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I found out recently that pandoc can take text markdown-ish files and turn them into

* Beamer presentations

* Powerpoint presentations

* Reveal.js presentations

Kind of crazy and interesting. I made a nuclear power deck with it and it worked ok.

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#slide-shows

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Thank you for sharing this! Out of curiosity, checked that Sphinx (my defaults docs engine) seems to be capable of doing this as well. https://sphinx-revealjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ , demo of generated presentation: https://attakei.github.io/sphinx-revealjs/ . Did not compare sphinx-revealjs with pandoc's coverage of reveal.js features though.

pandoc is magical software. One of those rare examples of a tool that does everything you would hope it does (and more) and nearly always does so correctly or as expected.

Alas that's not exactly the case for all language inputs. LaTeX conversion is patchy . Doubtless because of the sprawling ecosystem, but still, even support for pretty core packages is left still wanting.

I use pandoc + markdown to create a Beamer pdf that we use to guide the agenda for team meeting every week. It works well enough. The layouts are a little minimalist and have an academic feel but it works very well for putting together content for internal teams.

That's how I've been doing presentations for years!

Made me really excited and happy when I discovered it.

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