The pandoc markdown file (template.md) and pandoc template (class.dzslides) can be used to generate a dzslides deck (template.html). This generated deck includes a wider range of slides types than the default dzslides template.html (e.g., traditional, Takahashi black and white; images with shadowed overlay (PechaKucha), centered, and floated left and right).

Check out the resulting deck!

pandoc --template=class.dzslides -t dzslides --standalone template.md > template.html

Image Tips

regular image
    ![alt](media/img.jpg)\ 
stretch image to fill screen; alt is overlay
    ![overlay](media/img.jpg)
stretch image to fill screen; h4 is overlay
    #### overlay + ![alt](media/img.jpg)
constrain image; h5 is overlay
    ##### overlay + ![alt](media/img.jpg)

Issues

1. The latest functionality of dzslides (such as overview mode) may not be in pandoc's $dzslides-core$. I've replaced $dzslides-core$ with the latest from dzslides (first escaping all javascript $ via $$.)
2. Make sure you are not using an early version of pandoc that give every slide an h1, even if empty (see #484.)
3. There's some ugly CSS trying to account for: (a) No easy vertical centers, so there's lots of margin futzing; (b) No easy image scaling; (c) and needing to use CSS selectors to guess what type of slide it should be (e.g., image with text should be floated to the left or right; an image alone should be full screen). A future version of pandoc will support header attributes "which will appear on the enclosing div or section containers in slide shows." When this happens I should be able to clean up some of the complex selectors in favor of explicit declarations in the header attribute.