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Slide Show (S9)

Write Your Talks in Plain Text w/ Markdown

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What's Slide Show (S9)?

What?

A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote in Ruby

Getting Started in 1-2-3 Easy Steps

  • Step 1: Write your slides in plain text using markdown formatting conventions
  • Step 2: Build your slide show using the slideshow command line tool
  • Step 3: Open up your slide show in your browser and hit the space bar to flip through your slides
  • That’s it. Showtime!

Write Your Talks in Plain Text w/ Markdown

Lets you write your talks and slides in plain text with markdown formatting conventions that are designed for easy writing and easy reading. Sample:

# What's Slide Show (S9)?

### What?

A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote in Ruby

### Getting Started in 1-2-3 Easy Steps

- Step 1: Write your slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language
- Step 2: Build your slide show using the `slideshow` gem
- Step 3: Open up your slide show in your browser
- That's it. Showtime!

How it works - Just press F11!

The Slide Show (S9) Ruby gem turns your slides in plain text into a web page that’s an all-in-one-page handout and a live slide show all at once.

$ slideshow build tutorial

=> Preparing slideshow 'tutorial.html'...
=> Done.

Turn your web page into a slide show and your browser into full screen projection with a single push button (F11). Hit the space bar or the right arrow, down arrow or page down key to flip through your slides.

That’s all. It’s that simple.