This is a Pandoc template to generate reveal.js slideshows.
Pandoc is a "universal markup converter" you can run from the command line to convert a simple, plain text file into a beautifully formatted PDF, .docx, HTML, LaTeX, slideshows… the list goes on.
reveal.js is a CSS and JavaScript framework for creating beautiful presentations in HTML5, designed by Hakim El Hattab.
In order to begin using the template below, you must…
- Install the following in the same directory:
- slides.md
- template-revealjs.html
- css, js, lib folders downloaded here
- any images you may want to include (i.e. aeschylus.jpg as listed in slides.md below)
- Navigate to your directory from the command line and run the following:
pandoc -t html5 -s --template=template.revealjs.html --standalone --section-divs --variable theme="sky" -o slides.html slides.md
- the theme ("sky" above) can be changed to any of the options listed here
- transitions can be modified by adding
transition="zoom"
or any of the other optoins listed here