The Easiest Way to Make Presentations! (Pandoc + Markdown)

[@hhthoj]

Now I understand why all the slides of math professors look the same.

[@braulioacosta6816]

They probably just used latex

[@azathoth1462]

Used TeX beamer lmfao

[@netbotcl586]

except mine... my math professor use whatever app on Mac with themes

[@keylaacua]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Tech___Tube]

Exactly

[@oceanmew]

You are right, this is WAY easier than using a GUI for presentations. holy hell. You can just sit down and type up the whole thing simply in one go instead of faffing around in GUI menus. This is the way to do it, sadly I'm out of school now, so I don't need to do them anymore. I wish you could have shown me this in 2012.

[@AntonioRonde]

Don't worry. 80% of jobs include presentations. Dem managers got no time.

[@johannbauer2863]

I can't tell, if this is serious or a joke, I'm confused...

[@menerke]

Antonio Ronde yes, and if you are working for a big company sadly the only option for a presentation is powerpoint.

[@rotoast8113]

@@menerke Why that? It's about the product and not about the software you use.

[@elwynhmxj]

@@rotoast8113 Because you're often limited to whatever the company tells you to use.

[@itachi2011100]

This is so awesome! Now I can version control my presentation files as well.

[@redepox]

Harsh Parekh 😂😂😂

[@amirshabani494]

Indeed! I was already using git for my LibreOffice Impress files, but that's a mess!

[@zeitlose.klassiker]

lol this is exactly how the presentations of my prof look like

[@uliahshafar8599]

Soo what is that means?

[@olafghanizadeh]

@@uliahshafar8599 That his prof uses Beamer default template

[@hemanthkotagiri8865]

@@olafghanizadeh and watches luke Smith.

[@JohnDoe-jp5yg]

2 Luke Smith videos in 1 day? This is the best!

[@LukeSmithxyz]

I'm really a spree KZbinr. I'm just now starting one of my sprees.

[@JohnDoe-jp5yg]

Oh yes, I can't wait for more.

[@Unei1995]

thats prohably the last we'll hear from him for awhile, he's off to rubbing his hands and twirling his mustache again

[@fermiLiquidDrinker]

Just a recommendation, you can use the vim-pandoc plugin to run it inside of vim without the need for a terminal.

[@mikelezhnin8601]

Well, one could one just make a macro with :!pandoc % -t beamer -o pres.pdf in it and use it for recompiling.

[@celivalg]

Finally, I've been looking for this for over a year now (not actively looking, just keeping my eyes out)... This is awesome! Goodbye Powerpoint, goodbye google slide, welcome pandoc!

[@_zetrax]

Dude, your videos are making me go insane about minimalism... Why Do YOU Do This To Me! Thanks by the way

[@timothy9634]

Cool. I'll definitely try this next time I'm making a presentation. Also in case you don't already know: try zz in normal mode of vim (good in situations like 6:26). I just found out about it recently and it's saving me many ctrl-e and ctrl-y presses.

[@Patrk38]

thanks

[@MrKrtek00]

I don’t know how I got here, but it is awesome.

[@tutituti4344]

*Luke's Photo* Hey kiddo. Come here. I have candy

[@tanogg794]

Deus vult ! pretty much yeah haha !

[@benjamingmsousa]

Wanna visit my cabin in the woods? Im cooking candies

[@pemulis123]

Today I made my first beamer with markdown + pandoc! So much more to explore! Thanks Luke!

[@jony7779]

omg this is how my professors (the good ones) make their presentations.

[@theguyinthefunnyhat]

I use to use markdown all the time for taking notes in lectures using a program called "Notes-Up" in Elementary OS. That was the first time I learned how to use it and I basically got addicted to using it. I didn't even know that you could make presentations with it.

[@dn9255]

Thank u! Even though I would never use this for presentations I'd gladly use this for quick slides for studying! and now I also know what the .md files on github really are!

[@marceeaax]

You got me with your creepy picture LMAO

[@istainblack]

This video is awesome. I already organized my notes from classes with section headers in markdown for every powerpoint slide. Now I can run a simple pandoc command and get my teachers slides??? UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!

[@porky1118]

I found out about that some time ago, even made a presentation with it, but I didn't know about these extra options at the beginning.

[@netbotcl586]

thank you... no more dragging around stuffs in powerpoint

[@justinhale5693]

I was disappointed to see the picture of you wasn't a frog, but the rest of the presentation was captivating.

[@hexa3389]

no man should have this much power

[@tortorhl]

I love your wallpaper

[@jiantangli4859]

short and impressive, I like it

[@humding3r]

WOO NEW LUKE SMITH VIDEO!

[@JackPillawa]

as always an amazing video, you saved me ages from googling around, thanks man

[@carstenschmitt1563]

I so want to make some presentations right now.

[@dynamix9916]

Thank you Luke.

[@walopes]

This is awesome Luke! Thanks

[@kebman]

I wrote a client script that makes swooping slideshows in 3D, that plays all wasm media types. There are others out there, but I made mine to comply with JSON. Should probably covert it to markdown but I jsut didn't think that far when I started.

[@nsrmaster]

Thanks Luke, This is awesome!

[@notjulesatall]

You can also use Marp which has a better way of managing sections (using the "---" separator instead of section headings). You can't use it with your own editor however, it really lacks a standalone mode for rendering IMO.

[@DangRenBo]

I came to say that Marp with VS Studio is insanely easy. Create new Marp file, then type, then export as PDF, OOXML, or HTML.

[@deadeye1982a]

Awesome, I like this tool.

[@yaroshchenko_coder]

Спасибо вам за информацию, буду думать и заниматься творчеством! 👏👍 Жду новую информацию по интересным технологиям и среде юникс. ___RUS language___

[@edgarbonet1]

Thanks for the video! Just curious: is it a requirement that each item in the YAML front matter is a list? Couldn't you write it as below? --- title: Luke's presentation author: Luke Smith theme: Copenhagen ---

[@PolishCatParty]

Have you ever taken a look at Emacs' org-mode? It's a similar idea and can also export to latex, but considerably more capable than Markdown. You can do things like embed tables and tick off items in a list.

[@axpanos]

My favorite Linux channel by far

[@netrunner1145]

Thanks Luke!

[@WizardOfArc]

I have to use this! Thanks!

[@yuryLetona]

Thank you Dr. Smith for this tutorial. May you teach us to make the Vim and Pandoc integration on Linux?, thanks a lot.

[@franciscocribari]

Thank you for sharing that. It's quite useful indeed. A question: Is it possible to save the resulting LaTeX (Beamer) file for further tweaking (editing the Beamer file)?

[@syudagye2837]

Now i now how to take notes. So now i need a laptop :D

[@planetdeepak]

Thank you

[@outroutono4937]

i really need to know how to change the font-family with this syntax😅

[@jlxip]

Great video! Thanks!!!

[@adrianhartwig2646]

+10 karma and likeability for Luke because of this vid^^

[@svenwindpassinger2170]

Cool bg picture

[@blueclaws8817]

aw shiieeeettt Luke with the double *BOMB*

[@alexthelion335]

This is pretty cool and surprisingly easier/faster than using a WYSIWYJ editor

[@wiacco]

holy shit this is so cool

[@mrigankabasuroychowdhury6329]

This is great!

[@themaninthehighcastle7242]

Reinventing the wheel right there Luke ?

[@franciscotomasmendezmatura4796]

wuau great , this is so rad dude jeheheheh

[@porky1118]

What I don't like about markdown is, a single newline gets not converted to a newline. Only empty lines do. But there's an option to fix that in pandoc :)

[@gz6616]

Hi Luke, I wonder what's your thoughts on all the different types of markup syntaxes, including markdown, dokuwiki markup, moinmoin markup, zim-wiki markup, and many others. I don't quite understand why people don't just use the same syntax but creating new ones that makes converting one from another such a pain. I noticed that pandoc can't do moinmoin-to-markdown conversion, which kind of makes me don't want to learn moinmoin.

[@NikoxD93]

I LOVE your wallpaper! What is it? Do you have a link please?

[@helenahe3495]

*Pulls of terabytes (jk) of Haskell libraries since I use dwm not xmonad*

[@Angel-lu8ls]

What about "mupdf"? Isn't recently videos about it

[@Linuxdirk]

This is 5 parallel universes ahead of us!

[@m3nguele]

Good thing they are available for windows, might be a lot different, but still...

[@porky1118]

1:04 Yay, you call it number sign, not hashtag :)

[@duyhuyhoangdo4183]

Can We make a custom footer for the slide? inside the yaml

[@josevillar5508]

Is there a way to add a logo to every slide?

[@olafghanizadeh]

Then you have to edit the Beamer theme

[@KajuneK8]

Great video, I'll definitely use Pandoc+Markdown in my next presentation. I just have one problem, anyone know how to make the automatically added text (like "Figure 1" under the picture) to appear in other language?

[@daviddavbuz98]

Probably not best solution, but I found this: github.com/tomduck/pandoc-fignos#customization

[@adamfoster3467]

I doubt anybody will respond to this but I found a bug/ issue with the above. If you recreate the exact template in the video, but with NO text in the first section, then all subsequent sections AND subsections will appear on separate pages. Only workaround I can find is to just put something (like a period) on the first page in the first section.

[@vasyavas6744]

How about Latex + Beamer? Or org/markdown + reveal is?

[@kilak9193]

SMART BOY

[@asosa9502]

Is there any way to insert Latex equations into slides with Markdown?

[@fschuetz04]

Just enclose them in $, e.g. $\frac{1}{2}$

[@uzKantHarrison]

Question question! Can I use my own .sty ?

[@SnakeOilDev]

what DE are you using ?

[@serpico3w767]

nice thumbnail

[@MA790XT]

You can use Emacs org with revealjs to create Presentation. Here are some examples: opensource.com/article/18/2/how-create-slides-emacs-org-mode-and-revealjs jr0cket.co.uk/slides/revealjs.html

[@zhaohe4673]

How do you show pdf after each compile update ??

Is Markdown suitable for book writing?

[@josea.9429]

Hi. Nice video. It was new for me to know you can make presentations this way. And it seems really cool because either powerpoint or impress feel clunky and uncomfortable for me. Just a question tho, which packages do you need for this to work, apart from pandoc? From the little I know, beamer is latex related, and the texlive-full package is huge, so i'd like to avoid downloading it.

[@LukeSmithxyz]

You only really need the texlive-bin package, which pandoc will pull automatically. You only need other latex packages if you specifically call them.

[@josea.9429]

I just tried it and needed to install texlive recommended fonts, because pandoc produced an error of missing fonts when compiling. Other than that my first presentation worked nicely. Thanks.

[@FKLinguista]

I can't seem to get level 2 headings to work with ##. The paragraph just displays as "## Insert title here". Any ideas?

[@FKLinguista]

It's working now. It must have gotten scared.

[@AschKris]

Nice!

[@LuizAntonio-wz2iw]

Can I write an .doc text document using Pandoc?

[@robertbower9862]

Great video, but I did find the one gotcha or is it a ploy just to get me to watch more of your videos?. If your document does not fit on one slide the bottom gets cut off, with no warning. I do believe there is a way in beamer to do a framebreak but now I have to watch the Latex and beamer videos to figure out how to do it. :)

[@maraschulke7658]

Use marp instead - it’s looking so much better

[@Thanatos2996]

I wish I had known this in college.

[@woplinspray]

Can you do more stuff with it than with PowerPoint?

[@xthebumpx]

How's this compare to something like reveal.js?

[@patlaborcampmahasiswa8942]

Is it possible for collaborative editing?

[@EnnTomi1]

The hardcore way

[@Tamoor622498]

Which os is that?

[@elliotalderson6609]

Just tell me, how to use this $H17 with unicode characters. I just refuse to understand why this is such pain in the ass

[@sweetberries4611]

why not latex

[@zebcode]

You say presentations I was expecting a ppt demo.

[@TrueDetectivePikachu]

Another tool: Obsidian. Basically a Markdown IDE where you can do presentations with whatever you write in markdown, or papers, or notes, or whatever you need. Yeah its not gonna be as minimalist as barebones pandoc, but lets be real, what are the chances someone in 2022 uses a 520MB RAM intel atom computer as their daily driver?

[@sk8sbest]

Looks familiar to my prof's notes lol

[@pcfreak1992]

Sounds interesting but holy sh*t, that many packages! "Total: 118 packages, Size of downloads: 150.692 KiB" even though I have texlive and Texmaker already installed..

[@LukeSmithxyz]

It's just a bunch of little haskell packages. Definitely worth it, especially since pandoc can convert everything to everything.

[@pcfreak1992]

I might try it in an Ubuntu VM. This would take a while on my Gentoo system. :'D

[@dinimueterihrhurene2772]

cool

[@The_Yuriy]

What os, and what key switches?

[@moustiqueneige4]

Yura R arch Linux +i3

[@top_10_overpowered_youtube98]

Hello sir, I'm totally new to this, may I ask you what softwares (tools) are you using in order to write codes, compile it as slides ? Best regards !

[@MrSkatosakoulas]

manpandoc reminded me of manbearpig

[@porky1118]

1:30 So you don't just have subsections, you only have sections and subsubsections :P

[@SchokoAprikose]

1 Day to late XD. edit: but thx I will use it in the future.

[@georgeunknown2833]

I want this wallpaper ;(

[@lukasmiljic1709]

5 month late but if you still care look up 'A Storm in the Rocky Mountains'

[@roboko6618]

It's easy when you do it day in day out but let a few months pass and the ol' fishbowl hasn't got any goldfish that remember the commands.

[@torinfaes6278]

Roboko hmm maybe you should take some markdown notes on it

[@AhmedKhaled-sj1zx]

Luke Come back Heaven