My only feedback is to commend the author on including a "Similar projects" section in the README file. I love when authors are not afraid to compare their projects to other similar pieces of work.
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
#72My only feedback is to commend the author on including a "Similar projects" section in the README file. I love when authors are not afraid to compare their projects to other similar pieces of work.
In fact, there already is such a (okay, rather short) section in the README [0].
But I plan to incorporate the other tools mentioned here.
Only the feature comparison table with all of these tools against all of the features mentioned here will have to wait, I am afraid...
[0]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck#similar-projects
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#73The title says collaborative, but the about says: "easy to collaborate-n-reuse: text-only, so bring your own VCS" If it requires a VCS isn't everything collaborative?
It does not _require_ a VCS, but you can bring/use your own quite easily. Why? because most of the slide sources are in text format, so working with them under version control is easy compared to the big binary blobs known from powerpoint/pages/...
Thanks, I understand that.
It's just that I would expect it to be built in if you're mentioning it in the title of the submission like that.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#74How does it ASCII to sketch work? (I am particularly interested in this "sketchy" example.)
It is based on another tool I have written, a2sketch[0]: that uses asciitosvg (still the php-variant[1]), generates a svg and feeds that into rough.js[2] (converts svg in sketchy svg) [0]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/a2sketch [1]: https://github.com/dhobsd/asciitosvg [2]: https://github.com/pshihn/rough
Thank you a lot, especially for this rough one.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#75I love that "offline-ready" is a feature that's becoming more and more supported and prominent. I don't know anyone else in the power user community who doesn't have home internet, but since getting rid of ours, I've made that feature a high priority of all apps I've been dreaming up and selling. I've even gone so far as to remove the concept of "live data sync" from all my apps, partially because it's so incredibly…
Are you on Scuttlebutt[0]? It's an offline-friendly social network, and some users are completely off-grid.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#76I love that "offline-ready" is a feature that's becoming more and more supported and prominent. I don't know anyone else in the power user community who doesn't have home internet, but since getting rid of ours, I've made that feature a high priority of all apps I've been dreaming up and selling. I've even gone so far as to remove the concept of "live data sync" from all my apps, partially because it's so incredibly…
Are you on Scuttlebutt[0]? It's an offline-friendly social network, and some users are completely off-grid. [0]: https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/
I've never heard of that, thanks for sharing it. I'm much too busy with interesting projects and client work to join yet another online social network, even one that's offline-friendly, but it's still really interesting to know it exists :)
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#77My only feedback is to commend the author on including a "Similar projects" section in the README file. I love when authors are not afraid to compare their projects to other similar pieces of work.
In fact, there already is such a (okay, rather short) section in the README [0]. But I plan to incorporate the other tools mentioned here. Only the feature comparison table with all of these tools against all of the features mentioned here will have to wait, I am afraid... [0]: https://github.com/arnehilmann/markdeck#similar-projects
> In fact, there already is such a [...] section in the README
GP knows. You were being commended for it. :-)
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#78I'm definitely going to look into that one. As a blind user who needs to do presentations sometimes, I hate wysiwyg and I always use text-based tools. My favorite is Spectacle [1], as it apparently looks pretty good and I can upload presentations to now with a nice, simple, memorable URL. It's amazing when you can just open up a browser, point it to an URL you remember and the presentation just opens. [1] https://git…
Remark.js looks similar but less complex I think.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#79What 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...
Lovely!
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#80I've been using Backslide [0] for all my lecture slides for a couple years now, seems quite similar. Backslide doesn't use pandoc though. [0]: https://github.com/sinedied/backslide
I tried Backslide for a recent presentation, but I'm not sure I can recommend it. Exporting things properly turned out to be quite hard.