Slides¶
When it comes to slides, less is definitely more. However, presentation packages have been able to support the "less" bits ever since their invention, so companies selling them have had to cram them with tons of features that do not contribute to a good presentation. Fancy slide transitions, themes with fancy graphics and layouts, embedded videos, etc.
Consequently, solutions for producing simple but functional slide decks for presentations from plain text input files have existed for a long time. The first one I used was Beamer, which turns LaTeX into PDF slides. Since I wanted to have HTML output and both slides and long-form notes, I started experimenting with static site generators, first Jekyll, then Material for MkDocs.
Zensical is now replacing Material for MkDocs and I decided to refresh my slide theme and publish it for everyone to enjoy. I named it Decksical for a short and pronounceable name with a tip of the hat to Zensical itself. It supports both the Zensical theme variants (modern and classic) and [Catppucin] via the catppuccin-zensical theme. Check it out...