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Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily

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I’m surprised no one’s mentioned pandoc by now. It’s a Swiss army knife that among other things makes slides from Markdown documents and lets you pick from a number of JS templates or Latex/Beamer. Converting Markdown to PDF slides is just a simple-ish oneliner away. And terrific for a whole number of other use cases, too - including but not limited to Markdown <-> Word, Epub conversion, HTML conversion and endless others. I find myself turning to it all the…

belzsch·122-point thread·

Very nice! I've been using Marp https://marp.app/ at work for the same purpose as well. One cool thing is that it comes with a VSCode extension, making it very convenient to use.

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