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Slideshow
When someone drives one screen for a room: the Reposar Method's rules for the slides, and presentation mode, which turns any page into them.
The Reposar Method's rules
The Reposar Method is a presentation design method, kept with its app in the TheReposarMethod repo; the app scores a deck against it, slide by slide. Its color rule is Margin's in one line: black type, gray to push things back, one or two colors to bring things forward.
Words and structure
- Every slide's headline is a full sentence; the headlines alone tell the argument.
- Text is broken for sense, with no lone word on a last line.
- One idea per slide; a diagram is built up over several.
- Sections, a contents slide, and an end with a recommendation and next steps.
Type, color and the page
- One family, two weights, three sizes; lines of about 60 characters.
- Every figure captioned; credits small, gray and at the bottom.
- A page number and a running footer on every slide; no logo on every slide; no background patterns.
Presentation mode
Every page of this guide, and any app page that loads v2/present.js, can be shown as slides: each section one slide, in the slideshow's three type sizes, with the bar at the foot.
- Start: the button beside the light and dark button, Ctrl+Alt+P, or
?mode=presentationin the address (with#slide-3,#lastor a section's id to start there). - Move: the arrow keys, Space, Page Up and Down, Home and End, a sideways swipe, or the arrows in the bar.
- At the end of a page, next goes on to the next page without leaving full screen. Escape or Exit ends it on the page you reached.
A slide that holds more than a screen scrolls. That is a sign the section is too long for a slide, and a real deck would split it.