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Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by sandreas »

Nice work :-) I have a side project with the same goal. Some ideas:

  - Once started, no way back? How about double-click?
  - Background images would be nice, custom CSS?
  - How about loading URL contents (e.g. from github)
  - Auto agenda / TOC?
  - Support for Math, Charts, Code?
  - Export as single html?
  - Localstorage history?
  - Standardized GH repo layout `markshow` for listing, loading and showing all my presentations?
This is basically part of the feature list, I would like to implement for my personal tool.

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by rectang »

richardfey wrote: post #42
rectang wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reveal.js file format is HTML, an open standard, and will still be readable decades from now. Proprietary apps like Google Slides, I have to continually assess whether their file format is closed or has recently switched to being closed — because it is in the interest of the company to lock in its users and exploit network effects.

> The reveal.js file format is HTML, an open standard, and will still be readable decades from now. I don't think the javascript part is future-proof. Any client side UI rendering logic is tightly integrated with browsers' rendering quirks..

That's true, although to some degree the separation of semantics from styling in HTML/CSS/JS means that the structure of the document will be preserved. And at least HTML is a text format! How much can you recover from a proprietary binary format, when the app's not around any more? At best somebody has to reverse engineer it, and it could change in all sorts of undocumented ways between versions of the app.

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by the_arun »

kissgyorgy wrote: post #17

This 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!

What are the benefits of slides.com over Google slides which is free?

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by pickledish »

sandreas wrote: post #51

Nice work :-) I have a side project with the same goal. Some ideas: - Once started, no way back? How about double-click? - Background images would be nice, custom CSS? - How about loading URL contents (e.g. from github) - Auto agenda / TOC? - Support for Math, Charts, Code? - Export as single html? - Localstorage history? - Standardized GH repo layout `markshow` for listing, loading and showing all my presentations?…

You should check out the "advanced demo", it shows the tool actually does support a lot of the items you've mentioned (like background images, code, latex, and loading markdown from a URL):

https://mark.show/https://mark.show/demo.md#

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

#57

Post by hippospark »

sandreas wrote: post #51

Nice work :-) I have a side project with the same goal. Some ideas: - Once started, no way back? How about double-click? - Background images would be nice, custom CSS? - How about loading URL contents (e.g. from github) - Auto agenda / TOC? - Support for Math, Charts, Code? - Export as single html? - Localstorage history? - Standardized GH repo layout `markshow` for listing, loading and showing all my presentations?…

You may try Yu Writer, it supports bg images, toc, math, charts, code and general slide show functions.

https://hemashushu.github.io/yu-writer.site/

Re: Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown

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Post by jrm4 »

For the same thing, I use https://zim-wiki.org and its built in slide exporter. This allows me to keep my content in the same "notebook" for a nice all-in-one experience. It uses the "S5" system, which, I don't know how well that's been maintained, but the CSS was easy enough to modify.
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