Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
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Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#2Wow this is exactly what i've been looking for, can you select slide themes with this library?
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#3Very neat!
Just in case you don't know: something similar [0] exists for LaTeX, except it produces PDFs instead of Google Slides.
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#4Can someone explain why you would want to make slides from markdown? Surely its just as straightforward, if not easier, just to use the UI - genuinely curious
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#5Can someone explain why you would want to make slides from markdown? Surely its just as straightforward, if not easier, just to use the UI - genuinely curious
Perhaps you have existing MD notes that you would like to quickly reuse as slides?
Perhaps your workflow is MD based and you want a way to target Google Slides as an output in addition to the other targets that you already have?
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#6Can someone explain why you would want to make slides from markdown? Surely its just as straightforward, if not easier, just to use the UI - genuinely curious
Simplest answer for me would be the ability to use effective version control for slides.
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#7Can someone explain why you would want to make slides from markdown? Surely its just as straightforward, if not easier, just to use the UI - genuinely curious
Not always.
Having done this a fair bit, I've often found that if I have a somewhat minimal template (perhaps haven't gotten to the design stage of a talk and I'm just fleshing out the content of the slides), it's far slower to fire up a GUI and make 50-odd slides than it is to write a Markdown document.
Example:
---
#This is a headline
##This is my subhead.
* And * Some * bullets
---
That took me 14 seconds. Creating a new slide, 3 textboxes, and adding in the text in a GUI would take me significantly longer. And that multiplies up for each slide.
That's particularly true if I'm having to produce a lot of similar slideshows, for an extended course or something similar.
In that case, Markdown -> Powerpoint or similar tools are an absolute godsend.
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#8There have been a number of tools to generate HTML-based slides from simple ASCII text. 20 years ago, I was a fan of Magicpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicPoint
My recollection is that Magicpoint was really good for drafting the first version of a presentation, where you shouldn't be thinking about how it looks, but rather about what the content flow is. But fine tuning of good looking presentations was not its forte.
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#9Very neat! Just in case you don't know: something similar [0] exists for LaTeX, except it produces PDFs instead of Google Slides. [0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations
Actually used this throughout university and it works really well, specially when you already have a go-to template. Nowadays I use Keynote but if I didn't have it LaTeX would still be my first pick.
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#10Can someone explain why you would want to make slides from markdown? Surely its just as straightforward, if not easier, just to use the UI - genuinely curious
Automation could be one reason. For example you might have a weekly meeting and wish to show some relevant metrics and graphs updated for every week, then you could generate such a set of slides using a script triggered by cron.