Using markdown, write simple but beautiful presentations with math, animations and media, which can be visualized in a web browser even without an internet connection, or exported to PDF.
See the official git repository hosted on Gitlab or the Github mirror.
This program appropriately inserts markdown files into Reveal.js files, completely avoiding the need to edit HTML files directly.
See for yourself: check out the live demo (and the source file presentation.md).
python -m pip install git+https://gitlab.com/da_doomer/markdown-slides.git
mdslides [-h] [--include RESOURCE] [--pdf] FILE
where
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RESOURCE: any file or directory that should be included (e.g. a directory with pictures and videos) -
FILE: input markdown file.
Notes:
- PDF exporting requires chromium (see PDF exporting on reveal-js).
You will probably only need to break slides:
# My title
A subtitle maybe
[comment]: # (!!! Comments starting with this are slide breaks)
Second slide. Easy :DOther options are documented in the example presentation presentation.md.
If you need a quick refresher on markdown see e.g. this cheatsheet, the CommonMark reference page, or this Gfm tutorial.
You will not have to break your markdown files to use this program. Control Reveal.js' theme and options using CommonMark-compliant comments.
Everything but slide-break comments and option comments is passed to Reveal.js verbatim. Check out their documentation, especially the markdown section.
Some of Reveal.js's features are:
- LaTeX syntax.
- Automatic animations.
- Background videos and images.
Everything is bundled in this repository so web browsers do not need internet connection to display the presentations.
- Markdown is simple and portable. You can write markdown in a cellphone or in a remote server.
- You want to write equations in LaTeX.
- PDFs have no support for videos, but HTML does.
- PowerPoint and LibreOffice are not available in all computers, but virtually every computer has a web browser.