lecture-slides

Markdown to lecture slides

(with some beamer bells and whistles, by a Keynote refugee)

Create notes in the notes/ directory, on the model of classnotes.md. Then generate a PDF of slides with

make -C slides classnotes.pdf

slides/classnotes.pdf is the result on my system. (Of course you can also cd slides; make classnotes.pdf, but I feel more like a command-line master if I use make -C from the top-level directory.)

If you have Keynote and want to use it as a presentation PDF viewer, install PDF to Keynote and then do

make -C slides classnotes.key

To generate notes (note pages interleaved with slide pages):

make -C notes classnotes.pdf

notes/classnotes.pdf is the result on my system.

I like to print these 4-up in landscape. To generate this format:

make -C notes classnotes-4up.pdf

To make all slide and note PDFs at once, use make all by itself from the top-level directory. (One feels even more of a command-line master when one uses $(MAKE) in a Makefile).

(To get all the keynote files, try make all_key, but no promises: my little AppleScript for running PDF To Keynote may not work quite right in that case.)

I discuss how the bits and pieces work together, and the rationale for doing this, in a blog post: "Easy Lecture Slides Made Difficult with Pandoc and Beamer."