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A few years ago I began using Emacs Org-mode and reveal.js to generate slide decks I use in trainings, and I’ve been pleased with the results. (I believe it was Carsten who got me hooked.) It took me a bit to get the settings just the way I wanted to have them, but since then it’s been a matter of typing make in a command line to generate the HTML from the .org file using this in my Makefile, and the resulting *.html is what I open in a browser for display. presentation.html: presentation.org emacs -u jpm \ --batch presentation.org \ --eval '(load user-init-file)' \ -f org-reveal-export-to-html For printing and handouts I want a PDF, but that’s always required a bit of manual work to convert the HTML to PDF, because the tools I tried back then didn’t produce the result I could get manually by opening in a Chrome browser with a ?print-pdf attached the the URL and then a judicious print-to-PDF and save. My idea was to automate that, and I was prompted a few days ago to revisit decktape.…

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