v1.2.0

What's New in v1.2.0

Added

• Auto-numbered captions: Poster compiler automatically prepends bold "Figure X." and "Table X." labels to caption elements
• Hardcoded color palettes: viridis, plasma, inferno, magma, cividis palettes work in CI environments without matplotlib installed

Fixed

• Viridis palette lookup for matplotlib 3.9+ (use dict access instead of deprecated .get())
• CI cross-platform failures across macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Caption label isolation: flex layout no longer forces "Figure X." onto its own line when caption is the last child of a poster section

Changed

• Poster layout refinements: chart-row layout, vertical centering, Figure 2 clipping fix
• Extended Figure 2 caption to multi-line with descriptive text
• Trimmed Limitations box to prevent text overflow

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0

v1.1.1

What's changed

• Fix README image links for PyPI (use absolute GitHub raw URLs)
• Add PyPI version, CI status, and download count badges to README

v1.1.0

CDL Slides v1.1.0

New: Academic Poster Extension

Create professional academic posters with ASCII grid layouts, per-section color theming, and automatic alignment.

Poster features

• ASCII grid layout: Define poster structure with a simple character grid — each letter maps to a section, and its area determines position and size
• Per-section color theming: Set colors per section via [color] syntax (blue, green, violet, orange, teal, spring, red) with individual box overrides
• Automatic box alignment: Sections sharing grid rows get pixel-perfect top/bottom alignment with vertically centered content
• Titleless boxes: Use data-title="" for boxes that don't need a title header
• KaTeX math with Avenir font: Math equations automatically use Avenir to match poster typography
• Callout boxes: All six box types (note, tip, warning, definition, example, important) work inside poster sections
• Emoji figures: Rounded-rectangle backgrounds with optional no-background variants
• Temp file cleanup: Theme directories cleaned up automatically after compilation
• HTML and PDF output: cdl-slides poster compile poster.md --format html

Other changes

• pyyaml added as a core dependency (required for poster front matter parsing)
• Additional scale utility classes: scale-45, scale-40
• Updated README with poster authoring guide, CLI reference, and gallery screenshot

Installation

pip install cdl-slides
cdl-slides setup

Quick start (poster)

cdl-slides poster compile my_poster.md --format html

See the poster authoring guide and examples/sample_poster.md for full documentation.

v1.0.0

CDL Slides v1.0.0

A Python CLI tool that compiles Markdown into CDL-themed Marp presentations.

Highlights

• Batteries included: Animation support (Manim, FFmpeg) included by default
• Animate DSL: Declarative syntax for creating Manim animations without writing Python
• Flow diagrams: Simple ```flow syntax with Dartmouth brand colors
• Smart preprocessing: Auto-splits long code blocks and tables across slides
• Cross-platform: Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux
• Bundled theme: Complete CDL/Dartmouth-branded theme with custom fonts

Installation

macOS:

brew install pango cairo ffmpeg
pip install cdl-slides
cdl-slides setup

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install -y libpango1.0-dev libcairo2-dev ffmpeg
pip install cdl-slides
cdl-slides setup

Windows:

pip install cdl-slides
cdl-slides setup

Quick Start

cdl-slides init my-presentation
cdl-slides compile my-presentation/slides.md

See the README for full documentation.