This is a nice project. I wrote my own version earlier, but it was not nearly as slick! I wanted fancy SVG-based animations, but never got it to a working state

This is a nice project. I wrote my own version earlier, but it was not nearly as slick! I wanted fancy SVG-based animations, but never got it to a working state. Coincidentally, I think some subtle animation would be great--maybe just have the slides slide in or out. They are, after all, slides :P. I currently use a very similar tool written for Emacs's org-mode. Org-mode is incredible. I mostly use it for notes; the slideshows are just another nice feature. I think the results[1] are quite good, given that it's just as easy as this except better-integrated into Emacs. [1]: http://jelv.is/synthesis-slides.html http://jelv.is/synthesis-slides.html I put this presentation together at literally the last moment before speaking--I wrote the last slide just as the previous speaker was taking questions. Despite the bad timing, I think it worked reasonably well. It's great, but I do sometimes have to modify the CSS for certain slides by hand. Happily, this is very easy, and I have never needed anything complicated. I use a modified version of an elisp script written by some Googlers[2], but org-mode can output slides with a bunch of other backends[3] like Beamer or S5. You can even use Emacs itself to give the presentation! I've seen a presentation this way and while the aesthetics are questionable, it confers an undeniable hacker panache. [2]: https://gist.github.com/kinjo/509761 https://gist.github.com/kinjo/509761 [3]: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentations.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentatio...