What technologies do you use for presentations ? For Julia talks to smallish audiences I used Douglas Bates’ pipeline of pandoc on markdown to pdf via latex as a template. (I can’t seem to locate the source online at the moment). This is very easy (if you have the tools) and does code highlighting. …

Take a look at the first 3 slides These look great. The linked version is easy to read. The listed advantage Use all the commands with fancy math is not unique. This is baked into ipe and maybe an extension does it in inkscape. I’m usually not a fan of wysiwyg, but your Spend hours over-engineer…

Thanks for sharing your experience. This is all good to know! In the past I’ve gotten excellent results with inkscape, but I haven’t used it in about six months…

This made me actually get around to installing textext on my Windows machine (I normally just use it under Linux); to get it to work was slightly more involved than I’d hoped… Install Inkscape 0.92.3 (with Python extensions) Install PyGTK (from TexText github ) Install pdf2svg (again from TexText g…

Not sure this counts as help but just wanted to share what I do. I use rmarkdown ioslides with mermaidjs and later convert to PDF. This allows for plots, images, graphs, code, quotes etc rendered in code. I use it for my Julia talks as well.

Something I am really happy with out of my Beamer + Tikz combo right now. I am introducing my talk with a series of views of a diagram showing the relationship between various things that I will talk about (and the wider ecosystem) [image] [image] [image] Then at the start of each section of my ta…

I always use slides.com for my presentations. It’s essentially a hosted, managed GUI wrapper for reveal.js. The presentation tools are very useful. You can give people a link which will live-update to follow along with your presentation, which is perfect for videoconferencing where you want to show…

[image] jlapeyre: pipeline of pandoc on markdown to pdf via latex as a template. I think pandoc doesn’t highlight ```julia-repl correctly?

Since this thread has been revived, I like to use Marp which generates slides from markdown. [image] Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus…

Quarto https://quarto.org/ . Markdown, LaTeX, Julia, …

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