Minor annoyances are: no MathJax support (see above), no way to customize theme easily or syntax highlighting (in my Beamer presentation, I customize lstlistings to highlight all R language-specific keywords). If you like text-based editing, doesn’t care about complex layouts (which might be a good idea for visual presentation after all), and do not make heavy use of mathematical notation, then Deckset is worth to take a look. Finally, images are handled very decently (although not shown above). It further allows to write down in Markdown, which is pretty good, and it has built-in syntax highlighting for many programming languages.
#Deckset mac pro#
On the Pro side, Deckset is easy to use and it provides live preview, much like Apple Keynote. Deckset doesn’t seem to like Emacs auto-fill very much (like Marked.app, in fact), and I had to unfill all paragraphs in the original Markdown file.Unfortunately, Dekset is not able to render $\LaTeX$ mathematical symbols using MathJax at the moment.This is another reason to break down the original layout.
![deckset mac deckset mac](https://applesencia.com/files/2014/04/deckset.jpg)
#Deckset mac code#
Also, Deckset automatically scale down blocks of code when there is not enough free space on the slide. There’s probably a way to change the font size, but it looks pretty good as it stands. I had to split some of the slides into two or more slides, because of the default font for the theme I choose.
![deckset mac deckset mac](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/12/36/99/123699491fd7f2d7c249114f9be5dc7e--mac-os-app-store.jpg)
Note that this uses the nice PTmono and Lato fonts. (The complete slides are here: 02-eda.pdf.)Īnd here is what I was able to achieve with a default grey theme:Ĭhanging theme is really easy and it applies globally.
#Deckset mac pdf#
If you are interested, see my beamer.latex template and the Makefile I used to generate the PDF slides. It took me some time, however, to get the definitive look-and-feel that I was looking for. This way, I was able to focus on the content rather than the layout. Initially, I used a combination of Pandoc and a custom Beamer template to process a set of Markdown files (with a bit of pure LaTeX instructions, though). In what follows, I will use some materials I wrote for a training in Biostatistics with R. and then have one person responsible to export the final Deckset deck. It is something to consider if you are happy with Keynotes or Beamer. One presentation app Ive liked for a while is Deckset, a Markdown presentation. Unlike Pandoc, it is a paid application (available on the AppStore). In fact, Deckset is better described as a presenter not an authoring tool. Any editor that supports Markdown editing (well, basically all text editors) can be used, which means that I can write in Emacs. Slides are rendered as you type your Markdown slides, which is pretty handy, and figures can be displayed in different manner (fit to screen, left- or right-aligned, filtered, or at a specific % of the original size). The idea of Deckset is that you write simple Markdown (like when using Pandoc) and slides are formatted using gorgeous themes.
![deckset mac deckset mac](https://mac-cdn.softpedia.com/screenshots/Deckset_1.png)
Now that I upgraded to Mavericks (OS X 10.9), I decided to give a try to Deckset which I mentioned in a previous post on Markdown and slideshow.