Slides is terminal based software that lets you write Markdown and create presentations.
You simply create a simple Markdown file that contains your slides.
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. It’s designed to be easy-to-read and easy-to-write. Readability is at the very heart of Markdown. It offers the advantages of plain text, provides a convenient format for writing for the web, but it’s not intended to be a replacement for HTML. Markdown is a writing format, not a publishing format. You control the display of the document; formatting words as bold or italic, adding images, and creating lists are just a few of the things we can do with Markdown. Mostly, Markdown is just regular text with a few non-alphabetic characters included, such as # or *.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Markdown rendering.
- Execute code inside your slides.
- Pre-process slides – add a code block with three tildes.
- Accept input through stdin, the standard input stream.
- Search.
- Customize your presentation’s look and feel with metadata at the top of your slides.md.
- Accessible over ssh.
Website: maaslalani.com/slides
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Maas Lalani and contributors
License: MIT License
Slides is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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