With nics, it is possible to create PowerPoint quality presentations, without compromising on images, figures, colors, font sizes and absolute positioning. All this without copying LaTeX from Stack Overflow.
As with Markdown or Beamer, you will have source code for your slides and can save them in Git for versioning and collaboration. Our format has an explicit structure, that is well documented. No surprises!
Nics automatically highlights the syntax of your code snippets in the presentation, with the integrated Pygments library. Easy to maintain, easy to git diff.
Writing code is good, waiting for compilation is bad. Nics recompiles your slidedeck a hundred slides a second, making it possible to go crazy with the edit-compile-view cycle.
Your slides will be generated to a self-contained PDF document. This will display pixel perfect everywhere. On mobile, on desktop and even on the loaner laptop that you have received at the venue last minute.
We aim for no disruptive syntax changes and for complete reproducibility. But, we also checksum every page with MD5 and this can be stored in git to be confident that nics still works the same.
Our markup format is carefully documented and tested. Nevertheless, if you find bugs, please contact us on GitHub and we will jump right into it.
Once we are in contact on GitHub, your internet pals will help out as quickly as possible. If you are rich, tell us before we help you; we are happy to help for some compensation too!
Capability demonstration (online, offline): an example slideshow, to evaluate nics capabilities. Serves as a cheatsheet, keep the source code open to see the markup.
Reference documentation in nics slides: online, offline, source code
When ready to get your hands dirty, creating your first slideshow, follow the Getting started part of our README.
Secure C++ programming (slides for a course, that we have delivered for a client in Dublin): online, offline, source code
Find us on GitHub. Feel free to ask questions via the issue tracker, or tell us your success stories using the "success story" tag.
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