Deckset Basics

Everything you need to know to start making presentations

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Built on Markdown

Deckset uses standard Markdown syntax to transform your thoughts into a beautiful presentation.

This slide is one of the simplest types of slides you can create, it contains two paragraphs of text and a header.

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Creating slides

A new slide is defined by three dashes ‘---’ typed on a single line, with an empty line above and below.

Like

---

So

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Paragraphs

Creating paragraphs is simple, just type — no special syntax needed.

You can include a paragraph break by leaving an empty line between the paragraphs. Otherwise lines will follow on directly like this.

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Headers

Headers are created by including a # before the text:

# This is a header .

Deckset has four different heading sizes. You can change size by simply adding #, ##, ### or #### before your heading.

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Lists

Ordered lists
Type ‘1. ’ before your text
Your list items will begin with a number

Unordered lists
Type ‘-’ or ‘*’ or ‘+’ before your text
Your list items will begin with a bullet

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Emphasis

Use strong, emphasis or a combination of both to make your point stand out.

strong text by wrapping words in double asterisks or underlines ‘like this’ or ‘_this’. Emphasis is added by wrapping words in single asterisks or underlines ‘like this’ or ‘this_’. Combine a single with a double for both effects at the same time.

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Links

Create links to any external resource—like a website—by wrapping link text in square brackets, followed immediately by a set of regular parentheses containing the URL where you want the link to point:

‘a website’

Your links will be clickable in exported PDFs as well!

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Code samples

Wrap your code with three backticks and specify the language for automatic syntax highlighting.

``objectivec UIView *someView = [[UIView alloc] init]; NSString *string = @"some string that is fairly long, with many words"; ``

We scale the text dynamically so it always looks great. You can also use a single indent to switch to a monospace font.

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Images

The simplest way to get images into your presentation is to drop a local or web image onto the Deckset window — the markdown is automatically created and copied to your clipboard.

You can also add images with the following syntax:

‘’

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If you use text and images together, the image is filtered so the text is always readable.

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Take a look at the ‘Working with images’ example presentation for a complete overview of what you can do with images in Deckset.

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Videos can be included too, either as local files or YouTube links.

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Quotes

All slides containing a single quote have special formatting for extra impact.

Add ‘>’ in front of every quote line And add ‘--’ for the quote author reference

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> The best way to predict the future is to invent it

- Alan Kay

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Footers and Slide Numbers

Include persistent custom footers and/or running slide numbers by using directives:

Make sure the two directives start on the first line of your markdown file, and ensure there are no empty lines between the two.

footer: © Unsigned Integer UG, 2017
slidenumbers: true

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Speaker notes

Add speaker notes to any slide by adding ‘^’ before your notes. Write as much as you like, all notes will be scaled to fit in the display.

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Rehearsal mode

Choose Rehearsal Slideshow from the View menu to run through your presentation and see how it will work on the day.

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Aspect Ratios

Easily swap between 16:9 and 4:3 in the Presentation menu to suit whichever projector or screen you are using.

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More control with a little HTML

If you really must tweak line breaks, you can use the tag to split any line of text.

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