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Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by qznc »

thenomad wrote: post #7
agjmills wrote: post #4

Can 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. Creatin…

Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by qznc »

MrQuincle wrote: post #30
macco wrote: post #17

I 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.…

It is not that hard. You just have to refrain from some dangerous features like colors and different fonts.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/slide_design_programmers.html

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by jstrieb »

sah2ed wrote: post #28

While 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/

Pandoc?

http://pandoc.org/

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by Dowwie »

Check out remarkjs: https://github.com/gnab/remark

I like to toggle to presenter mode in this presentation by pressing the 'p' key. This reveals the presenter's notes and a time counter. Other keyboard shortcuts are available from the README.

Also, you can use it as a hugo theme: https://github.com/sporto/hugo-remark

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by wastedhours »

qznc wrote: post #31
thenomad wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Creatin…

Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.

100% agree - our data pres people swear by the two column table approach (one column has a few word headlines, second column has a bit more context) over bullets and helps people take in information a lot easier.

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by walterbell »

On iOS, makeslides [0] will convert markdown or OPML (mind map) text nodes to a Powerpoint file. There's zero style formatting, but you can open PPT in Keynote or Powerpoint for styling. Unfortunately, Keynote on iOS does not allow styles/themes to be applied to an existing presentation file - you will need a PC for final editing.

[0] http://toketaware.com/makeslides/

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by aban »

nkantar wrote: post #33

When this comes up, I always feel obligated to share my favorite Markdown presentation tool, the command-line mdp: https://github.com/visit1985/mdp

I'd also like to share patat [0], a Pandoc-based presentation tool written in Haskell.

One of the nice things about patat using Pandoc is that the input file format can be any of the ones supported by Pandoc (e.g. rST, Org, LaTeX, etc).

[0]: https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat

Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown

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Post by sah2ed »

jstrieb wrote: post #34
sah2ed wrote: post #28

While 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/

Pandoc? http://pandoc.org/

Tried pandoc before but I had trouble with missing dependencies (on Windows). When I tried it on Linux the output didn't look great.

Ideally, would love something that mimicked GitHub Flavored Markdown in output.

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