Introduction to Quarto Presentations

What is a Quarto Presentation?

Mostly a Quarto Document, but with a different output format and a few other small differences


  • revealjs: reveal.js (HTML or PDF)
  • pptx: PowerPoint (MS Office)
  • beamer: Beamer (LaTeX/PDF)

Presentation Components

  1. Metadata: YAML
  2. Text: Markdown
  3. Code: Executed via knitr or jupyter

Creating Slides

Slides are delineated using headings (markdown headings indicated by # characters)

  • You might use a single # (level 1 header) for title slides

  • You might use a ## (level 2 header) for traditional slides

USCOTS Quarto Workshop