a public bucket configured correctly to view the slides. It's annoying to have to carry every possible type of dongle and fight with A/V issues at random places when you need to show a deck on hardware that you don't control. I always make sure that the content I need to show is available on any machine with an internet connection, but it takes a lot of effort sometimes.

Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative

#40

Post by swaggyBoatswain »

hoov wrote: post #39

This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a public bucket configured correctly to view the slides. It's annoying to have to carry every possible type of dongle and fight with A/V issues at random places when you need to show a de…

slides.com uses their own s3 bucket to upload. But you can't add images or videos from your own s3 buckets / imgur / etc.
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