1. How to make keynote like presentation with Markdown @kodukiOct 27, 2013

2. IntroductionWhy am I not satised with PowerPointa and Keynote? PowerPoint or keynote are a good tool. But this has some problems. It is hard to be the same layout. (Template is freedom too.) It needs a Oce Application. Binary! This means is that git or svn do not good work. 3. Solution => Markdow and Panddoc Markdown Markdown is simple text format! Git or svn work very good. It is easy-to-read and easy-to-write. It provides a simple sentence structure.Pandoc Pandoc is multi format transrator. (HTML, PDF, docx, markdown,LaTex, reStructuredText. . . ) This is able to make slide from markdown. Not only HTML base(ex. s5) but also PDF is. 4. How to use Install Pandoc. Mac is download pkg.http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/downloads/ Tex to generate PDF Install MacTex(please select suit your platform)http://tug.org/mactex/ Run command $ pandoc t beamer t e s t . md o t e s t . p d f 5. Example 6. Change Template Download and Copy I want use keynote like presentation desigin. Download this beamerthemeKeynoteLikeGradient.sty. $ s ud o cp . / b e a m e r t h e m e K e y n o t e L i k e G r a d i e n t . s t y / u s r / l o c a l / t e x l i v e /2013/ texmfd i s t / t e x / l a t e x / beamer / themes / theme /Update Theme Index Run Tex Live Utility re-install someting package.(Mabey there is better solution. :P )Run command $ pandoc V theme : K e y n o t e L i k e G r a d i e n t t beamer t e s t . md o test . pdf 7. Modify code block desigin. Using listing option. Default code block is very simple. Listing is code format module. $ pandoc l i s t i n g s t beamer t e s t . md o t e s t . p d f Make header.tex. This is some settings(font, background, line. . . ) Add -H option, for header. $ pandoc H h e a d e r . t e x l i s t i n g s t beamer t e s t . md o test . pdf 8. header.tex sample.usepackage { l i s t i n g s }l s t s e t {% %l a n g u a g e ={s h } , b a c k g r o u n d c o l o r ={ c o l o r [ r g b ] { 0 . 1 , 0 . 1 , 0.1}} ,% b a s i c s t y l e = f o o t n o t e s i z e ,% c o m m e n t s t y l e= t e x t i t ,% c l a s s o f f s e t =1,% k e y w o r d s t y l e = b f s e r i e s ,% f r a m e=tRBl , f r a m e s e p=5pt ,% b r e a k l i n e s=t r u e , s h o w s t r i n g s p a c e s=f a l s e ,% %numbers=l e f t , s t e p n u m b e r =1 , n u m b e r s t y l e = f o o t n o t e s i z e% } 9. Conclusions Markdown and Pandoc are good tool for typical presentationdocument. If you want to make graphical presentaion, You should usePowerPoint or Keynote. But if you want to make typical presentation document quickly andlightweight, You try run this command. $ pandoc l i s t i n g s H h e a d e r . t e x V theme : K e y n o t e L i k e G r a d i e n t t beamer t e s t . md o t e s t . p d f This code is following url. https://gist.github.com/koduki/7183121 Happy Hacking!