Generating meeting presentation slides III

Background

Just to summarize (see my previous posts for details). Markdown presentation is known to be bit of hybrid between PPT and beamer, where, while former affords flexibility of figure/diagram placement, supports various styles, is prone to inconsistency in font, style and difficult to work equations with, which causes presentation slides to look amateurish and all over the place; beamer addresses the above problems with a very restrictive template, one which lacks any creativity.

Markdown reaps the benefit of both. I updated the workflow recently to include a better mixture of structure and flexibility. On the structure side, a single SCSS theme now fixes the font, color palette, and heading style deck-wide — headings sit in sentence case with a consistent accent rule, math renders through a fixed MathJax setup, and theorem, definition, and lemma environments share one styled treatment — so the amateurish drift that plagues free-form slides never gets a foothold. On the flexibility side, native markdown handles the things beamer makes painful: figures drop into a true two-column split or float beside text, references pin to the bottom of the slide they belong to, and a small library of callout blocks — takeaways, notes, key boxes, cards — breaks the monotony of endless bullets without any hand-written HTML. The result is a template that enforces consistency where it matters and gets out of the way where it doesn’t.

I’ve attached the keyboard shortcuts and my scss files on my github, to begin using Quarto (works seamlessly with vscode), go to QuartoWebsite. Below is an example presentation (Note that I had to remove Chalkboard functions because of conflicts that I don’t have time to fix).