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Type 'em up in Emacs org-mode, then use org-reveal to spit out the presentation HTML and screenshare with my browser.
It's real nice, the workflow allows me to slap something together in tools I find familiar rather than attempting to wrestle with PowerPoint.
Of course there's an Emacs mode for authoring your deck.
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
Made me really excited and happy when I discovered it.
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/
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.
I've been doing all my talk slides for the past few years with org-mode and Reveal.js. Really happy with both the workflow and the result[1]. I've settled on a pretty simple system with three main files: ideas.org → outline.org → slides.org I start with unstructured thoughts, turn them into a structure of a presentation and then into concrete slides, all in roughly the same format. With Emacs, it's easy to navigate b…
Also, is your workflow org -> MD or org-> html? If to md, as I assume it probably is, can you just call in the slide breaks (---) in org mode directly?
Could you maybe share some code?
Edit: just learned about org-reveal. How did I miss this!
Hey! I’m the creator of reveal.js. Thanks for sharing. Happy to answer questions if you have any. reveal.js was first released in 2011. A few years later I also launched a visual editing environment for reveal.js called Slides (slides.com). It has some pretty unique features targeted at developers, like a built-in CSS editor, access to the HTML source, and stepped line-by-line code highlighting. http://slides.com/new…
It's solid for creating basic slides quickly, and it supports exporting to PDF by having your printer print the PDF from a browser (it came out perfect). Here's a 100+ slide PDF of a talk I did the other month with Reveal using an out of the box theme: https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env/blob/master/ny... The PDF doesn't show it but I had a lot of animated gifs (almost every terminal screenshot is animated)…
How do you capture terminal to gifs?
I used to use reveal.js when I was teaching for many of my lessons. Of course there's an Emacs mode for authoring your deck. https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal