Slide header at bottom of page?

[Christopher Barker]

Hi folks,

I'm just trying out Hieroglyph for the first time. It seems to be just what I'm looking for -- a nice way to create slides that doesn't make me write HTML. And I need to keep fresh with RST and Sphinx anyway. Nice work.

But even with the first "getting started" example, I'm getting odd results -- the header for each new slide is near the bottom of the page, rather than the top -- and on top of the slide content.

Looks like a CSS glitch or something but I really don't know CSS, so here I am.

Anyone else have this problem?

(tried with the latest release version, and git master head)

Thanks for any ideas,

  -Chris

[Nathan Yergler]

Hi Chris,

I suspect that if you look in your conf.py file, you'll see that
slide_theme is set to "slides". Something like:

slide_theme = 'slides'

That theme provide "section break" slides, which position the title
near the lower left of the slide. I used them in the original deck I
created using Hieroglyph to delineate sections of the talk. Is that
what you're seeing?

I suspect if you change the theme to 'single-level' you'll see
something closer to what you expect.

This isn't the first time this has come up; I've left an issue[1] open
as a reminder to myself that something should be done about it to
explain how the themes differ. I'm currently working on incorporating
the updated slide template/JS/CSS [2], which will help alleviate some
of this confusion: it has a richer set of CSS classes that can be
applied to slides to change the layouts, as needed. I suspect we'll
make the new, more flexible theme the default in Hieroglyph 0.7.

Let me know if that doesn't resolve the issue.

Cheers,

NRY

[1] https://github.com/nyergler/hieroglyph/issues/35
[2] https://github.com/nyergler/hieroglyph/issues/48

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[Christopher Barker]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nathan Yergler <nat...@yergler.net> wrote:

I suspect that if you look in your conf.py file, you'll see that
slide_theme is set to "slides". Something like:

slide_theme = 'slides'

indeed it is -- that was the default with the auto-setup, and I didn't know what the other option was.

 

That theme provide "section break" slides, which position the title
near the lower left of the slide. I used them in the original deck I
created using Hieroglyph to delineate sections of the talk. Is that
what you're seeing?

yup, though I tried setting another level of header, and that was better, but didn't seem to put a title on the "regular" slides. But single-level is what I need now, so I'm using that.

The title ends up off the top of the page if I don't have the browser in full-screen mode, but that's OK. 

This isn't the first time this has come up; I've left an issue[1] open
as a reminder to myself that something should be done about it to
explain how the themes differ.

Perhaps a change in the default would be good -- at this point, the default is "slides", but that doesn't work well with your tutorial example...

I'm currently working on incorporating
the updated slide template/JS/CSS [2], which will help alleviate some
of this confusion: it has a richer set of CSS classes that can be
applied to slides to change the layouts, as needed. I suspect we'll
make the new, more flexible theme the default in Hieroglyph 0.7.

I'm looking forward to it!

Thanks,

  - this seems to be working for teh project at hand.

(Python class, by the way)

-Chris

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[Nathan Yergler]

Christopher Barker <pyth...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Nathan Yergler <nat...@yergler.net> wrote:
>
>> I suspect that if you look in your conf.py file, you'll see that
>> slide_theme is set to "slides". Something like:
>>
>> slide_theme = 'slides'
>>
>> indeed it is -- that was the default with the auto-setup, and I didn't
> know what the other option was.
>

That's great feedback to hear. My suspicion is that the quickstart
script shouldn't even ask which you want, since new users won't have
enough information to make the decision. Defaulting to a more general
theme is probably the way to go.

Glad to hear that Hieroglyph is working out for your project. Please let
me/us know if you run into any other hurdles.

Cheers,

NRY