On: Show HN: 30-second Slideshows for Hackers

[adiM]

How does it compare with Pandoc[1], which is the swiss-army knife of Markdown-to-foo converters, and also handles presentations.

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

[Pitarou → adiM]

Pandoc does something pretty similar.

But that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for both projects. Pandoc strives to be a universal converter, and that means there are certain things it couldn't / shouldn't do. For example, you could add special kinds of slide effects or transitions to Cleaver's markdown dialect that wouldn't be appropriate for Pandoc.

[prezjordan → adiM]

Just looking through the "HTML Slides" examples, seems like Pandodoc is more than capable of achieving what Cleaver does (and much, much more).

[nsmartt → prezjordan]

You didn't find a solution that met your precise needs, so you started building one. Don't let the fact that other solutions exist get you down.

[Keyframe → nsmartt]

I feel like this always happens when I'm either done or almost done with my projects as well.

[dindresto → prezjordan]

Being so lightweight makes Cleaver far cooler, since that makes it easier to hack on it, and customize it.

[nborwankar → adiM]

Also look at Asciidoc which outputs Slidy slideshows.