This is great.
LaTeX beamer or Google Drive has been my choice so far. I will give this one a try.
Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
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Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
* Out of the box reveal-js does not support Markdown Slides. Yes, of course they do, but you'll have to write HTML per slide and then embed Markdown. p_slides is Markdown online. * reveal-js is _much_ bigger whereas p_slides relies on well tested and established software. For example many features that you can find on the reveal-js README are also included in p_slides, because it uses W3Org slidy-js[1]. p_slides actu…
You can also you Slide Show (S9) to generate Reveal.js slides from your markdown source. See https://github.com/slideshow-templates/slideshow-reveal.js as an example. The templates are Jekyll-compatible (and, thus, work "out-of-the-box" on GitHub Pages (no plugin required). See http://slideshow-templates.github.io/slideshow-reveal.js/sli... as a live demo. Cheers.
Thanks for that hint! p_slides is explicitly dumb, though. It has no requirements to install additional software, pre-compile anything or run a server. This way it just works for many lecturers on different Operating Systems with very different areas of expertise and continues to do so without any changes after 5 years. Hosting on GH Pages is totally awesome for us developers, however my primary use case is to have the slides self-contained (no dependencies) in a private repository with other lecturers for using them in the university.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#83Do anybody simplify LaTeX for these kind of jobs? Sometimes I think they have much in common, except that LaTeX is much more complicated.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can also you Slide Show (S9) to generate Reveal.js slides from your markdown source. See https://github.com/slideshow-templates/slideshow-reveal.js as an example. The templates are Jekyll-compatible (and, thus, work "out-of-the-box" on GitHub Pages (no plugin required). See http://slideshow-templates.github.io/slideshow-reveal.js/sli... as a live demo. Cheers.
Thanks for that hint! p_slides is explicitly dumb, though. It has no requirements to install additional software, pre-compile anything or run a server. This way it just works for many lecturers on different Operating Systems with very different areas of expertise and continues to do so without any changes after 5 years. Hosting on GH Pages is totally awesome for us developers, however my primary use case is to have t…
Hello, FYI: The output of Slide Show (S9) is a self-contained static site (works anywhere incl. of course private repos etc.) - you can also create a single-file PDF as an option. Only the templates "require" GitHub Pages or Jekyll if you want a "live" preview for demos. Cheers. PS: More info @ http://slideshow-s9.github.io
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you elaborate? How does it not scale? It's using bootstrap for styling, so there's that. Me and a couple of lecturer peers have been using it in lectures for classes of all sizes which includes different kinds of beamers. As you stated, my machine will also auto-scale resolution in this scenario. If all else fails, there's Strl++/- (; I'm also using it on OS X and Debian. Both work well. And as is recognizable…
Well I could ctrl +/-, but then have to worry some slide mid-presentation will still be too large and have to shrink again. With PowerPoint / keynote and friends, I can be sure all my text will fit on the screen, even if I end up on a stupid 800x600 projector. No HTML framework, except my hacky mess, seems to do that. Maybe resizing mid presentation bothers other people less than me.
Ok, I do understand now. In my career, I have not met a 800x600 projector - but the problem scales (pun intended^^), of course.
Would you be willing to share your hacky mess or make a PR? I really do get what you're referring to now and do think that if you won't contribute, I'll have to write my own hacky mess(;
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for that hint! p_slides is explicitly dumb, though. It has no requirements to install additional software, pre-compile anything or run a server. This way it just works for many lecturers on different Operating Systems with very different areas of expertise and continues to do so without any changes after 5 years. Hosting on GH Pages is totally awesome for us developers, however my primary use case is to have t…
Hello, FYI: The output of Slide Show (S9) is a self-contained static site (works anywhere incl. of course private repos etc.) - you can also create a single-file PDF as an option. Only the templates "require" GitHub Pages or Jekyll if you want a "live" preview for demos. Cheers. PS: More info @ http://slideshow-s9.github.io
Hi Gerald
S9 really looks nice - however, it is not self contained in the sense that I was referring to. p_slides is essentially a single HTML file (with the other assets hosted somewhere).
For S9, Ruby and usage of the command line is required. For a developer, that's not a big issue, of course. Myself, I'm a Ruby/JS/Clojure dev, so I do not mind installing one more gem(; However, my goal was to _really_ make p_slides self-contained. There is no need to install anything, run any pre-compiler or run the slide within a web-server. It doesn't even use npm or bower to install the assets. With this methodology, p_slides certainly is technologically less complex (or interesting^^), but it continues to work after years without any change on any computer that has a browser. That's just not happening with Ruby or Node or any other dependency. I'm not saying the latter is bad (it is not at all!), I'm saying this simplicity ability to be completely self-contained with no tooling required was the specific design decision for p_slides and it served me and a couple lecturers well. I basically made no advertisement for it, I just wrote it, because I wanted something that just works and I can distribute to students, too.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well I could ctrl +/-, but then have to worry some slide mid-presentation will still be too large and have to shrink again. With PowerPoint / keynote and friends, I can be sure all my text will fit on the screen, even if I end up on a stupid 800x600 projector. No HTML framework, except my hacky mess, seems to do that. Maybe resizing mid presentation bothers other people less than me.
Ok, I do understand now. In my career, I have not met a 800x600 projector - but the problem scales (pun intended^^), of course. Would you be willing to share your hacky mess or make a PR? I really do get what you're referring to now and do think that if you won't contribute, I'll have to write my own hacky mess(;
Older projectors have this resolution, but 1024x768 is more common. Some of the projectors at my university are 800x600 and I've run into them at conferences where the hotel conference facilities are older and haven't kept up.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#88Do anybody simplify LaTeX for these kind of jobs? Sometimes I think they have much in common, except that LaTeX is much more complicated.
I typically have used either Beamer (what I currently use) or Prosper (what I used to use) document classes in LaTeX for my slides and have since probably the 90s. For me, the big thing with using LaTeX is that I can get consistent fonts between the equations on my slides and the symbols in my figures since I draw my figures using LaTeX in some way (usually TikZ or Sketch[0]). Plus, I can have my figures under source control in a manner that supports simple diffs.
[0] http://sketch4latex.sourceforge.net/
Note that Sourceforge was down when I checked, but this should be the right URL.
Re: Marp: Markdown Presentation Writer
#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disagree all you like. The same is true of org-mode with reveal, or Marp, or any of myriad other tools. There's no magic to suckless software. It's just a lot more opinionated than most, a trait which plainly suits you well.
Now see, that I agree with. I merely disagree that sent's useless unless you have a taste for NIH.
Who called it useless? But ascribing rampant NIH to suckless is hardly a strain on credulity; otherwise they'd just use FreeBSD, instead of reinventing it piecemeal on the Linux kernel.