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
#2This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try.
For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage. I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with.
A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc.
If you're curious to see what those slides look like, check any of my previous talks [1].
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#3What 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.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#4This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage. I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with. A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc. If you're curious to see what those slides look like, ch…
I am huge fan of Deckset and use it for team internal presentations. Unfortunately, corporate identity is not something I could get working with Deckset. :(
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#5Does this support LaTeX? Or can support be added via a plugin?
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#6This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage. I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with. A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc. If you're curious to see what those slides look like, ch…
Looking forward to your feedback.
And: yes, deckset (as I learned today) sounds a lot like markdeck, feature-wise... I will have a closer look on that and compare these tools.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#7This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides is a massive advantage. I usually export them as pdf, which 99% of conferences are happy with. A big bonus is that you can now version control your slides, allow them to get forked, etc. If you're curious to see what those slides look like, ch…
Deckset looks really nice. Wish they had a Linux version.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#8Does this support LaTeX? Or can support be added via a plugin?
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 another candidate).
Embedding LaTeX in markdown might be a little bit more trickier, because we already use html-tags where markdown is not expressive enough... sigh
[0]: https://pandoc.org
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#9So 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.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#10Does this support LaTeX? Or can support be added via a plugin?
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.