presentations-as-code.md

title	author	topic	theme	colortheme	fonttheme	mainfont	fontsize	urlcolor	linkstyle	aspectratio	date	lang	section-titles	toc
Presentations as Code	Nimalan	Beamer + Pandoc	Frankfurt	default	professionalfonts	Monaco	10pt	red	bold	169		en-US	false	true

Latex

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1. Latex is a typesetting system for preparing documents.

2. Unlike other text processors, Latex uses plain text when writing

3. The formatting you can get with Latex is unmatchable $$\vec{w} = \nabla \times \vec{u}$$

4. Latex is over 40 years old!!

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Beamer

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1. Beamer is a Latex class to build presentations.

2. This presentation was created by beamer

3. A beamer slide will took like this in code

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\\begin{frame}
\\frametitle{Sample frame title}
This is a text in second frame. 
For the sake of showing an example.

\\begin{itemize}
 \\item<1-> Text visible on slide 1
 \\item<2-> Text visible on slide 2
\\end{itemize}
\\end{frame}

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What's the catch

1. Latex takes time to get used to

2. If only there was a way quickly prototype Latex docs

Pandoc

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1. Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another

2. You can convert Markdown to Tex/Org/HTML

3. This can be used to create pdfs, books, and slides from existing markdown documents

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Specify Pandoc to produce Beamer output

pandoc -t beamer presentations-as-code.md -o presentations-as-code.pdf

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Thank you

Any Questions?