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I found out recently that pandoc can take text markdown-ish files and turn them into * Beamer presentations * Powerpoint presentations * Reveal.js presentati
by acidburnNSA 6y ago
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 https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows
- dpeck 6y agoI 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.
- 1propionyl 6y agopandoc 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.
- nanna 6y agoAlas that's not exactly the case for all language inputs. LaTeX conversion is patchy . Doubtless because of the sprawling ecosystem, but still, even support for pretty core packages is left still wanting.
- toinbis 6y agoThank you for sharing this! Out of curiosity, checked that Sphinx (my defaults docs engine) seems to be capable of doing this as well. https://sphinx-revealjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://sphinx-revealjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , demo of generated presentation: https://attakei.github.io/sphinx-revealjs/ https://attakei.github.io/sphinx-revealjs/ . Did not compare sphinx-revealjs with pandoc's coverage of reveal.js features though.
- reegnz 6y agoThat's how I've been doing presentations for years! Made me really excited and happy when I discovered it.