diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'MANUAL.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | MANUAL.txt | 52 |
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt index f81f4c70b..afdd66ddd 100644 --- a/MANUAL.txt +++ b/MANUAL.txt @@ -1182,11 +1182,15 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL: - Title and Content - Section Header - Two Content + - Comparison + - Content with Caption + - Blank For each name, the first layout found with that name will be used. If no layout is found with one of the names, pandoc will output a warning and use the layout with that name from the default reference - doc instead. + doc instead. (How these layouts are used is described in [PowerPoint + layout choice](#powerpoint-layout-choice).) All templates included with a recent version of MS PowerPoint will fit these criteria. (You can click on `Layout` under the @@ -1195,8 +1199,8 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL: You can also modify the default `reference.pptx`: first run `pandoc -o custom-reference.pptx --print-default-data-file reference.pptx`, and then modify `custom-reference.pptx` - in MS PowerPoint (pandoc will use the first four layout - slides, as mentioned above). + in MS PowerPoint (pandoc will use the layouts with the names + listed above). `--epub-cover-image=`*FILE* @@ -5833,6 +5837,48 @@ you use deeper nesting of section levels with reveal.js unless you set `--slide-level=0` (which lets reveal.js produce a one-dimensional layout and only interprets horizontal rules as slide boundaries). +### PowerPoint layout choice + +When creating slides, the pptx writer chooses from a number of pre-defined +layouts, based on the content of the slide: + +Title Slide +: This layout is used for the initial slide, which is generated and + filled from the metadata fields `date`, `author`, and `title`, if + they are present. + +Section Header +: This layout is used for what pandoc calls “title slides”, i.e. + slides which start with a header which is above the slide level in + the hierarchy. + +Two Content +: This layout is used for two-column slides, i.e. slides containing a + div with class `columns` which contains at least two divs with class + `column`. + +Comparison +: This layout is used instead of “Two Content” for any two-column + slides in which at least one column contains text followed by + non-text (e.g. an image or a table). + +Content with Caption +: This layout is used for any non-two-column slides which contain text + followed by non-text (e.g. an image or a table). + +Blank +: This layout is used for any slides which only contain blank content, + e.g. a slide containing only speaker notes, or a slide containing + only a non-breaking space. + +Title and Content +: This layout is used for all slides which do not match the criteria + for another layout. + +These layouts are chosen from the default pptx reference doc included with +pandoc, unless an alternative reference doc is specified using +`--reference-doc`. + ## Incremental lists By default, these writers produce lists that display "all at once." |