Re: HTML presentations using org-html-slideshow?

["Julian M. Burgos" <julian.burgos@hafogvatn.is>]

Thanks for the head up.  I will check it out.

Peter Salazar writes:

> If anyone's interested, there's a new working version of
> org-html-slideshow that's compatible with org-mode 9.x available here:
> https://github.com/aiba/org-html-slideshow.
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Peter Salazar <cycleofsong@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've been using the excellent org-html-slideshow (
>> https://github.com/relevance/org-html-slideshow) to generate HTML slides
>> from org-mode, and it's been working well for me for years.
>>
>> It generates HTML slides from org-mode using the org-mode heading
>> hierarchy. Tag any heading with the org-tag :slide: and that heading and
>> its contents automatically become their own slide once you export to HTML
>> using org-export-dispatch.
>>
>> I prefer org-html-slideshow to org-reveal since it allows me the ability
>> to easily customize the look and feel of slides—by creating a custom
>> slide—simply by adding an org-tag. So if I tag an org-heading with the tag
>> :fullscreenslide: for example (so that the heading looks like * Heading
>> :slide:fullscreenslide:), it will then export that slide to HTML with
>> class="fullscreenslide" — and I can then use CSS to customize the look and
>> feel of all slides with that class.
>>
>> Org-html-slideshow also offers a great Presenter View, which opens in a
>> separate tab in your browser, and displays your speaker notes, the current
>> slide, and the next slide. Unfortunately, org-html-slideshow is no longer
>> being actively developed, and a recent update to org-mode has broken the
>> way Presenter View functions. Somehow with the new org-mode updates, the
>> "next slide" view in Presenter Notes mode no longer advances correctly. The
>> "next slide" slide gets stuck in a loop of 4-5 slides, and just repeats
>> those few slides. It does not reliably show you what the next slide is
>> going to be.
>>
>> I notice that the output from example.org when I export to HTML is fairly
>> different from the example.html that's in the repo. Something in those
>> differences is breaking the ability of Presenter Notes to advance to the
>> next slide:
>> https://gist.github.com/incandescentman/dca040c750a3e9e7e687942d69ebd53f
>>
>> Anyone else using org-html-slideshow? Does anyone have any thoughts on how
>> to get this working again? Thanks!
>>


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