Presentations

Quarto - authoring and publishing tools for collaborative scientific writing

Lars Schöbitz

April 10, 2024

Anatomy of a Quarto presentation

Components

  1. Metadata: YAML

  2. Text: Markdown

  3. Code: Executed via knitr or jupyter

Weave it all together, and you have a beautiful, functional slide deck!

Our turn

Let’s build a presentation together from hello-penguins-slides.qmd and showcase the following features of Quarto presentations:

  • Hierarchy, headers, and document outline

  • Incremental lists

  • Columns and tabsets

  • Code, output location, code highlighting

  • Logo and footer

  • Making things fit on a slide

  • Chalkboard

Your turn

Pick up where we left off and

  • Change the transition style between slides (on quarto.org: search for “slide transitions” in search bar)

  • Add slide numbers to your slides (on quarto.org: search for “slide numbers” in search bar)

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Wrap up

Quarto presentation formats

  • revealjs for HTML slides

    • Essentially the replacement for xaringan, but with Pandoc-native syntax

  • beamer for LaTeX slides

  • PowerPoint for when you have to collaborate via MS Office

Learn more

quarto.org/docs/presentations

https://quarto-ambition.github.io/website/