Sounds like you have your weekend project.

I thought that too before I spent some time with a Markdown based presentation like Landslide:

https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

I found myself needing to "drop down" into HTML quite often as my slides were more complex then just the simple bullet point lists.

Markdown just didn't have the expressiveness I needed for a presentation. Markdown would be fine for a say a word document but there is more need for complex layout in a good presentation sometimes.

Inline HTML is a part of the Markdown syntax though: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

So you can use Markdown for most of the content, and HTML when you need more complex layout control.

You're right it does and that's what I use. But something doesn't feel right when over half my slides are using that particular feature.

I use Slidedown[1] for that. It has some wrinkles, but overall I find it does what I need it to do with very little hassle.

[1] https://github.com/nakajima/slidedown

https://github.com/bracki/showoff is what you want; maybe it's possible to move the theme to showoff?

Just curious, but why link to that fork rather than the creator's main branch[1]? (I'm genuinely curious: maybe ownership has changed?)

[1] https://github.com/schacon/showoff

Sorry I was just lazy.. :) Thanks for the actual link.

you might be interested at using Jekyll for that purpose; http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

I use it already for generating websites, but I haven't seen a plugin for it that makes it easy to generate slides like these.