Quarkdown presentations

A small repository for building slide decks with Quarkdown.

Layout

• template.qd is a worked example you can copy as a starting point for a new talk.
• definitions.qd holds shared custom functions and colour variables.
• definitions_slides.qd holds slide-specific settings (font size, centring, page margins).
• graphix/ is where figures live. The template points at graphix/placeholder.svg.

Building

To start a new presentation just copy the template:

cp template.qd mytalk.qd

Compile everything to HTML or PDF with the Makefile:

make html        # all decks to ./output as HTML
make pdf         # all decks to ./output as PDF
make clean       # remove ./output

Or work on a single deck with a live preview that reloads on save:

make preview FILE=mytalk.qd

You can always call the compiler directly too:

quarkdown c template.qd --preview --watch
quarkdown c template.qd --pdf -o output/