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Digital Presentations, Slide Shows

Pandoc, a universal document formatting and transformation program can be used to create presentations and other document formats from files such as Markdown, Microsoft Word, text and markup based file formats, Emacs Org-Mode and many other input types.

The advantage of using a common file format is many different types of presentation output formats can be used. The types are explained in the Slide Shows section of Pandoc User’s Guide. The presentation formats range from Microsoft PowerPoint, LaTeX beamer, PDF, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS based frameworks of S5, DZSlides, Slidy, Slideous, or reveal.js.

Example Usage of Pandoc to create Presentations

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# Using a markdown source, convert to HTML and JS presentation
pandoc -t revealjs -s source.md -o presentation.html -V revealjs-url=https://unpkg.com/reveal.js@^5
# There are other -t options, see pandoc manual
# --slide-level to Override slide level with like 1, 2, 3


# Convert markdown to RevealJS presentation without transition, use white theme and local css
pandoc -t revealjs -s source.md -o presentation.html -V theme=white -V transition=none -V revealjs-url=https://unpkg.com/reveal.js@^5 --css slides.css
# Set custom stylesheet with --css


# Using a Emacs org-mode source, create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
pandoc -s mydoc.org -o presentation.pptx

Tips for Navigating Slides

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Source: my-py-talks/llms-python-nov13/index.html at main · pamelafox/my-py-talks · GitHub - Examples by RevealJS HTML presentations by Pamela Fox

  • Press O or Escape for overview mode
  • In html, visit ?print-pdf for a printable version of presentation
  • F to toggle full screen

See Also

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References

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