Turning markdown in to reveal slides!

The html 5 slides written with reveal.js look awesome. They also allow for markdown. This script takes advantage of that and writes out the entire html file (preamble etc) needed for a reveal slideshow taking a markdown file as an input.

The markdown file shold seperate slides using the # symbol:

#Title of first slide

Some markdown

#Title of second slide

Some more markdown

Note that at the moment no other titles can be indlucded (i.e. don't use '##', '###' etc...).

The idea behind this is that markdown is a great language for writing basic material. Using pandoc you can obtain a bunch of other files from a markdown file:

• LaTeX
• html
• pdf
• docx

Pandoc allows you to create various html 5 slides (not reveal which is my current favorite) as well but I didn't like how it actually did so. This small script takes care of that.

Here's some markdown code:

#The Plan

Class schedule:

- 0900 - 0920: Group presents solution to challenge (R)
- 0920 - 0940: Class discussion (R)
- 0940 - 1040: Lab session (R)
- 1040 - 1100: Break
- 1100 - 1120: Group presents solution to challenge (SAS)
- 1120 - 1140: Class discussion (SAS)
- 1140 - 1040: Lab session (SAS)

Here's the corresponding reveal slide:

Usage

when-changed input_file.md [output_file.html]
when-changed input_file.md [output_file.html] -a AUTHOR -t TITLE -d DESCRIPTION

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