I love slidify too and I think that having similar functionnality in org
could be great.
I think that you have everything to do that using the html backend, you
just need to interface the right Javascript/HTML5 library.
In slidify you can use io2012, deck.js, shower and landslide and I know
that you can use deck.js through ox-deck and it will not be difficult to
create and interface for other library too.
For example if you need a nice non Beamer library you can also check
ox-reveal <https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/> which interface reveal.js.

Here is a minimal example with R code.  (Make sure to have ox-reveal.el in
your path and export using C-c C-e R R)




On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:05 AM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
>
> I use R quite a bit, and ran into a new exporter sometime last year called
> Slidify:
> - http://slidify.org/start.html
>
> Would anyone be able to suggest a good starting place for creating a
> possible backend exporter for this? RStudio allows this pretty easily, but
> I really like my prose/code in Orgmode format and working within Emacs.
> Plus, it allows the obvious benefit of exporting to Beamer or Slidify at
> will (perhaps with some tweaks).
>
> I planned to look at the existing non-Beamer libraries for reference, but
> thought it wouldn't hurt to inquire about potential pitfalls based in how
> Slidify works:
> - initializes a git repo with some css/other folders
> - creates an index.Rmd file (markdown, which one edits to create
> presentation)
> - spits out an index.html file when you run `slidify("index.Rmd")`
>
> I think the folders in the presentation directory could be initialized and
> then Org syntax could be converted to R markdown, followed by running the
> slidify command to compile, but am not sure.
>
> I'm coming from ~zero elisp experience but think this would be a neat
> hobby project if I could pull it off.
>
>
> Thanks for any input,
> John
>



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