Slyde

Slyde is a Markdown-based slide authoring and presentation tool written in Ruby and JavaScript.

How it works

Slyde takes normal markdown files and parses them into indavidual slides by using first, second, and third-level headers as page breaks. Then it serves those slides over HTTP using a simple Sinatra backend.

Why use Slyde?

  • Rapid content development: Creating a new presentation is as easy as writing some Markdown and running rackup. No more bloated WYSIWYG!
  • Collaborative content: Traditional slide presentation tools like PowerPoint and Keynote make it nearly impossible to collaborate on presentations. By using Markdown as the basis for slide content, authors can use Git or any version control system to collaborate on a single presentation effectively.
  • Portability: Since presentations are witten in Markdown, one can use any number of Markdown-based tools to distribute content.

Installation

Install the latest verison of Slyde:

$ gem install slyde

Start a new presentation using the slyde command:

$ slyde my_new_presentation

Contributing

  1. Fork it
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create new Pull Request

License

Slyde is an open source software project released under the MIT license. See MIT-LICENSE.txt in the project root for more details.