Making Presentation Websites from Markdown

I’m using a tool recommended by my boss, reveal JS. This allows me to use Markdown, which I am a fan of from my times doing README driven development.

Now, we use pandoc to reveal to create the HTML page of our presentation.

pandoc --to=revealjs -V revealjs-url=. -V theme=white --self-contained --output=weekly.html --slide-level 2 weekly_template.md

The only downside to this approach is that an html file isn’t the most common thing to share. Thankfully revealjs has a nice “export to pdf” function, by appending /?print-pdf as the query string, we can render a PDF version in our browser, and then use the print feature to print to PDF and share or present to your group.