Markdown has really added simplicity for creating great content easily and fast..
to be fair this specific thing isn't very new, e.g. rabbit[0] allowed making slides with a simple text format ten years ago
Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
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Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#42Man, really sneaky with the extra t. I thought this was put out by the analytics shop YHat, the guys that built Rodeo and a couple other tools.
Really sneaky using one's proper name as a username?
(yhatt) Yuki Hattori https://github.com/yhatt
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is it compared to reveal.js? http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/
There is also http://strut.io/
Looks interesting, but is a completely different thing - it's a SaaS solution whereas p_slides is static files that you can put into version control and work collaboratively with your peers. For me, that's a godsend regarding the alternative workflows and other tools. My peer lecturers value it a lot, too. But of course, we are all CS lecturers^^ For other people a hosted solution might be a really interesting choice!
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#44How does one actually... well, display the presentation? (without the markdown on the side)
Under "Features", one of the bullet points are "* Export slides as PDF!". I don't know if that's the only option or if there are more than that.
Plus one on this. Switching to full screen (on a mac) should just go into "presentation" mode and show only the slide.
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#45This is great work. A lot of hate in this thread. But this app is free, open source with a MIT license, and super easy to use and nice looking.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#46This is great work. A lot of hate in this thread. But this app is free, open source with a MIT license, and super easy to use and nice looking.
I don't think there's a single negative comment in this thread.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#47Another shameless plug: I use this. Thanks pandoc.
https://github.com/yogsototh/mkdocs
It generates presentations from markdown with reveal.js and beamer. It also generates documents both HTML and PDF.
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#48Shameless plug: I'm a lecturer and have scratched this itch some time ago with a pet project that a couple lecturers are using now: https://github.com/munen/p_slides/ It doesn't ship it's own editor, because everyone already has a favorite(for me that's formerly vim, now Emacs). It's only static files, so it doesn't need a server or pre-compilation. It's extensible, has syntax highlighting and produces PDFs for the s…
If we're plugging, I'm very partial to Hovercraft, which throws a wrapper around impress.js, and provides a proper presenter's console as part of the rendered HTML/JS: https://github.com/regebro/hovercraft
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#49Markdown is fine for github, but isn't there even a slight bit of Helvetica-fatigue out there? Aren't we in a position, 20 years after HTML's widespread adoption, where we can aspire to something slightly more artful/communicative than Markdown's catastrophically simplistic and tragically ugly idea of layout?
Markdown represents, honestly, the massacre of the art of typography. It is ironic how such an ugly standard clashes with the its inventor's purported love for Apple, a company whose very DNA is about the beauty of layout, fonts, and the visual representation of the written word.
Markdown -> you have been weighed in the balance and found (severely) wanting.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Clarification: reveal.js supports markdown for individual slides. This project (Marp) allows you to write your whole presentation in a single markdown document. (Using just "---" to separate slides instead of repeating: slide markdown goes here ...seems like a productivity win IMO)
Reveal also supports this on external markdown files: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/#external-markdown My personal example: http://slides.mkii.org/#/1
We use this in generator-reveal[1]. One markdown file per slide and minimal configuration in a json file. I have no shame