Reveal.js and Org Mode

Mike Zamansky is back from his trip and has a new video up. It’s on making presentations with reveal.js and Org mode. This is a nice introduction to reveal.js and shows how easy it is to make a nice looking1 presentations simply by writing a Org file.

Each top-level heading is a new slide and you can have subslides by using subheadings. You can add code, tables, or images in the usual way and they get added to your slides just as you’d expect. There are also a number of themes and special effects to choose from. Watch the video to see the details.

One of the things I didn’t like about reveal.js was that it could be a bit fiddly to get the environment set up but Zamansky shows you how to use the CDN version that gets dynamically loaded from the cloud.

The nice thing about reveal.js is that it’s easy to use and doesn’t require remembering a lot of details so it’s perfect if, like me, you don’t make a lot of presentations and don’t want to spend a lot of time learning a more complicated system.

Footnotes:

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At least if you don’t mind PowerPoint-like presentations.

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