duke-nus-marp

Duke-NUS Marp slides

Produce editable Markdown with the bundled Duke-NUS CSS, source-grounded Harvard citations, and checked renders. User-specified content, slide count, location, and citation variants take precedence over defaults.

Assets and scope

• assets/duke-nus.css: 1280 × 720 theme, Arial, blue #00539B, orange #F5821F, gray #4D4F53, online logo at https://i.imgur.com/hh3DOb2.png. Preserve this URL unless the user requests a change.
• assets/starter.md: minimal deck including Harvard references.
• assets/example.md: layout examples with explicitly fictional citation placeholders.
• references/marp-guide.md: read before authoring for syntax, class behavior, Harvard conventions, and export options.

The theme is a personal adaptation of the user's Duke-NUS PowerPoint, not an official template release. Use the bundled assets; no original machine-specific folder is required.

Work in the requested output directory. Read applicable local instructions, especially inside the Obsidian vault. Copy assets to the project before editing; do not modify the installed skill as part of making a deck. When an existing project has a customized theme or configuration, inspect and preserve it unless the user asks for replacement. Do not update vault indexes merely because slide sources live inside the vault.

Authoring decisions

1. Inspect the supplied content and identify audience, purpose, and supported conclusions. Use reasonable assumptions for routine layout choices. Ask only for missing information that materially changes the talk.
2. Select the needed layouts from the example, then replace the examples with the actual content. Do not force every deck to include every layout. Honor the requested slide count, including references and cover unless the user specifies otherwise.
3. Keep one main point per slide. Preserve units, uncertainty, qualifiers, and attribution. Leave clear placeholders for missing data rather than inventing findings or sources.
4. Use # for the masthead title and an immediately following ## for its optional subtitle. Both should fit one line on ordinary content slides. Use ### for body headings.
5. Use local directives <!-- _class: ... --> to avoid leaking layout changes to later slides. Supported classes are title, section, closing, figure, compact, references, and center. Use _paginate: skip on covers/closing slides when excluding them from the count.
6. Use plain Markdown for routine content. The optional columns / wide-left divs need blank lines around their Markdown contents and HTML rendering enabled. In the figure layout, the last paragraph is the caption. Contain scientific figures without cropping evidence.