title: markdown or markup to powerpoint?
body: <p>I need to maintain some slides in both latex beamer and in powerpoint.  (This is to make slides available for instructors elsewhere, too, 90% of which do not know how to use latex and are unwilling to learn it.  and I am a latex guy on linux.)</p>
  
  <p>I have tried the route via Libreoffice (and opendocument), but this did not come out well.  right now, the best method that I have found is to author pdf in beamer, then run it through a nuance OCR program to get MS Word...and not even go all the way to Powerpoint (which is where I really need to be).</p>
  
  <p>If I only had a markup language that produced nice Powerpoint, I could probably code a perl translator from markdown to this intermediate markup language.  (going from markdown to latex beamer is relatively easy.)</p>
  
  <p>I don't think this exists, but hope springs eternal.  after all, it is almost 2014 now.  does anyone know of a solution?</p>