[OKFN - Austria] Slide Show (S9) v3.0 - Write Talks / Presentations in Text w / Markdown - Many Themes (S5, S6, deck.js, impress.js, etc.)

Mo Apr 4 14:21:12 UTC 2016

hello,

sounds interesting. am looking for an easy to use alternative to impress
and latex for some time and will give it a try.
thanks for sharing.

cheers, stefan

On 2016-04-04 09:44, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> Hello,
>    Thanks for highlighting reveal.js.
>
>     Adolfo Villafiorita from the University of Trento (in Italy) and
> the Fondazione Bruno Kessler has put together a reveal.js template
> pack [1] for Slide Show (S9).
>
>>  (also supports markdown)
>    Why Slide Show (S9) markdown support is "better" ;-) ?  If you use
> the reveal.js markdown support than you have to write the markdown
> *inside* the reveal.js html template (basically you're "locked" in).
>
>    If you use S9 you write your "plain" markdown file - works with any
> HTML template pack - and than generate the presentation e.g.  $
> slidesshow build welcome -t reveal.js.  Also "free standing" markdown
> files can get rendered as is (see my talk repos as a humble example
> [2]) or published as Word (DOCX), PDF, ODF, etc.
>
>   Cheers.
>
> [1] https://github.com/avillafiorita/slideshow-reveal.js
> [2] https://github.com/geraldb/talks     (Open Access, Open Science!)
>
> 2016-04-04 9:31 GMT+02:00 Johann Höchtl <Johann.Hoechtl at donau-uni.ac.at>:
>> I tried reveal.js (also supports markdown) and was quite impressed by the relative ease of creating a presentation, the portability (doesn't require a web server) and visual aesthetic.
>>
>> https://slides.com/?ref=github
>> https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
>>
>> Best, Johann
>>
>>>>> Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> schrieb am 03.04.2016 um 19:55 in Nachricht
>> <CAFFV8FjDo6AnGOMY2-dJbXtxLeeG5LnYgsUohsLbLh52PAroSg at mail.gmail.com>:
>>> Thanks for the pointers. Believe me when I say that I've seen more bad
>>> presentations without pictures than I care to count. Too much of anything
>>> is an anti pattern. But thanks for your concern.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>> Anita
>>> On Apr 3, 2016 7:47 PM, "Gerald Bauer" <gerald.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>>    Thanks for your interest.
>>>>    Dr. Google is your friend ;-) That is, there are thousands of
>>>> presentations with pictures and vidoes made in text w/ markdown
>>>> online.
>>>>
>>>>    Also if I dare to say - using flashy videos and pics - is an
>>>> anti-pattern, that is, bad practice - it will distract from your talk
>>>> and yourself (the speaker) and so on.
>>>>
>>>>  Anyways,to get started, see the examples by Lea Verou in the CSS
>>>> Secrets series e.g.
>>>>
>>>>    - http://lea.verou.me/more-css-secrets  and others
>>>>
>>>>    Or the Google I/O series e.g.
>>>>
>>>>    - http://www.webcomponentsshift.com   and others
>>>>
>>>>    Or the Deckset App side-by-side cheat sheet e.g.
>>>>
>>>>   - http://www.decksetapp.com/cheatsheet
>>>>
>>>>   and many many more. Good luck. Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> 2016-04-03 12:30 GMT+02:00 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>:
>>>>> Hi Gerald,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Gerald Bauer <gerald.bauer at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Still using PowerPoint or Keynote for your talks and presentations?
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately yes, because my experiments with Impress didn't prove very
>>>>> successful ...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Any favorite slide show/presentation package? Questions? Comments?
>>>>>> Welcome. Cheers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been considering slideshow tools such as Slide Show (S9) but my
>>>>> presentations tend to be a mix of pictures and videos with only little
>>>> text.
>>>>> A demo of such a presentation would be much more convincing to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>> Anita
>>>>>
>>>>>
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