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Show HN: Deckset for Mac – Turn markdown into beautiful presentations

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You can also do this with pandoc, albeit without the pretty themes (you'll have to add your own CSS). The advantage in using pandoc is that it exports to S5, DZSlides, Slidy, Slideous, or reveal.js. Of course, if you're not interested in rolling your own or need better looking slides with less effort, Deckset looks like a great alternative.

Bought! Thanks for sharing! It is always a source of stress and annoyance to me how long it takes to make and maintain slides for coding presentations in Keynote, so I'm looking forward to the next opportunity I have to use this!

After using it for a few minutes, what I can already tell I would love is more control over whatever CSS is being used to style these presentations. Any guidance available for that? For example, I like the headings on theme used to demonstrate the big headings, but don't like the monospace font for the content on that theme.

From the support page:

Can I build my own themes?

No. Deckset is a presenter tool, first and foremost. If you’re interested in a bespoke theme for your organisation, please get in touch.

Can I change the colours of a theme?

Every theme comes with a couple of colour combinations. You cannot apply any other colour to the designs. This is how we make sure your slides always look good without you having to worry about it.

Can I change the typeface of a theme?

All themes are built around a specific typographic choice, you cannot change the typeface. There are some really cool things you can do to your type though. Try combining ‘emphasis’ and ‘strong’, or apply the [fit] modifier to any heading within a heading only slide. If you’re interested in a bespoke theme based on your brand typeface, please get in touch.

Maybe something like this [0] is more what you are looking for? Or an open source tool [1] to make presentations from markdown, you will have to write your own css though.

[0] http://marked2app.com/

[1] https://github.com/gnab/remark

Originally discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7545456

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