From b1a2f02082d89b21d659264bc83e0ddbcca656e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:51:36 -0800 Subject: Improved README on slides. --- README | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index de161b367..4435e2812 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@ using [S5], [DZSlides], or [Slidy]. You can also produce a PDF slide show using [LaTeX beamer]: just use the `--beamer` option with `pdf` output. -Here's the markdown source for a simple slide show, `eating.txt`: +Here's the markdown source for a simple slide show, `habits.txt`: % Habits % John Doe @@ -1999,6 +1999,13 @@ for DZSlides, or for beamer. +With all HTML slide formats, the `--self-contained` option can be used to +produce a single file that contains all of the data necessary to display the +slide show, including linked scripts, stylesheets, images, and videos. + +Structuring the slide show +-------------------------- + The document is carved up into slides according to the following rules. The *content level* is the the highest header level in the hierarchy that is followed immediately by content, and not another header, somewhere in @@ -2033,17 +2040,6 @@ website at `w3.org` (for Slidy). (These paths can be changed by setting the `slidy-url` or `s5-url` variables; see `--variable`, above.) For DZSlides, the (relatively short) javascript and css are included in the file by default. -You can change the style of the slides by putting customized CSS files -in `$DATADIR/s5/default` (for S5) or `$DATADIR/slidy` (for Slidy), -where `$DATADIR` is the user data directory (see `--data-dir`, above). -The originals may be found in pandoc's system data directory (generally -`$CABALDIR/pandoc-VERSION/s5/default`). Pandoc will look there for any -files it does not find in the user data directory. - -The `--self-contained` option can be used to produce a single file that -contains all of the data necessary to display the slide show, including -linked scripts, stylesheets, images, and videos. - Incremental lists ----------------- @@ -2059,6 +2055,24 @@ all at once with the `-i` option), put it in a block quote: In this way incremental and nonincremental lists can be mixed in a single document. +Styling the slides +------------------ + +You can change the style of HTML slides by putting customized CSS files +in `$DATADIR/s5/default` (for S5) or `$DATADIR/slidy` (for Slidy), +where `$DATADIR` is the user data directory (see `--data-dir`, above). +The originals may be found in pandoc's system data directory (generally +`$CABALDIR/pandoc-VERSION/s5/default`). Pandoc will look there for any +files it does not find in the user data directory. + +For dzslides, the CSS is included in the HTML file itself, and may +be modified there. + +To style beamer slides, you can specify a beamer "theme" or "colortheme" +using the `-V` option: + + pandoc --beamer habits.txt -V theme:Warsaw -o habits.pdf + Literate Haskell support ======================== -- cgit v1.2.3