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>Is Markdown really the best tool for this job? Of course not, we've had Beamer[1] for that purpose for many years :) >I love markdown as much as the next per
by romwell 8y ago
>Is Markdown really the best tool for this job?
Of course not, we've had Beamer[1] for that purpose for many years :)
>I love markdown as much as the next person, but it was designed for writing, not for slides.
People said that about LaTeX, and it stopped no one :D
On a more serious note, imagine living in a world where your presentations/slides are version-control friendly.
Now look around you. You are in that world now.
[1]https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer
- stellalo 8y agoBeamer is far from being the right tool for making presentations, and I’ve basically used only that for the last 12 years. LaTeX is for writing long-ish text. If what you are writing doesn’t contain sufficiently long text, then it’s hard to justify the overhead compared to say Markdown-based solutions.
- ziotom78 8y agoI found the pair pandoc+beamer perfect for some kinds of presentations. Recently I used them to prepare the keynote and the proceedings for a conference talk: https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/master/ https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/ma... (The keynote is in "presentation.md", and the paper in "article.md".) I had to customize a few pandoc's defaults (see the Makefile) and even had to use a Python filter to tweak the output, but the result was excellent: once everything was in place, creating the slides required no effort at all. I was even able to switch the format from 4:3 to 16:9 in a breeze, once I learned what the resolution of the projector was.