The first slide uses an H1 header as a section header. Remark provides some rudimentary CSS to style slides. right - # Slide title Normal text: * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet ? Speaker notes go here. The Markdown is a little different, but shouldn’t look unfamiliar by now: class: center, middle # Remark template. On the other hand, you don’t need Pandoc - so you don’t need a computer - so if you are stuck in an airport with nothing but your phone, Remark might just be your smartest choice. This makes it a little less convenient to edit. Because it uses Markdown nestled inside an HTML document, your favorite Markdown editor might get confused. If you don’t want to use Pandoc, consider Remark: a standalone slide presentation that you edit directly.
When Pandoc renders the image, it is scaled to a percentage of the container where it resides (a slide or column, for example). That fenced div notation lets you create columns using nested divs without writing tags in HTML. This feature doesn’t always work with heavily modified presentations or corporate templates, but I was able to get it to work with built-in templates and one template that I had customized. That means if you have a theme you like, you can create a whole presentation in that theme - no one will know you started with Markdown. When you run the command with the -reference-doc parameter, Pandoc takes the theme from the specified existing Powerpoint file and applies it to the new one you are creating. But there’s one more piece of magic: pandoc myslides.md -o myslides.pptx -reference-doc another.pptx pptx file is simple: pandoc myslides.md -o myslides.pptxĪs you would expect, you don’t need the -s flag (because what is the alternative to a standalone Powerpoint presentation?) and you can open the resulting.
Here, it is just used to delineate the speaker notes. Notice the ::: - Pandoc’s fenced div syntax, which lets you do a lot of tricks in various formats. The above Markdown contains two slides: one with an H1 as a section title and another that uses an H2 for the slide title. Here is some sample Markdown: # Section Title # Slide Title Text on a slide: * Bullet * Bullet * Bullet ::: notes Speaker notes go here :::įor Powerpoint slides, Pandoc doesn’t require the hyphen separator. Normal text is big enough for a title or announcement on a slide. Here’s some sample Markdown: - # H1 or H2 is a Section Title - Normal Text for Slide Title - Bullet - Bullet -ĭZslides uses an H1 or H2 as a section header, which you will probably mostly have on a slide by itself. If you want to do one of those slick presentations with big images and very few words, DZslides is an easy way to do it. I’ll focus on two in particular: DZslides and Powerpoint. I tried a few including S5, Slidy, and slideous. Pandoc can build slides from several formats. Some presentation tools work best if you separate slides with three hyphens ( -).īuilding a presentation with Pandoc is simple: Most other Markdown works as you would expect.
In general, an H1 or H2 header works for a section header or slide title. That seems a little complicated, so I played with the Markdown a bit to see what worked in different presentation formats. In the example above, level 1 headers are always followed by level 2 headers, which are followed by content, so 2 is the slide level. Pandoc uses the following rule to figure out what header level to use for slide titles:īy default, the slide level is the highest header level in the hierarchy that is followed immediately by content, and not another header, somewhere in the document. Then write some Markdown for your slides. When using Pandoc, you can start your Markdown file with YAML metadata or a simple block like this: % Title % Author Name % Date
#RMARKDOWN PPT INSTALL#
If you can do simple things on the command line, you will have no trouble: Pandoc is easy to install and use. Pandoc is an everything-to-everything converter, and one of its neatest tricks is turning Markdown into slides. It took some experimentation, but in the end I learned a lot about what each tool can do.
I tested a few ways to build slide presentations using Pandoc and one standalone HTML presentation format called Remark. There is a growing number of tools to do just that. It’s true! You can make a slide presentation from Markdown, and not just a dancing bear.
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