Markdeck
Dev tools
presentation slides
SHOW HN2019
235points
89comments
#149of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.00.
Idea: 3 for, 3 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Careful integrations for diagrams, math and pixel-perfect PDF export
From 2 comments
The reason I use Markdeck for all presentations is the care that the author has lavished on the many, many integrations. Anyone can render to PDF, but few tools produce pixel…
gerald1248 on HNmarkdeck can create diagrams and charts on-the-fly (graphviz, ditaa, plantuml, a2s, Vega-lite). And it can export the slides as PDF or as standalone HTML file. Plus…
tcc_42 on HN
Version control friendly text source
From 2 comments
This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides…
jobvandervoort on HNIt does not _require_ a VCS, but you can bring/use your own quite easily. Why? because most of the slide sources are in text format, so working with them under version control is…
tcc_42 on HN
Objections
Installing via docker and curl|bash is a security concern on corporate machines
From 2 comments
For a recent presentation I also tried reveal.js again and I really liked it overall (compared to LO Impress). I do science, so I'm not that into annotating source code, but this…
fock on HNYep! I just wasn't willing to run "curl ... | bash" on a corporate computer to install markdeck. I made a note to circle back to it, I still want to try it, the slides look…
atsaloli on HN
Text-only slides may produce less visually effective presentations
From 2 comments
"text-only" is a good description of bad slides to me. Why do people do that? The are plenty of Markdown slides tools so there seems to be a need.
qznc on HNText heavy slide creation tools (such as LaTeX and Markdown based ones) are aimed to make slide creation easier, not actually watching the resulting presentation. It's not to say…
DCKing on HN
Requests
Linux and Windows support
From 1 comment
Are there plans for Linux / Windows support? I don't own any Apple hardware, so I can't even try this, but if it works well I'd be happy to pay for it.
keldaris on HN
Upload to S3 bucket
From 1 comment
This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the…
hoov on HN
LaTeX embedding in slides
From 2 comments
Does this support LaTeX? Or can support be added via a plugin?
ForHackernews on HNFor my personal use case, embedding latex in a slide would be the best: I'd like to include equations alongside text and images, but I prefer writing markdown to latex where…
ForHackernews on HN
Questions
How does it differ from reveal.js with external markdown?
From 2 comments
What advantage does this have over just using reveal.js's support for external markdown document for slides?
pondidum on HNHow is this better than https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc ? Oh! You've got other yummy things rolled in there like graphviz and more. Thanks! I've…
atsaloli on HN
Why use this over marp?
From 1 comment
why use this over marp? https://yhatt.github.io/marp/
s09dfhks on HN
Alternatives named
Deckset
From 1 comment
This looks cool. Looking forward to give it a try. For years I've been using Deckset[0] for all my presentations. Being able to just edit a text file to write and update slides…
jobvandervoort on HN
reveal.js
From 1 comment
When I looked at it, I was like, "huh .. it's a lot like reveal.js" and then I looked carefully at the README and it is reveal.js, with extensions/mods. I've used reveal.js for a…
djsumdog on HN
pandoc slides
From 1 comment
How is this better than https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#producing-slide-shows-with-pandoc ? Oh! You've got other yummy things rolled in there like graphviz and more. Thanks! I've…
atsaloli on HN
marp
From 1 comment
why use this over marp? https://yhatt.github.io/marp/
s09dfhks on HN
GitPitch
From 1 comment
I love Deckset-- using it is like having presentation creation superpowers. But since it's OSX-only, I've moved to GitPitch, which is cross-platform and has the added benefit of…
alaithea on HN