And i think i got a black beamer1/7/2024 ![]() ![]() The ability to stage more elaborate “builds” than just the incremental reveal: I wanted to hide and reveal various elements of a slide.Īnd no clicking-an automated process for going from the source notes to any and all outputs I needed for class with one command. Notes to myself, output in a format I could use when I was teaching, which meant: with some indication of the corresponding slide Ĭontrol over the slide formatting, including the typeface įlexibility when I wanted to lay out images and text on the same slide Ī “presenter interface” like the one in Keynote, with a preview of the next slide and a clock I make frequent use of the oddball syntax for incremental lists, which is to put the list in a block quote. For a sample of the kind of results I get, see the slides from my Early Twentieth-Century Fiction course this semester, for example a lecture on Djuna Barnes.īasic pandoc-markdown for slides gets you most of the way. ![]() All the bits and pieces for doing this can be found in my repository of TeX stuff on github, in the lecture-slides directory. (If you want easy slides made easy, consider Ben Schmidt’s suggestions.) Here’s what I do these days. Getting what I want out of that setup is what makes easy slides difficult. Whether the temptation to further procrastination/tinkering was really healthy is a separate issue.Īnyway, markdown for slides with pandoc is pretty simple and easy-to-use, but because I wanted some features that the HTML formats do not easily support, I was tempted into going with pandoc’s capacity to generate LaTeX slides using the beamer package. ![]() By contrast, once I started writing my slides and notes together, I got my materials for class together quite a bit faster. I always ended up having to create two parallel versions of each class: the slides, and my own notes. And, worst of all, adding notes for myself to slides is pretty hopeless. It was a relief to stop fighting with Keynote, 1 which is nice as presentation programs go but still exhausting: it constantly makes wrong guesses about formatting putting text where you want is a struggle, and inevitably imprecise. I switched over to this way of doing things last year. You write plain text, and a single pandoc command produces slides in one of a number of nice HTML formats (like reveal.js or slidy), ready to be uploaded, or in PDF. Don’t painfully lay out each slide, click by click: just write down an outline and let a program generate the slides for you. ![]()
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