The full ModernSlides syntax: blocks, columns, reveals and keyboard shortcuts

Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-02

Kevin Bryan published the complete syntax and live demo of ModernSlides. Key points: block-level syntax for Title/Header/BigText/Text/Quote/Image/Code/Aside/Background; Containers for multi-column layouts (Columns) and aligned tables (Table) with inline LaTeX; step-based reveals via Text(steps) and [Step] tags; keyboard shortcuts (E edit/present, F fullscreen, S speaker window, P print); and one-click publishing of the entire deck—images embedded—to your own site as a single JSON file. A complete workflow academics can try today.

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