markdown or markup to powerpoint?

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I need to maintain some slides in both latex beamer and in powerpoint. (This is to make slides available for instructors elsewhere, too, 90% of which do not know how to use latex and are unwilling to learn it. and I am a latex guy on linux.)

I have tried the route via Libreoffice (and opendocument), but this did not come out well. right now, the best method that I have found is to author pdf in beamer, then run it through a nuance OCR program to get MS Word...and not even go all the way to Powerpoint (which is where I really need to be).

If I only had a markup language that produced nice Powerpoint, I could probably code a perl translator from markdown to this intermediate markup language. (going from markdown to latex beamer is relatively easy.)

I don't think this exists, but hope springs eternal. after all, it is almost 2014 now. does anyone know of a solution?

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I also am a Linux guy and I also use LateX engines to create nice documents. Based on my experience, here's what you should do :

  • Stop writing directly in LaTeX and start using org-mode to write documents instead (I spent years writing in LaTeX and now it's over (except when I use modernv package))
  • Org supports latex math formulas and .org files are easily exported in .tex files
  • Org can also be easily exported in markdown
  • Once you have your markdown, there are several tools that will allow you to create a PowerPoint. Two of them are pandoc and md2pptx
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