Question

I’m using the amazing Pandoc to convert from Markdown to the Slidy slideshow format. I’d like to edit the Slidy CSS but I can’t for the life of me figure out where the CSS file is that’s getting used. I’ve found a bunch of slidy.css files here and there and tried modifying them, but Pandoc’s Slidy output never changes.

Does anyone know where slidy.css is by default on OSX? Thanks!

Answer 1

By default pandoc uses the CSS and javascript files from the slidy website. If you want to use local versions, create a directory, say myslidy, with subdirectories scripts and styles. Put slidy.js.gz in scripts and slidy.css in styles. Then call pandoc with the following options:

pandoc -s -t slidy -V slidy-url=myslidy

Pandoc will then link to your local CSS file. If you’d like to include all of this in the HTML file itself, so it doesn’t depend on the external myslidy directory, then add the option --self-contained.

Another option is to keep using the slidy script from the slidy website, but substitute your own CSS file. To do that, you’d have to create a custom slidy template with a different stylesheet link. To get your own copy of the default template, do

pandoc -D slidy > my.slidy

Edit the CSS link in this file, and call pandoc with

pandoc -s -t slidy --template my.slidy