HKUST(GZ) Marpit Template for Presentation

Introduction

Marpit Presentation Template for The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) (HKUST(GZ)), the

Advantage of Markdown

• No worry to layout, just focus on what you want to present.
• Easy to design your own theme
• No large software installation required

Markdown VS LateX

To be completed

Item	Markdown	Latex

Usage

Download the template and theme

In Release page, click the compressed file related to your university,

Install VScode add-ons

In VScode market space, search Marp for VS Code and click install,

if you are new to Markdown on VS Code you should also install Markdown All in One on your VS Code.

Add theme

• Copy the theme folder to your workspace
• In the theme dictionary, right click the theme file and select copy relative path
• Open settings of VS Code, search Markdown › Marp: Themes, click the Add item buttom and paste the path you copied.

Write markdown

You can write your markdown code from the template, or just copy the config below to the beginning of your file.

---
marp: true
theme: HKUSTGZStd
paginate: true
size: 1080P

header: '![](Theme/logo.png)'
footer: 'Your Presentation, Name, Date, or Conference'
---

You can click the Markdown Preview button to see the rendered view.

The content of footer can be edited by your self

Choose Slide Size

As you may see, in your university there is multiple size of screen with different ratio, here you can adjust the size , we have pre defined several size for you.

• 16:9 1280px 720px
• 4:3 960px 720px
• 1080P 1920px 1080px
• 4k 3840px 2160px
• square 1000px 1000px

Also you can defind the size by yourself by size: width height, the unit can be cm, in, mm, pc, pt, and px.

Export your slide

Clicking the Marpit button on the upper-rightt, and you can export the slides with Export Side Deck .

Want to customise your slide?

I am not from HKUST(GZ)

Currently, we have prepared special release for students from Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), you can download the pack from release page.

Other wise, you can change the settings by your self.

Change the color

To be completed.

Change the Logo

To be completed.

Resource for reference

Markdown syntax

Please refer to Markdown Guide

More about Marpit

If you are interested in Marpited, you can refer to its website.

What's NEXT

For Inter-University Friendship

The specially design version for SUSTech and SYSU will keep updatig with the HKUST(GZ)/HKUST vesion

Further Developing

Global Settings

• Add special size preset for display in large lecture hall
• Adjust header and footer design

Resources

• Design better title page decoration
• Design background for content page

Style

• Adjust the style for body/content
• Adjust the style for lists
• Adjust the style for table

Image

• Add caption to the image

Advanced Layout Design

• Two column layout

File structure

• Generate / Store the image and css settings online.
• Intergrate all the css files in one.

Other projects on the way

• HKUST(GZ) Marpit Slide Template: Dark mode
• HKUST(GZ) Marpit Slide Template: For online conference
• HKUST(GZ) Marpit Slide Template: For homework
• HKUST(GZ) Latex Slide Template
• HKUST(GZ) Latex Report Template