marp-slide

# Marp Slide Creator

Create professional, visually appealing Marp presentation slides with 7 pre-designed themes and built-in best practices.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user:
- Requests to create presentation slides or Marp documents
- Asks to "make slides look good" or "improve slide design"
- Provides vague instructions like "良い感じにして" (make it nice) or "かっこよく" (make it cool)
- Wants to create lecture or seminar materials
- Needs bullet-point focused slides with occasional images

## Quick Start

### Step 1: Select Theme

First, determine the appropriate theme based on the user's request and content.

**Quick theme selection:**
- **Technical/Developer content** → tech theme
- **Business/Corporate** → business theme
- **Creative/Event** → colorful or gradient theme
- **Academic/Simple** → minimal theme
- **General/Unsure** → default theme
- **Dark background preferred** → dark or tech theme

For detailed theme selection guidance, read references/theme-selection.md.

### Step 2: Create Slides

1. **Read relevant references first**:
- Always start by reading references/marp-syntax.md for basic syntax
- For images: references/image-patterns.md (official Marpit image syntax)
- For advanced features (math, emoji): references/advanced-features.md
- For custom themes: references/theme-css-guide.md

2. Copy content from the appropriate template file:
- assets/template-basic.md - Default theme (most common)
- assets/template-minimal.md - Minimal theme
- assets/template-colorful.md - Colorful theme
- assets/template-dark.md - Dark mode theme
- assets/template-gradient.md - Gradient theme
- assets/template-tech.md - Tech/code theme
- assets/template-business.md - Business theme

3. Read references/best-practices.md for quality guidelines

4. Structure content following best practices:
- Title slide with <!-- _class: lead -->
- Concise h2 titles (5-7 characters in Japanese)
- 3-5 bullet points per slide
- Adequate whitespace

5. Add images if needed using patterns from references/image-patterns.md

6. Save to /mnt/user-data/outputs/ with .md extension

## Available Themes

### 1. Default Theme
**Colors**: Beige background, navy text, blue headings
**Style**: Clean, sophisticated with decorative lines
**Use for**: General seminars, lectures, presentations
**Template**: template-basic.md

### 2. Minimal Theme
**Colors**: White background, gray text, black headings
**Style**: Minimal decoration, wide margins, light fonts
**Use for**: Content-focused presentations, academic talks
**Template**: template-minimal.md

### 3. Colorful & Pop Theme
**Colors**: Pink gradient background, multi-color accents
**Style**: Vibrant gradients, bold fonts, rainbow accents
**Use for**: Youth-oriented events, creative projects
**Template**: template-colorful.md

### 4. Dark Mode Theme
**Colors**: Black background, cyan/purple accents
**Style**: Dark theme with glow effects, eye-friendly
**Use for**: Tech presentations, evening talks, modern look
**Template**: template-dark.md

### 5. Gradient Background Theme
**Colors**: Purple/pink/blue/green gradients (varies per slide)
**Style**: Different gradient per slide, white text, shadows
**Use for**: Visual-focused, creative presentations
**Template**: template-gradient.md

### 6. Tech/Code Theme
**Colors**: GitHub-style dark background, blue/green accents
**Style**: Code fonts, Markdown-style headers with # symbols
**Use for**: Programming tutorials, tech meetups, developer content
**Template**: template-tech.md

### 7. Business Theme
**Colors**: White background, navy headings, blue accents
**Style**: Corporate presentation style, top border, table support
**Use for**: Business presentations, proposals, reports
**Template**: template-business.md

## Creating Slides Process

### Basic Workflow

1. **Understand requirements**
- Identify content: title, topics, key points
- Determine target audience
- Assess formality level

2. **Select theme**
- Use quick selection rules above
- If uncertain, consult references/theme-selection.md
- Default to default theme if still unsure

3. **Apply template**
- Load appropriate template from assets/
- CSS is already embedded - no external files needed
- Maintain template structure

4. **Structure content**
- Title slide: <!-- _class: lead --> + h1
- Content slides: h2 title + bullet points
- Keep titles to 5-7 characters (Japanese)
- Use 3-5 bullet points per slide

5. **Refine quality**
- Read references/best-practices.md
- Ensure adequate whitespace
- Maintain consistency
- Keep text concise (15-25 chars per line)

6. **Add images**
- If needed, consult references/image-patterns.md
- Common: ![bg right:40%](image.png) for side images
- Use proper Marp image syntax

7. **Output file**
- Save to /mnt/user-data/outputs/
- Use descriptive filename like presentation.md

## Handling "Make It Look Good" Requests

When users give vague instructions like "良い感じにして", "かっこよく", or "make it cool":

1. **Infer theme from content**:
- Business content → business theme
- Technical content → tech or dark theme
- Creative content → gradient or colorful theme
- General → default theme

2. **Apply best practices automatically**:
- Shorten titles to 5-7 characters
- Limit bullet points to 3-5 items
- Add adequate whitespace
- Use consistent structure

3. **Enhance visual hierarchy**:
- Use h3 for sub-sections when appropriate
- Break up dense text into multiple slides
- Ensure logical flow (intro → body → conclusion)

4. **Maintain professional tone**:
- Match formality to content
- Use parallel structure in lists
- Keep technical terms consistent

## Image Integration

For slides with images, consult references/image-patterns.md for detailed syntax.

Common patterns:
- **Side image**: ![bg right:40%](image.png) - Image on right, text on left
- **Centered**: ![w:600px](image.png) - Centered with specific width
- **Full background**: ![bg](image.png) - Full-screen background
- **Multiple images**: Multiple ![bg] declarations

Example lecture pattern:

## Slide Title

![bg right:40%](diagram.png)

- Explanation point 1
- Explanation point 2
- Explanation point 3

## File Output

Always save the final Marp file to /mnt/user-data/outputs/ with .md extension:
- presentation.md
- seminar-slides.md
- lecture-materials.md

## Quality Checklist

Before delivering slides, verify:
- [ ] Theme selected appropriately for content
- [ ] CSS theme is embedded in the file
- [ ] Title slide uses <!-- _class: lead -->
- [ ] All h2 titles are concise (5-7 chars)
- [ ] Bullet points are 3-5 items per slide
- [ ] Images use proper Marp syntax
- [ ] File saved to outputs directory
- [ ] Content follows best practices

## References

### Core Documentation
- **Marp syntax**: references/marp-syntax.md - Basic Marp/Marpit syntax (directives, frontmatter, pagination, etc.)
- **Image patterns**: references/image-patterns.md - Official image syntax (bg, filters, split backgrounds)
- **Theme CSS guide**: references/theme-css-guide.md - How to create custom themes based on Marpit specification
- **Advanced features**: references/advanced-features.md - Math, emoji, fragmented lists, Marp CLI, VS Code
- **Official themes**: references/official-themes.md - default, gaia, uncover themes documentation

### Quality & Selection Guides
- **Theme selection**: references/theme-selection.md - How to choose the right theme for content
- **Best practices**: references/best-practices.md - Quality guidelines for "cool" slides

### Templates & Assets
- **Templates**: assets/template-*.md - Starting points with embedded CSS for each theme (7 themes)
- **Standalone CSS**: assets/theme-*.css - CSS files for reference (already embedded in templates)

### Official External Links
- **Marp Official Site**: https://marp.app/
- **Marpit Directives**: https://marpit.marp.app/directives
- **Marpit Image Syntax**: https://marpit.marp.app/image-syntax
- **Marpit Theme CSS**: https://marpit.marp.app/theme-css
- **Marp Core GitHub**: https://github.com/marp-team/marp-core
- **Marp CLI GitHub**: https://github.com/marp-team/marp-cli