Now that we have defined a simple presentation containing just 3 slides, we can start creating them. You can either use slides from an existing directory or create a new one: mkdir slides/foo The first slide tends to be a titlepage for the presentation. A simple automatic titlepage generator is included which uses the information in the presentation definition file. Simply copy %titlepage.xml% into your slides directory and as you saw in the presentation definition file the first slide was defined to be %slides/foo/titlepage.xml%. cp slides/titlepage.xml slides/foo Your titlepage should now work.