This looks great! Textual interfaces to presentations are an absolute pleasure to use.
The one i've been using for a while now is Marp [0]. Found it to be fast, straightforward and quite powerful :)
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#22This is awesome! For two reasons - I am very PowerPoint challenged : i dont fit in very naturally with a mouse-click-drag based workflow. I would much ratger have an automatic layout alignment by another tool... rather than spend time trying to align or even understand visual cues.
Second - Im excited about the possibility that you/someone can fit this into Hugo/Jekyll and have three output targets: powerpoint, google slides, static websites. Too much fantastic content is locked up in Google Slides/Powerpoint and would love to unlock it.
If this were a Hugo plugin (which we already use) . . . I would pay for this.
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#23Along those lines there's also Deckset [0], which is focused on turning "boring" markdown notes to visually appealing presentations. I've used it once or twice and really like the idea. It's only available for Mac (afaik) though..
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#24Emacs users may also want to check out org-reveal[1], which enables export from org-mode to reveal.js presentations with 0 hassle.
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#25Another great markdown->slides project is madoko https://www.madoko.net/ . Also really good for writing markdown based latex papers.
The text is overflowing the margins on pages 13 - 15 in the sample [1] linked to from the madoko site.
[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/madoko/sa...
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#26Personally, I recently forced myself to use org mode for various project management tasks. There is a html5 presenter integrated afair, but I quite like the google io type slide generator [1]
It looks nice, it works well, and you can use all sorts of exporters with org anyway.
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#27Can 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
Going to have to chime in that I recently tried making slides in Google Docs and found the experience absolutely horrible. Trying to add numbered bullet points, and expecting it to be a formatting option as in normal Google Docs, was particularly annoying.
Im pretty sure numbered bullets are a normal formatting option on Slides. Should be next to the regular bulleted lists button on the toolbar.
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#28While we are on the topic of generating output from markdown, anyone know of a great tool for generating good looking (GitHub-Flavored) PDF/Word documents from markdown? Hyperlinks should be clickable too.
I know of markdown2pdf [1] but the output can sometimes come out looking bland.
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#29While we are on the topic of generating output from markdown, anyone know of a great tool for generating good looking (GitHub-Flavored) PDF/Word documents from markdown? Hyperlinks should be clickable too. I know of markdown2pdf [1] but the output can sometimes come out looking bland. [1] http://markdown2pdf.com/
I use MacDown[1], a macOS open source visual Markdown editor. You can select from several styles, toggle features such as GitHub-flavored on and off, and then save as PDF. I'm not sure about its scriptability from the command line.
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#30I don't get it. Markdown is text markup language. Slides shouldn't have much text (best: none), but should be visually appealing. I don't think a text editor is the right interface for that.
I'm terrible in visuals. I rather provide the raw content and someone else makes it beautiful.
For a team page that's pictures of the team and their roles.
For a product it is pictures from my product designer. Or specs that might be put in a nice looking table.
For user scenarios it is photos again, but with a caption. And yes, if I do it myself that caption will look ugly.
So text templates are super useful to me. I'm also much better in using icons than designing them. :-)