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Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by euske »

I tend to think that page-based presentation is becoming a thing of the past. I usually write a big sprawling one-page HTML, magnify it, and do a presentation by gradually scrolling them. The advantages are obvious:

- No need to tweak the content to fit the page boundary.

- Highly accessible (adjustable to any screen).

- No JS.

- All figures are in SVGs.

- Can also support printing (just insert CSS page break).

- (edit) The scroll bar always shows where you are in the slides.

I keep recommending this to my colleagues, but they're still sticking with PDFs and PowerPoints.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by dpeck »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #13

I found out recently that pandoc can take text markdown-ish files and turn them into * Beamer presentations * Powerpoint presentations * Reveal.js presentations Kind of crazy and interesting. I made a nuclear power deck with it and it worked ok. https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows

I use pandoc + markdown to create a Beamer pdf that we use to guide the agenda for team meeting every week. It works well enough. The layouts are a little minimalist and have an academic feel but it works very well for putting together content for internal teams.

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#33

Post by j-james »

cycomanic wrote: post #11

I really like reveal. However I still havent found a good way of creating slides. I find writing directly in HTML too tedious, but haven't really found a good other way. Most of the Markdown converters that are floating around are to restricted. At the moment I'm using org-reveal which works quite well, but I often find that the layout options lacking so I end up putting a lot of HTML into the org files which again d…

Have you given the official online editor a whirl? The last time I used it, I recall it being relatively feature-complete, although there's definitely a tradeoff compared to writing HTML.

https://slides.com/

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#34

Post by o-__-o »

dazbradbury wrote: post #19
curiousgal wrote: post #17

Can anyone recommend a realtime remote presentation solution? That is, something that updates the slides for the viewers as well, to use instead of sharing a screen with slides.

Good question. Would also be interested in this, as something to accompany [insert video conferencing tool of choice] to make use of dual monitors sensibly. What's your use case out of interest?

I used this to present my weekly updates to clients and offered a url for them to follow along. I still screenshared for those who couldn’t be bothered.

Would be nice to stream audio directly with the presentation to facilitate things like investor calls without requiring a full conferencing solution

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#35

Post by colesantiago »

euske wrote: post #31

I tend to think that page-based presentation is becoming a thing of the past. I usually write a big sprawling one-page HTML, magnify it, and do a presentation by gradually scrolling them. The advantages are obvious: - No need to tweak the content to fit the page boundary. - Highly accessible (adjustable to any screen). - No JS. - All figures are in SVGs. - Can also support printing (just insert CSS page break). - (ed…

are you trying to send me to sleep?

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

#37

Post by selfishgene »

duluca wrote: post #14
selfishgene wrote: post #5

Is the WYSIWYG editor on slides.com open source for those of us who would like to run it locally and not have to trust a binary?

High quality UX controls rarely are. I love slides.com and pay for the premium option to support the efforts. It’s awesome that they let you take a zip extract of the html/js version and run your whole presentation offline, which is handy at conferences. You can also export to PowerPoint and pdf too, which is was useful a few times.

TeXmacs will probably meet my needs then ... not as much sizzle and flash as reveal.js, but better WYSIWYG support for technical content.

For anyone still looking for an open source editor:

https://docs.deckdeckgo.com/

https://pencil.evolus.vn/

http://thomas.nadev.net/notes/2017-inkscape.html

https://github.com/rainwoodman/inkslides

https://sozi.baierouge.fr/

Re: Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework

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Post by 1propionyl »

acidburnNSA wrote: post #13

I found out recently that pandoc can take text markdown-ish files and turn them into * Beamer presentations * Powerpoint presentations * Reveal.js presentations Kind of crazy and interesting. I made a nuclear power deck with it and it worked ok. https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows

pandoc is magical software. One of those rare examples of a tool that does everything you would hope it does (and more) and nearly always does so correctly or as expected.
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