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Academic Paper Deck

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Create structured academic presentations effortlessly.

by nexu-io84.9k stars on nexu-io/open-design
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Updated Aug 10, 2026
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What Academic Paper Deck does

The Academic Paper Deck is a specialized tool designed for researchers and academics looking to present their findings in a structured and visually appealing manner. Built on the html-ppt-studio framework, this skill provides a locked, single-theme presentation deck that adheres to strict design principles, ensuring that your slides reflect the professionalism expected in academic settings. The deck is styled to resemble a traditional LaTeX article, featuring a clean layout with a paper-white background and ink-black serif text, which promotes readability and focus on content.

Users can start by utilizing the provided example.html file, which serves as a template for creating new presentations. The deck includes a series of predefined layout masters, such as cover pages, tables of contents, and sections for abstracts and conclusions. Each of these layouts is designed to maintain a consistent aesthetic, which is crucial for academic presentations. The skill emphasizes a disciplined use of typography and color, ensuring that all elements adhere to a specified design token sheet, which includes guidelines for fonts, colors, and spacing.

This skill is particularly useful for principal investigators, lab groups, and reviewers who need to present research findings, grant proposals, or academic reviews. By following the provided authoring checklist, users can easily replace the demo content with their own while maintaining the integrity of the design. The requirement for real citations and numbered figures/tables encourages thoroughness and attention to detail, which are essential in academic work.

Overall, the Academic Paper Deck simplifies the process of creating professional presentations, allowing users to focus on their content rather than the intricacies of design. It is an excellent choice for anyone in the academic field who needs to communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively.

When to use it

Use this skill when you need to create a presentation for academic purposes, such as conferences, grant proposals, or peer reviews.

When not to use it

This skill may not be suitable for more casual presentations or when a highly customized design is required, as it enforces strict design guidelines.

What you can build with it

Conference Presentation

Prepare a professional presentation for an academic conference, ensuring your findings are clearly communicated.

Grant Proposal

Create a structured deck for presenting a grant proposal to funding bodies, highlighting key research contributions.

Peer Review

Develop a comprehensive review deck for sharing with peers during academic evaluations or discussions.

How to install Academic Paper Deck

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add nexu-io/open-design/hps-academic-paper --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI, and the reference implementation of Agent Skills. Drop a skill folder into ~/.claude/skills and Claude Code loads it automatically whenever a task matches the skill's description. Claude Code docs

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Written by nexu-io

Academic Paper(学术论文风)

A locked, single-theme deck plugin in the html-ppt-studio family, ported from the MIT-licensed lewislulu/html-ppt-skill academic-paper theme (assets/themes/academic-paper.css on the upstream templates/deck.html scaffold). The register is a LaTeX article walking on stage: paper-white ground, ink-black serif text, link-blue underlined citations, italic kickers, hairline rules everywhere, zero rounded corners, no shadows. It reads like Computer Modern even when Computer Modern is not installed.

Start from example.html in this plugin folder. It is the proven seed: keep its :root token sheet, base/slide-system CSS, academic device classes, deck chrome and the entire navigation script verbatim, then replace only the slide content. Do not rewrite the design system, and do not introduce any color or font outside this spec.

Design tokens (locked — reproduce verbatim in :root)

:root{
  --bg:#fdfcf8; --bg-soft:#f7f5ed; --surface:#ffffff; --surface-2:#f5f3ea;
  --border:rgba(20,20,20,.14); --border-strong:rgba(20,20,20,.35);
  --text-1:#0a0a0a; --text-2:#333333; --text-3:#707070;
  --accent:#1a3a7a;   /* link blue — citations, "ours" data, best numbers */
  --accent-2:#0a0a0a; /* ink — rules, heavy structure */
  --accent-3:#8a1a1a; /* sparing dark red — errata/negative only */
  --good:#1a5a2a; --warn:#8a6a1a; --bad:#8a1a1a;
  --grad:linear-gradient(135deg,#1a3a7a,#0a0a0a);
  --grad-soft:linear-gradient(135deg,#e8edf8,#f5f3ea);
  --radius:0px; --radius-sm:0px; --radius-lg:0px;
  --shadow:none;
  --shadow-lg:0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.1);
  --font-sans:'Latin Modern Roman','Playfair Display','Noto Serif SC',Georgia,serif;
  --font-serif:'Latin Modern Roman','Playfair Display','Noto Serif SC',Georgia,serif;
  --font-mono:'JetBrains Mono',SFMono-Regular,Menlo,monospace;
  --font-display:'Latin Modern Roman','Playfair Display','Noto Serif SC',Georgia,serif;
  --letter-tight:-.01em; --letter-normal:0;
  --ease:cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1);
}

Hard color discipline: paper white, ink black, link blue, and the three semantic statuses are the entire palette. --accent-3 dark red appears only for errata, negative deltas or "withdrawn/deprecated" marks. Never add gradients beyond the two declared tokens, never round a corner, never cast a shadow stronger than --shadow-lg.

Typography

  • All three display slots are serif. Latin Modern Roman is named first so machines with LaTeX fonts get the real thing; Playfair Display (+ Noto Serif SC for CJK, then Georgia) is the webfont fallback. Google Fonts @import for Playfair Display (incl. italics), Noto Serif SC and JetBrains Mono are the only permitted external references.
  • Headings weight 700, body 400, line-height 1.6. No uppercase headings, no negative tracking beyond --letter-tight:-.01em.
  • .kicker is the theme signature: italic, link blue, sentence case, letter-spacing:0, weight 400 — never uppercase, never bold.
  • Numbers in stats/tables use font-variant-numeric:tabular-nums.

Academic devices (theme-signature components — use them)

classdevice
.rule / .rule-doublehairline rule / LaTeX titlepage double rule (2px over 1px)
.abstractitalic abstract environment between two hairline rules, bold lead word
.cite[n] citation anchor — mono, link blue, underlined
.figure + .figcaptionruled figure box with numbered italic caption (<b>Figure 1:</b> …)
.booktabsthree-line table: 2px top/bottom rules, 1px header rule, no vertical rules; .best bolds winners in link blue
.footnotedagger small print under a hairline rule
.referenceshanging [n] bibliography list, titles in <i>
.toc-listnumbered outline with hairline separators and italic timing column
.section-numoversized ghost numeral (in --surface-2) for section dividers

Every figure and table must carry a numbered caption — that is what makes the deck feel like a paper. Diagrams are ink-line inline SVG (1.5px ink strokes, serif labels, the "ours" box tinted #e8edf8/link blue); charts are pure CSS bars on a heavy ink axis with baselines in muted --surface-2 and exactly one link-blue "ours" bar. No chart libraries, no remote images.

Layout masters (all demonstrated in example.html, 11 pages)

  1. cover — italic venue kicker, double rule, serif title, author line with superscript affiliations, hairline rule, affiliation small print
  2. toc/outline.toc-list numbered contents
  3. section-divider — ghost numeral + ink rule
  4. abstract + contributions.abstract beside a .check list
  5. stat-highlight — one giant tabular number in link blue + .footnote CI
  6. method figure — inline SVG pipeline in .figure with Figure caption
  7. chart-bar — CSS bar chart, muted baselines vs blue "ours", Figure caption
  8. booktabs table — Table caption, .best winners
  9. big-quote — italic serif epigraph with precise attribution
  10. conclusions — two ruled cards (shown / open problems) + artifact link
  11. thanks/references.references bibliography + contact line

Compose decks from these masters; sequence cover → outline → (divider → 2–4 content pages) × N → conclusions → references.

Slide system & runtime (keep verbatim)

  • One self-contained HTML file; inline <style> + <script>; zero build, zero external JS. Each page is <section class="slide" data-title="…"> inside <div class="deck" id="deck"> — a horizontal scroll-snap strip, one 100vw × 100vh screen per slide (16:9 / 1280×720 baseline, fluid via clamp()), padding 72px 96px, no internal scrolling.
  • Fixed chrome: .deck-header (running head: short title · venue, italic), .deck-footer (attribution + N / total counter), 2px .progress-bar in link blue.
  • Keyboard: ←/→/Space/PageUp/PageDown/Home/End; #/N hash deep links via history.replaceState in try/catch (srcdoc-safe). The script's dual capture-phase listeners with Event-identity dedupe, .deck scroll sync and body auto-focus fix real iframe-host bugs — do not simplify them away. This variant is theme-locked: there is no T theme cycling.
  • Speaker notes: one hidden <div class="notes">…</div> per slide.
  • Animations are restrained: at most one anim-rise-in/anim-fade-up hero plus one anim-stagger-list per slide. No 3D, no glitch, no confetti — this is a lecture hall, not a launch party.

Authoring checklist

  1. Copy example.html; keep all <style> blocks and the <script> verbatim.
  2. Replace the 11 demo slides with your content using the masters above.
  3. Real content, real numbers, real (or plausibly fictional) citations — no lorem ipsum; number every Figure/Table caption consecutively.
  4. Keep the running head and footer attribution updated; the script computes the N / total counter automatically.
  5. Write 1–3 sentence speaker notes per slide in .notes.
  6. Verify: arrows + Space navigate, #/5 deep-links, no slide overflows vertically, no color or font outside the token sheet.

Attribution

Theme tokens and the deck scaffold come from the upstream MIT-licensed lewislulu/html-ppt-skill (© lewis <sudolewis@gmail.com>) — theme academic-paper. The LICENSE file ships alongside this skill; keep it in place when redistributing.

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