"Automating the Build of your Technical Presentation" -- The Template

This is a template for technical presentations written in Markdown, generating PDF output using Pandoc and Beamer. Source code snippets are included using pandoc-include-code. Diagrams are generated using Graphviz and/or PlantUML.

Samples

• With Notes (Presenter PDF)
• Without Notes (Handout)

Requirements

• A LaTeX distribution, e.g. TeX Live or MacTeX.
• Graphviz
• Pandoc (version 2.0)
• pandoc-include-code
• Oracle JRE/JDK

All the above dependencies' executables need to be on your PATH.

Usage

1. Download this repository as a ZIP file, or clone it with git, and start hacking away at your own presentation!
2. Write your slides in src/slides.md. There's a number of examples on how you can include content and write notes in the existing file.
3. Add Graphviz diagrams to src/uml/*.uml.txt and PlantUML diagrams to src/uml/*.uml.txt. There are some examples provided that you can modify or remove.

Build

Make slide handouts and slides with notes:

make slides

Start pdfpc presenter:

make present

License

Mozilla Public License Version 2.0