Every time I look at markdown flavors I come up with this question: Why not latex? Granted, I rarely need markdown or latex so this might be just my ignorance.

I've tried doing my CV and some presentations in markdown cause I just didn't want to put the time to learn latex. I went markdown -> html -> pdf. I just couldn't get something satisfactory. The pains: pagination, centering, columns, image positioning, colors.

And then I took a day to learn enough latex - https://latex-beamer.com/quick-start/ - to create a presentation for work. It was a lot easier than I thought and it came out looking great. Here is the skeleton of it so you can judge how complex it is:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\usetheme {teheme-name}

\title{My Title}

\subtitle{My subtitle}

\author{me@example.com}

\date{\today}

\setlength{\parindent}{4ex}

\setlength{\parskip}{1ex}

\begin{document}

\begin{section}{Title}

  \begin{frame}

    \titlepage

  \end{frame}

  \begin{frame}{Contents}

    \tableofcontents

  \end{frame}

\end{section}

\begin{section}{Some section}

  \begin{frame}{Page title}

      My text here

    \begin{itemize}

      \item one item

      \item another item

    \end{itemize}

  \end{frame}

\end{section}

\end{document}