ÚFAL Seminar 2025

These ain't Google Slides

...nor slides

Zdeněk Kasner

16 Sep 2025
Charles University
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
unless otherwise stated
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On making ÚFAL presentations

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I like Google Slides

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But there are troubles...

Manual copying of the bottom bar

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...which get the more serious...

Making screenshots of equations

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...the more perfectionist you are.

Awkward table styling

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Tinkering with font size & color

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Imperfect alignment

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What to do about it?

"Use LaTeX instead."

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But what if I really am lazy? 🥲

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Markdown to the rescue? i

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SliMD is not the only one

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One framework stands out among the rest

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After a couple of hours of prompting Claude Sonnet 4 🤖

I have these awesome CSS styles from Milan Straka. I want to have something like this, but with live preview in VSCode.

And some more manual tinkering and adjustments...

Let me introduce...

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ÚFAL Marp Template 🎉

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With Marp, you get...

  • 🖲️ A way to create slides that is simple, fun, and interactive.
  • 📝 Elegance of slides with minimal syntax.
  • i Possibility to version your slides using git.
  • ⚡️ Full power of HTML code.
  • i Good user support and documentation.
  • 🦶 No more manual copying of the orange footer 💪
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Available right now in your Github repos

https://github.com/kasnerz/marp-ufal
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source: ancient Slack flamewar

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ÚFAL Marp Template

Summary

  • This template is...
    • not as tremendous as the LaTeX one.
    • not that easy to collaborate on as the Google Slides one.
    • not equipped with as many features as the SliMD one.
  • But it is simple to use and looks great.

https://github.com/kasnerz/marp-ufal

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