I love this! I didn't know I needed this until I saw it. It was a breeze to set up and be up and running.
One small question: does anyone know how to add a color background to a slide (as in the example provided) - is it done with CSS?
Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
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Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
What's the drawback to bullets?
Peter Norvig illustrated that quite well: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the drawback to bullets?
Peter Norvig illustrated that quite well: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
The objectives of the Gettysburg Address were entirely political and did not require the audience to keep track of detailed information with complex interactions.
I was at a talk by Norvig recently. I can't remember whether his slides had bullet points, but there were definitely series of single-sentence, loosely related paragraphs. So he might have changed his mind, or you might have missed the point.
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#54Use with impress.js ( http://impress.github.io/impress.js/ ) and you have possibilities * 1000
Amazing, cooler than Prezi (and free)!
Re: Show HN: Generate Google Slides from Markdown
#55When 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
patat looks a lot more comprehensive than mdp—thanks for sharing!