For easy presentations and pitch deck I'm sure it works well.. But the people behind those tools do not seem to have the experience of working with structured lecture notes.
When teaching you need many tools, such as background removal from images, easy cropping, arrows, animating the text in a predefined order, easy positioning and alignment, etc.. Both tool do not offer easy ways to do all of this, even with plug-ins. And the export to a nice pdf is not trivial at all.
At some point I realized that I was spending more time writing html and Javascript than doing the slides. I went back to PowerPoint, and with the same time it took me to make one lecture note in quadro, I could make 4 lectures notes in PowerPoint, and they were better.
So, sadly, this is not yet for me.
What I was looking for:
- easy versioning (good)
- embedding python scripts (good)
- code coloration (good)
- maths (good)
But without the normal features of PowerPoint, the price is too high.
It’s not perfect, but as you say, whenever I’ve made a slide deck outside a gui I’ve regretted it. Quarto is better for documents, but still has rough edges.
One nice thing about Quarto, is that I could have different fonts and formatting niceties for the epub vs PDF version (which the PDF version is the one I use to sell a paperback copy).
Additionally wrote a little script to auto-translate the contents from the markdown, so currently have the book available in Spanish and French as well.
