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pandoc markdown slides shown as a long html page

I am experimenting with markdown slides, using this example:

% My Lovely Title
% I am the author

# First Slide 🌎

- bullet one
- bullet two
- bullet three

# Second Slide

- this is important
- this is not

When I generate the slideshow it appears in the browser (Firefox, Chrome) as a single html file

$ pandoc -t slidy -s slides.md -o slides.html

What am I missing?

Solution

  • TLDR: nothing was wrong with pandoc, it was completely the browser's fault.

    Apparently, some browsers have a strict policy against running javascript in certain scenarios. I'm not exactly sure how to disable it, but the display as html slides is using javascript in a way that triggers heavy alarms in my browser, causing it to be displayed as one long html file.