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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
by thenomad 10y ago
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. Creating a new slide, 3 textboxes, and adding in the text in a GUI would take me significantly longer. And that multiplies up for each slide.
That's particularly true if I'm having to produce a lot of similar slideshows, for an extended course or something similar.
In that case, Markdown -> Powerpoint or similar tools are an absolute godsend.
- qznc 10y agoSlides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
- wastedhours 10y ago100% 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.
- AlexCoventry 10y agoWhat's the drawback to bullets?
- qznc 10y agoPeter Norvig illustrated that quite well: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/ http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
- AlexCoventry 10y agoThe 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.