I\'m trying to come up with a good system for generating slides and accompanying handouts. The ideal system would have the following properties:
Not a direct solution, but Yihui's Xaringan package https://github.com/yihui/xaringan/ works for me. It's based on remark.js. In the default template, you can use .pull-left[] and .pull-right[] . Example: https://slides.yihui.name/xaringan/#15. You only need a minimum tweak on the existing .rmd files.