These are instructions how to create awesome "Ontotext"-themed html presentations using plaintext.

The process uses Quarto to do the conversion from markdown to html and reveal.js as a presentation framework.

Here is an example presentation, built form this source.

Don't use the repos, install from Quarto's download page.

git clone [email protected]:sol/presentations.git

The presentation is in Quarto markdown, based onpandoc markdown, which is very similar to the standard markdown everybody knows from gitlab and github. Here is a markdown cheat sheet The presentation syntax is really simple - section headings define the slides. Anything between is rendered in the slide.

You can build 2d presentation with level 1 headings # title of the part define the columns and level 2 headings ## title of the slide define the slides. For a linear presentation use only level 2 headings.

The presentation.qmd file in this projects runs over the most common slide configurations. You are encouraged to use it as a starting template for your own creations.

Include the following yaml block (with starting and ending ---) in the beginning of the .qmd file. This is information about the title slide and parameters for reveal.js. Use quotes if you include non alphanumerical characters.

---
author: "Your Name"
title: "The title of your presentation"
date: "01/01/1970"
format: revealjs
---

Only title and format attributes are required, author, subtitle, date are optional, but are very welcome.

Several other parameters such as the theme, transition and syntax highlighting styles are also required by reveal.js. For convenience they are included in a separate yaml file here. However, you can tune the appearance of slides (custom background, custom transition options etc.) and store it into markdown/your-folder/_metadata.yml. It will have the priority over common appearance.

If you use the presentation.qmd file from this project you can use the following command in the command line:

quarto render

site/markdown/your-folder/presentation.html contains your presentation.

The list of all presentations is updated automatically.