awesome!
Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
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Re: Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
#22On macOS, I strongly recommend DeckSet[0]. It's a Keynote/Powerpoint from Markdown, especially valuable when you embed code in your presentations.
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#23Maybe I missed it, but there doesn't seem to be an explanation for the name. I think software that use clever names should explain why. In this case, fusuma are traditional Japanese sliding doors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusuma
It doesn't need any explanation, but if you do get it, that is a nice little winking reference.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> should I wouldn't say we are entitled to an explanation of why an open source project is titled any more than we are entitled to the project being open source in the first place.
It's not about entitlement; if the purpose of a name isn't to give people an easy way to remember something, what good is it? If the developer wanted to increase interest in the project, explaining the name could only further this goal.
That might justify using "should" in a prudential sense, but not a moral sense.
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#25Maybe I missed it, but there doesn't seem to be an explanation for the name. I think software that use clever names should explain why. In this case, fusuma are traditional Japanese sliding doors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusuma
> should I wouldn't say we are entitled to an explanation of why an open source project is titled any more than we are entitled to the project being open source in the first place.
Or any more than we are entitled to an explanation of the name of any business, individual, or [noun] we encounter.
Re: Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
#26Saw this and remembered when I made some HTML slides during my first year on the OASIS XDI technical committee in 2005. I used Docbook, and the Slide document template created by Norm Walsh:
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/slides/current/doc/
He and I differed quite a bit on XDI (he was not on the XDI TC but provided feedback as part of a public review), and I still think something like XDI will exist in the future, but I have to give him credit - Docbook is an awesome tool.
There's also DITA (a more modular, but also more complicated, Docbook alternative from OASIS). There's a plugin for DITA that lets you do slides in DITA and create Reveal.js based HTML presentations.
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#27Disappointed there's no built executable. I'm not into web development, so I don't have npm or yarn handy. Seems like a missed opportunity; a binary would open this project to a larger community.
I've used `present` (a Go binary) for several years now. It has the bare minimum of features but it gets the job done.
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#28I’m surprised no one’s mentioned pandoc by now. It’s a Swiss army knife that among other things makes slides from Markdown documents and lets you pick from a number of JS templates or Latex/Beamer. Converting Markdown to PDF slides is just a simple-ish oneliner away. And terrific for a whole number of other use cases, too - including but not limited to Markdown Word, Epub conversion, HTML conversion and endless other…
I love pandoc, and I would love it even more if it had full support for LaTeX math. Unfortunately, the math support is very primitive (meaning, I cannot copy-paste maths from my LaTeX paper and expect it to work and look correct once converted to html, even with the mathjax option). I spend a weekend trying to hack the haskell code to correct a few problems, but it got to nothing.
Re: Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
#29I’m surprised no one’s mentioned pandoc by now. It’s a Swiss army knife that among other things makes slides from Markdown documents and lets you pick from a number of JS templates or Latex/Beamer. Converting Markdown to PDF slides is just a simple-ish oneliner away. And terrific for a whole number of other use cases, too - including but not limited to Markdown Word, Epub conversion, HTML conversion and endless other…
Used pandoc for a couple presentations recently and while it's clear the experience will be wonderful eventually, it's still a bit buggy. There is no widescreen template included with Pandoc and attempts to use other templates caused me to encounter https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/5402 . The resulting .pptx files won't open in Keynote, either, but luckily they did open in Google Slides, which then let me download a visually-identical .pptx that opens everywhere. Point is, slide support in Pandoc is still somewhat new and people should not go in expecting a trouble-free experience at this point.
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#30I have been using https://hackmd.io/ for quite some time now.
thanks for posting this comment; hackmd looks great!
awesome features, and great that it's open source.