I write my slide content in Markdown, use pandoc to generate beamer slides as LaTeX files and then compile the beamer to PDF slides. There are a few steps invo

I write my slide content in Markdown, use pandoc to generate beamer slides as LaTeX files and then compile the beamer to PDF slides. There are a few steps involved, but they're all pretty easily scriptable, and it allows me to use my favorite text editor to compose content quickly.