Idea: Slide improvements

[HerHde]

Hey lads, since I'm working quite often with the slide mode I've got some ideas to discuss and propose:

Download compiled slides

Add a Presentation item to the download menu for offline (or wherever) usage, which outputs the compiled slides

• without the footer
• including assets like
  • CSS
  • JS
  • image assets (or whatever you can upload)
• as an archive

Editor: Slide options in the toolbar

Add a slide option button to the editor toolbar, opening a dialog to dis-/enable the type: slide and other options in the front YAML. If enabled, show buttons for individual slides in the toolbar, like uploading a background image, adding a fragment, new slide (--- or ----) etc.

Vertical alignment options

Implement an option to set the vertical alignment of a slide, useful for background images and title slides. Example where it would be useful to align the content: I think this would be a bit too much, since it is possible through HTML & CSS and afaik not part of reveal.js.

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(IMHO one issue for this epic is fine, as long as we don't have implementation plans or lengthy discussions.) So, please share your thoughts on this!

[ccoenen]

Oh I would love that download button! If anyone would like to take a stab at it: You can take a look at our export code, it already does some of these things and could be the basis for such a feature. In particular these two parts pack a zipfile:

https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/5951dd1805d8c74ac1da355baa89343838f38305/lib/web/userRouter.js#L73-L82

https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/5951dd1805d8c74ac1da355baa89343838f38305/lib/web/userRouter.js#L93-L114

The parts in between are "checking if logged in" (which could be skipped) and "list all notes" which does not apply in this case).

[oupala]

In addition to the slide improvement that you're proposing, do you think it would make sense to offer an easy way to style the slides with a custom reveal.js style theme?

It could be a separate file passed as a parameter at startup to complete the default css style.

[ErikMichelson]

This issue has been split up into several other issues.