Use pandoc to generate ppt from markdown that uses remark syntax?

[jefferyyuan]

remark.js is great: simpler and much easier to use and has some petty useful features like presenter mode, cloned slideshow and etc.

It would be great if we can use pandoc to generate ppt from markdown that uses remark syntax?

• Currently pandoc supports reveal.js http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc

Thanks.

[claman]

So what is it exactly that you want from reveal.js? It looks like pandoc already supports this functionality...

[mschilli87]

@claman: pandoc supports reveal.js, this is a feature request to get support for remark.js.

[claman]

whoops! my bad.

[mjbright]

pandoc support for remark.js would be nice.

Personally there are 2 independent things that I'd like

• A remark.js to Powerpoint conversion
• A remark.js slidesorter: I find it to be a major pain trying to reorder slides in a text editor

my 2cts

[mschilli87]

@mjbright:

I find it to be a major pain trying to reorder slides in a text editor

Just an idea: One slide per *.md file, fzf to select an order, cat them together, then add boilerplate. Should be fairly easy to script and give that warm UNIX-y feel. :wink:

[mjbright]

Thanks for the suggestion but this really doesn't do what I'm looking for as I need some sort of visual selection to be able to reorder slides efficiently, something like the Powerpoint slide sorter view.

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I find it to be a major pain trying to reorder slides in a text editor

Just an idea: One slide per *.md file, fzf to select an order, cat them together, then add boilerplate. Should be fairly easy to script and give that warm UNIX-y feel. 😉

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[mschilli87]

You could autogenerate (temporary) 1-slide presentation HTMLs, render those to images and populate your selection menu this way. Not sure if fzf can do that directly, but if not dmenu probably can. All you need the wrapper to output is the underlying filenames in the order you selected them so the last script can assemble the full presentation file.

Nice idea to get the best of remarks.js' WYSIWYW approach with some extra WYSIWYG-candy.

My feeling is just doing this on the JS side would overcomplicate things.

[pinggit]

this is a nice idea! I believe folks use remark.js does not care about ppt. and vice versa. but still it's really nice to convert to ppt so ppt folks can work on the shining slides.

just a side node about "reorder the slides in text editor", considering Vim Voom side panel which makes the remark.js slides reordering super easy.