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Marc Kupietzfbf254d2023-10-09 15:10:42 +02002title: "R Markdown Format for reveal.js Presentations – Extended by an IDS Mannheim CD Theme"
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +02003output: github_document
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -05004---
5
christophe dervieux42886a12021-09-16 11:36:01 +02006<!-- badges: start -->
7[![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/revealjs)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=revealjs)
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11
Marc Kupietzfbf254d2023-10-09 15:10:42 +020012## Screenshots
13
Marc Kupietz59e95a62026-08-29 10:19:05 +030014Generated from [examples/ids.Rmd](./examples/ids.Rmd), see live demo [here](http://10.0.1.45/slides/2023-10-08-Revealjs-demo/ids.html). A small starting-point deck is [examples/minimal.Rmd](./examples/minimal.Rmd).
Marc Kupietz2aa80632023-10-09 23:19:46 +020015
Marc Kupietzfbf254d2023-10-09 15:10:42 +020016![title](https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/ids/revealjs/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/target/title.png?job=build-job)
17
18![users](https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/ids/revealjs/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/target/users.png?job=build-job)
Marc Kupietz4cd43b12026-08-28 14:41:51 +030019![collocates](https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/ids/revealjs/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/target/ca.png?job=build-job)
Marc Kupietzfbf254d2023-10-09 15:10:42 +020020
21![references](https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/ids/revealjs/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/target/references.png?job=build-job)
22
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050023## Overview
24
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +020025This repository provides an [R Markdown](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com) custom format for [reveal.js](https://revealjs.com/) HTML presentations. The packages includes _reveal.js_ library in version `r revealjs.ids:::revealjs_version()`
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050026
27You can use this format in R Markdown documents by installing this package as follows:
28
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020029``` r
Marc Kupietze45ed912026-05-04 19:45:29 +020030remotes::install_git("https://korap.ids-mannheim.de/gerrit/IDS-Mannheim/revealjs")
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050031```
32
Marc Kupietz569b9022026-08-28 07:29:16 +030033> **Package renamed — migration note:** This package, the IDS corporate design fork of [rstudio/revealjs](https://github.com/rstudio/revealjs), was called `revealjs` before version 0.9.1.9009 and was renamed to `revealjs.ids` so that it can be installed alongside the upstream package. To migrate existing documents, replace `revealjs::revealjs_presentation` with `revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation` in the YAML header. (Alternatively, install upstream `revealjs` and keep the old header for documents that should use the upstream format.)
34
Atsushi Yasumotoe734cd82020-08-10 21:48:18 +090035To create a [reveal.js](https://revealjs.com/) presentation from R Markdown you specify the `revealjs_presentation` output format in the front-matter of your document. You can create a slide show broken up into sections by using the `#` and `##` heading tags (you can also create a new slide without a header using a horizontal rule (`----`). For example here's a simple slide show:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050036
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020037``` markdown
38---
39title: "Habits"
40author: John Doe
41date: March 22, 2005
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +020042output: revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020043---
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050044
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020045# In the morning
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050046
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020047## Getting up
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050048
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020049- Turn off alarm
50- Get out of bed
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050051
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020052## Breakfast
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050053
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020054- Eat eggs
55- Drink coffee
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050056
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020057# In the evening
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050058
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020059## Dinner
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050060
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020061- Eat spaghetti
62- Drink wine
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050063
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020064## Going to sleep
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050065
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020066- Get in bed
67- Count sheep
68```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -050069
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020070## Rendering
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040071
Daniel Chen81a14342016-03-21 18:00:56 -040072Depending on your use case, there are 3 ways you can render the presentation.
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040073
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200741. RStudio
752. R console
763. Terminal (e.g., bash)
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040077
78### RStudio
79
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020080When creating the presentation in RStudio, there will be a `Knit` button right below the source tabs. By default, it will render the current document and place the rendered `HTML` file in the same directory as the source file, with the same name.
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040081
82### R Console
83
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020084The `Knit` button is actually calling the `rmarkdown::render()` function. So, to render the document within the R console:
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040085
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020086``` r
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040087rmarkdown::render('my_reveal_presentation.Rmd')
88```
89
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020090There are many other output tweaks you can use by directly calling `render`. You can read up on the [documentation](https://pkgs.rstudio.com/rmarkdown/reference/render.html) for more details.
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040091
92### Command Line
93
94When you need the presentation to be rendered from the command line:
95
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +020096``` bash
Daniel Chen46087c32016-03-21 17:58:14 -040097Rscript -e "rmarkdown::render('my_reveal_presentation.Rmd')"
98```
99
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500100## Display Modes
101
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200102The following single character keyboard shortcuts enable alternate display modes:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500103
104- `'f'` enable fullscreen mode
105
106- `'o'` enable overview mode
107
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200108- `'b'` enable pause mode with a black screen hiding slide content
109
110- `'?'` enable help mode to show keyboard shortcut cheatsheet
111
112- `'s'` enable presentation mode with speaker notes when the Notes plugin is activated
113
Marc Kupietz010db0b2026-08-26 09:56:45 +0300114On mobile browsers (touch devices), a speech-bubble button next to the fullscreen button overlays the current slide with its speaker notes -- useful for practicing a talk on a phone or tablet, where the separate speaker view window of the `'s'` shortcut is awkward. The overlay shows the slide title, its planned time (if annotated with a timing comment), and the notes, and follows along as you change slides. It appears only if the deck contains notes at all. Next to it, a list button opens the transcript view (same as pressing `r`), so the whole talk including notes can be read (aloud) on mobile devices, too.
Marc Kupietz88799182026-08-24 09:22:33 +0300115
Marc Kupietzeaaa2b42026-08-26 09:41:27 +0300116- `'r'` toggle the transcript view: a single scrollable page containing every slide's content and speaker notes, so text-to-speech ("read aloud") browser extensions can read the whole presentation -- they cannot walk a reveal.js deck themselves, since hidden slides are not part of the visible page text
117
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200118- `'m'` enable menu mode when the 'menu' plugin is activated
119
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500120Pressing `Esc` exits all of these modes.
121
Marc Kupietzb066e742026-08-23 09:57:06 +0300122## Slide Timing
123
124You can plan the time budget of a talk by adding timing comments to your slides: a comment with an optional speaker code and the expected duration (`MM:SS`, `HH:MM:SS`, or plain seconds), ported from the old Google-Docs-based slide workflow:
125
126``` markdown
127## My slide title
128
129Some content
130
131<!-- JD 00:30 -->
132```
133
Marc Kupietz6b65c032026-08-25 09:43:28 +0300134This means John Doe will need 30 seconds for that slide. For talks presented by a single speaker, the speaker code can be omitted: Comments placed before the first heading are applied to the title slide, so you can give the title itself a time budget and a welcome note:
Marc Kupietzb066e742026-08-23 09:57:06 +0300135
136``` markdown
137## My slide title
138
139Some content
140
141<!-- 00:30 -->
142```
143
144Typically you start from a known total time budget and adjust the individual slides to it. You can set this budget yourself with the `totalTime` option (in seconds):
145
146``` yaml
147output:
148 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
149 reveal_options:
150 totalTime: 3600 # one hour
151```
152
153When rendering, the comments are converted into [`data-timing` attributes](https://revealjs.com/speaker-view/) on the slides, and the calculated grand total is passed to reveal.js as the `totalTime` config value (unless you set `totalTime` yourself). This activates the pacing timer in the [speaker view](https://revealjs.com/speaker-view/) (press `s`), showing how you are doing relative to your plan. Several speakers per slide are supported, and a summary with the total time per speaker is printed:
154
155```
156Slide timing -- JD: 0:30, AB: 1:00 -- total 1:30
157```
158
159To compute the time budget without rendering the presentation, you can call `slide_timing()` directly on the `.Rmd` source file.
160
Marc Kupietz4fc867c2026-08-25 10:30:18 +0300161## Overview Slides
162
Marc Kupietzde3ffa42026-08-30 13:47:57 +0300163Like in the old Google-Docs-based slide workflow, a slide titled "Overview" or "Überblick" is automatically turned into a table of contents: its body content is replaced with an ordered list of all `#` chapter headings, whose enumeration repeats the chapter numbers, and each entry links to the corresponding slide.
Marc Kupietz4fc867c2026-08-25 10:30:18 +0300164
165``` markdown
166## Overview
167
168(any placeholder content -- replaced automatically)
169```
170
Marc Kupietz4eb03202026-08-25 10:58:10 +0300171To also include the `##` sub-headings below their chapters, add `{data-overview-subheadings=true}` to the heading; the list is then laid out in two columns. References and appendix chapters (References/Literatur/Literaturverzeichnis/Appendix/Anhang) are left out, together with their sub-slides.
Marc Kupietz24057e52026-08-25 10:51:06 +0300172
173``` markdown
174## Overview {data-overview-subheadings=true}
175```
176
Marc Kupietz4fc867c2026-08-25 10:30:18 +0300177The TOC is generated when the presentation is opened, so it always reflects the deck it is part of. Slides without a heading and the title slide are left out.
178
Marc Kupietzde3ffa42026-08-30 13:47:57 +0300179## Chapter Numbering
180
181Like in the old Google-Docs-based slide workflow, `#` chapter headings are numbered automatically when the presentation is opened: the first chapter becomes "1. Introduction", the second "2. Methods", and so on. References, appendix and thank-you chapters (References/Literatur/Referenzen/Publikationen/Herausgeberschaften/Appendix/Anhang, and headings containing "Thank you"/"Vielen Dank") keep their bare titles and are not counted. Manually typed leading numbers (`# 2. Methods`) are stripped before renumbering, so the numbering also comes out right in decks migrated from the old pipeline. Since the numbers are added to the headings themselves, they show up everywhere the headings do: the menu plugin and the transcript view, and on the overview slide they become the enumeration of the table of contents.
182
183Decks with `slide_level: 1` (one `#` heading per slide) are left unnumbered -- there, headings denote slides, not chapters.
184
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500185## Incremental Bullets
186
187You can render bullets incrementally by adding the `incremental` option:
188
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200189``` yaml
190---
191output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200192 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200193 incremental: true
194---
195```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500196
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200197If you want to render bullets incrementally for some slides but not others you can use this syntax:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500198
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200199``` markdown
200::: incremental
201
202- Eat spaghetti
203- Drink wine
204
205:::
206```
207
208or
209
210``` markdown
211::: nonincremental
212
213- Eat spaghetti
214- Drink wine
215
216:::
217```
218
219## Incremental Revealing
220
221You can also add pauses between content on a slide using `. . .`
222
223``` markdown
224# Slide header
225
226Content shown first
227
228. . .
229
230Content shown next on the same slide
231```
232
233Using Fragments explicitly is also possible
234
235``` markdown
236# Slide header
237
238Content shown first
239
240::: fragment
241Content shown next on the same slide
242:::
243```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500244
245## Appearance and Style
246
247There are several options that control the appearance of revealjs presentations:
248
Marc Kupietz9fdf0f72026-08-28 07:04:25 +0300249- `theme` specifies the visual theme for the presentation. The dedicated IDS corporate design theme (`"ids"`) is the default and the only supported theme.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500250
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200251- `highlight` specifies the syntax highlighting style. Supported styles include `r knitr::combine_words(rmarkdown:::highlighters(), before = '"', and = " or ")`. Pass null to prevent syntax highlighting.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500252
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200253- `center` specifies whether you want to vertically center content on slides (this defaults to false).
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500254
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500255For example:
256
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200257``` yaml
258output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200259 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200260 highlight: pygments
261 center: true
262```
263
Marc Kupietz59e95a62026-08-29 10:19:05 +0300264## Title Slide: QR Code and Logos
265
266Three optional yaml entries brand the title slide for external audiences:
267
268``` yaml
269title: "Habits"
Marc Kupietzb2cc5232026-08-29 16:21:52 +0300270website: "https://gitlab.ids-mannheim.de/ids/revealjs"
Marc Kupietz59e95a62026-08-29 10:19:05 +0300271partner_logo: "dnb-logo.svg"
272funder_logo: "textplus-logo.svg"
273output: revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation
274```
275
276- `website` places a linked QR code (pointing to the URL) in the top left of the title slide. Requires the `qrcode` package.
277
278- `partner_logo`, a path or URL to a second institution's logo, shows it next to the IDS logo in the top right of *every* slide -- for presentations given by authors from two institutions.
279
280- `funder_logo`, a path or URL to a funder logo, shows it in the bottom left of the title slide, opposite the Leibniz Gemeinschaft membership logo. It is lifted above the footer band on print (pdf) pages.
281
282Local logo files (svg, png, jpg, gif, webp) are embedded in the html as data URIs, so they do not need to be shipped with the presentation; http(s) URLs are used as-is. A linked QR code at any other place on a slide can be produced with `revealjs.ids::qrlink("https://...")` in inline R code. On the title slide the navigation chrome (arrows, slide number, menu button) is hidden, for a bare first impression.
283
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500284## Slide Transitions
285
Jon Caldera35857d2017-04-11 16:38:58 +0200286You can use the `transition` and `background_transition` options to specify the global default slide transition style:
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500287
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200288- `transition` specifies the visual effect when moving between slides. Available transitions are `r (trans <- knitr::combine_words(setdiff(revealjs.ids:::revealjs_transitions(), "default"), before = '"', and = " or "))`.
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500289
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200290- `background_transition` specifies the background transition effect when moving between full page slides. Available transitions are `r trans`
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500291
292For example:
293
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200294``` yaml
295output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200296 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200297 transition: fade
298 background_transition: slide
299```
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500300
301You can override the global transition for a specific slide by using the data-transition attribute, for example:
302
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200303``` markdown
304## Use a zoom transition {data-transition="zoom"}
305
306## Use a faster speed {data-transition-speed="fast"}
307```
308
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500309You can also use different in and out transitions for the same slide, for example:
310
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200311``` markdown
312## Fade in, Slide out {data-transition="slide-in fade-out"}
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500313
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200314## Slide in, Fade out {data-transition="fade-in slide-out"}
315```
316
317This works also for background transition
318
319``` markdown
320## Use a zoomed background transition {data-background-transition="zoom"}
321```
322
323[Revealjs documentation about transitions](https://revealjs.com/transitions/)
JJ Allaire41921d32016-01-30 19:11:43 -0500324
JJ Allaire8382c3e2016-01-30 19:04:31 -0500325## Slide Backgrounds
326
327Slides are contained within a limited portion of the screen by default to allow them to fit any display and scale uniformly. You can apply full page backgrounds outside of the slide area by adding a data-background attribute to your slide header element. Four different types of backgrounds are supported: color, image, video and iframe. Below are a few examples.
328
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200329``` markdown
330## CSS color background {data-background-color=#ff0000}
331
332## Full size image background {data-background-image="background.jpeg"}
333
334## Video background {data-background-video="background.mp4"}
335
336## Embed a web page as a background {data-background-iframe="https://example.com"}
337```
338
339Backgrounds transition using a fade animation by default. This can be changed to a linear sliding transition by specifying the `background-transition: slide`. Alternatively you can set `data-background-transition` on any slide with a background to override that specific transition.
340
341[Revealjs documentation about backgrounds](https://revealjs.com/backgrounds/)
JJ Allaire8382c3e2016-01-30 19:04:31 -0500342
Jon Caldera35857d2017-04-11 16:38:58 +0200343## 2-D Presentations
JJ Allairede1ed652016-01-30 19:41:18 -0500344
345You can use the `slide_level` option to specify which level of heading will be used to denote individual slides. If `slide_level` is 2 (the default), a two-dimensional layout will be produced, with level 1 headers building horizontally and level 2 headers building vertically. For example:
346
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200347``` markdown
348# Horizontal Slide 1
JJ Allairede1ed652016-01-30 19:41:18 -0500349
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200350## Vertical Slide 1
JJ Allairede1ed652016-01-30 19:41:18 -0500351
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200352## Vertical Slide 2
JJ Allairede1ed652016-01-30 19:41:18 -0500353
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200354# Horizontal Slide 2
355```
356
357With this layout horizontal navigation will proceed directly from "Horizontal Slide 1" to "Horizontal Slide 2", with vertical navigation to "Vertical Slide 1", etc. presented as an option on "Horizontal Slide 1". Global reveal option [`navigationMode`](https://revealjs.com/vertical-slides/#navigation-mode) can be tweaked to change this behavior.
JJ Allairede1ed652016-01-30 19:41:18 -0500358
JJ Allaire5f514242016-07-12 10:28:23 -0400359## Reveal Options
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500360
JJ Allaire064552c2017-02-10 10:28:41 -0500361Reveal.js has many additional options to configure it's behavior. You can specify any of these options using `reveal_options`, for example:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500362
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200363``` yaml
364---
365title: "Habits"
366output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200367 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200368 self_contained: false
369 reveal_options:
370 slideNumber: true
371 previewLinks: true
372---
373```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500374
Darren Tsaic2969582022-03-11 22:33:33 +0800375You can find documentation on the various available Reveal.js options here: <https://revealjs.com/config/>.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500376
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500377## Figure Options
378
379There are a number of options that affect the output of figures within reveal.js presentations:
380
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200381- `fig_width` and `fig_height` can be used to control the default figure width and height (7x5 is used by default)
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500382
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200383- `fig_retina` Specifies the scaling to perform for retina displays (defaults to 2, which currently works for all widely used retina displays). Note that this only takes effect if you are using knitr >= 1.5.21. Set to `null` to prevent retina scaling.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500384
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200385- `fig_caption` controls whether figures are rendered with captions
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500386
387For example:
388
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200389``` yaml
390---
391title: "Habits"
392output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200393 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200394 fig_width: 7
395 fig_height: 6
396 fig_caption: true
397---
398```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500399
Marc Kupietzcf6e9982026-08-15 15:37:40 +0200400## Lightbox
401
402reveal.js 5.2 added a [lightbox](https://revealjs.com/lightbox/): any element on a slide can be turned into a clickable trigger that opens an image or video full-size in a dimmed overlay, without leaving the slide. This is useful for dense figures or tables that should stay readable in the slide layout but be inspectable at full size during a presentation.
403
404Add the corresponding data attribute to an image:
405
406```markdown
407![Figure](plot.png){data-preview-image}
408```
409
410or set it on knitr-generated figures via `out.extra`:
411
412````markdown
413```{r, out.extra='data-preview-image'}
414plot(cars)
415```
416````
417
418Clicking the image on the slide opens it full-size; `Esc` or another click closes the overlay.
419
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500420## MathJax Equations
421
422By default [MathJax](http://www.mathjax.org/) scripts are included in reveal.js presentations for rendering LaTeX and MathML equations. You can use the `mathjax` option to control how MathJax is included:
423
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200424- Specify "default" to use an https URL from the official MathJax CDN.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500425
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200426- Specify "local" to use a local version of MathJax (which is copied into the output directory). Note that when using "local" you also need to set the `self_contained` option to false.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500427
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200428- Specify an alternate URL to load MathJax from another location.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500429
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200430- Specify null to exclude MathJax entirely.
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500431
432For example, to use a local copy of MathJax:
433
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200434``` yaml
435---
436title: "Habits"
437output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200438 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200439 mathjax: local
440 self_contained: false
441---
442```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500443
444To use a self-hosted copy of MathJax:
445
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200446``` yaml
447---
448title: "Habits"
449output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200450 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200451 mathjax: "http://example.com/mathjax/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML"
452---
453```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500454
455To exclude MathJax entirely:
456
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200457``` yaml
458---
459title: "Habits"
460output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200461 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200462 mathjax: null
463---
464```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500465
466## Document Dependencies
467
Jon Caldera35857d2017-04-11 16:38:58 +0200468By default R Markdown produces standalone HTML files with no external dependencies, using data: URIs to incorporate the contents of linked scripts, stylesheets, images, and videos. This means you can share or publish the file just like you share Office documents or PDFs. If you'd rather keep dependencies in external files you can specify `self_contained: false`. For example:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500469
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200470``` yaml
471---
472title: "Habits"
473output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200474 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200475 self_contained: false
476---
477```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500478
479Note that even for self contained documents MathJax is still loaded externally (this is necessary because of it's size). If you want to serve MathJax locally then you should specify `mathjax: local` and `self_contained: false`.
480
481One common reason keep dependencies external is for serving R Markdown documents from a website (external dependencies can be cached separately by browsers leading to faster page load times). In the case of serving multiple R Markdown documents you may also want to consolidate dependent library files (e.g. Bootstrap, MathJax, etc.) into a single directory shared by multiple documents. You can use the `lib_dir` option to do this, for example:
482
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200483``` yaml
484---
485title: "Habits"
486output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200487 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200488 self_contained: false
489 lib_dir: libs
490---
491```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500492
JJ Allaire5f514242016-07-12 10:28:23 -0400493## Reveal Plugins
JJ Allaire82a8dee2016-07-12 10:25:36 -0400494
495You can enable various reveal.js plugins using the `reveal_plugins` option. Plugins currently supported include:
496
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200497| Plugin | Description |
498|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
499| [notes](https://revealjs.com/speaker-view/) | Present per-slide notes in a separate browser window. Open Note view pressing `S`. |
500| [zoom](http://lab.hakim.se/zoom-js/) | Zoom in and out of selected content with `Alt+Click.` |
501| [search](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/blob/master/plugin/search/search.js) | Find a text string anywhere in the slides and show the next occurrence to the user. Open search box using `CTRL + SHIFT + F`. |
502| [chalkboard](https://github.com/rajgoel/reveal.js-plugins/tree/master/chalkboard) | Include handwritten notes within a presentation. Press `c` to write on slides, Press `b` to open a whiteboard or chalkboard to write. |
503| [menu](https://github.com/denehyg/reveal.js-menu) | Include a navigation menu within a presentation. Press `m` to open the menu. |
JJ Allaire82a8dee2016-07-12 10:25:36 -0400504
Marc Kupietzb9a8cba2026-08-28 06:51:28 +0300505The plugins `notes`, `search`, `menu`, and `zoom` are activated by default; only `chalkboard` is opt-in. Setting `reveal_plugins` yourself replaces the default set, so to add `chalkboard` while keeping the defaults, list them all explicitly. Set `reveal_plugins: null` to render without any plugins.
506
507Note that the use of plugins requires that the `self_contained` option be set to false. For example, this presentation uses only the "notes" and "search" plugins (dropping "menu" and "zoom" from the default set):
JJ Allaire82a8dee2016-07-12 10:25:36 -0400508
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200509``` yaml
510---
511title: "Habits"
512output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200513 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200514 self_contained: false
515 reveal_plugins: ["notes", "search"]
516---
517```
JJ Allaire82a8dee2016-07-12 10:25:36 -0400518
JJ Allaire064552c2017-02-10 10:28:41 -0500519You can specify additional options for the `chalkboard` and `menu` plugins using `reveal_options`, for example:
JJ Allaire375805c2016-11-15 08:56:43 -0500520
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200521``` yaml
522---
523title: "Habits"
524output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200525 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200526 self_contained: false
527 reveal_plugins: ["chalkboard", "menu"]
528 reveal_options:
529 chalkboard:
530 theme: whiteboard
531 toggleNotesButton: false
532 menu:
533 side: right
534---
535```
JJ Allaire375805c2016-11-15 08:56:43 -0500536
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200537No other plugins can be added in `revealjs_presentation()`. You can open feature request for new plugins or you would need to use a custom template to write your own HTML format including custom plugins.
JJ Allaire375805c2016-11-15 08:56:43 -0500538
Marc Kupietz26096d32026-08-15 15:03:33 +0200539## Bibliography and Appendix Slides
540
Marc Kupietzad0f24b2026-08-23 10:09:05 +0300541When you cite with `[@key]` and set a `bibliography:` in the yaml header, the references are formatted with the bundled IDS citation style by default (based on the style developed for ICLC-10 2023 in Mannheim). To use a different style, specify it as usual with `csl:` in the yaml header.
542
543Pandoc/citeproc generates the reference list **at the very end of the document body**. That is fine when the references are your last content:
Marc Kupietz26096d32026-08-15 15:03:33 +0200544
545```markdown
546# References
547
548## References
549```
550
551If you want slides to follow the references -- typically an appendix with spare slides -- the bibliography would otherwise end up inside your last appendix slide. Place it explicitly with a `::: {#refs}` fenced div, and the appendix forms its own chapter group after the references; navigation and slide numbering keep working:
552
553```markdown
554# References
555
556## References
557
558::: {#refs}
559:::
560
561# Appendix
562
563## Spare slide
564
565- Some backup material
566```
567
568The `{#refs}` placeholder itself does not produce a slide.
569
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500570## Advanced Customization
571
572### Includes
573
574You can do more advanced customization of output by including additional HTML content or by replacing the core pandoc template entirely. To include content in the document header or before/after the document body you use the `includes` option as follows:
575
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200576``` yaml
577---
578title: "Habits"
579output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200580 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200581 includes:
582 in_header: header.html
583 before_body: doc_prefix.html
584 after_body: doc_suffix.html
585---
586```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500587
588### Pandoc Arguments
589
Jon Caldera35857d2017-04-11 16:38:58 +0200590If there are pandoc features you want to use that lack equivalents in the YAML options described above you can still use them by passing custom `pandoc_args`. For example:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500591
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200592``` yaml
593---
594title: "Habits"
595output:
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200596 revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200597 pandoc_args: [
598 "--title-prefix", "Foo",
599 "--id-prefix", "Bar"
600 ]
601---
602```
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500603
Atsushi Yasumotoe734cd82020-08-10 21:48:18 +0900604Documentation on all available pandoc arguments can be found in the [pandoc user guide](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#options).
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500605
606## Shared Options
607
Jon Caldera35857d2017-04-11 16:38:58 +0200608If you want to specify a set of default options to be shared by multiple documents within a directory you can include a file named `_output.yaml` within the directory. Note that no YAML delimiters or enclosing output object are used in this file. For example:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500609
610**\_output.yaml**
611
Christophe Dervieuxe1893ae2021-10-07 17:09:02 +0200612``` yaml
Marc Kupietze195cea2026-08-17 13:17:33 +0200613revealjs.ids::revealjs_presentation:
JJ Allaire5dc9fe02016-01-30 18:44:51 -0500614 transition: fade
615 highlight: pygments
616```
617
618All documents located in the same directory as `_output.yaml` will inherit it's options. Options defined explicitly within documents will override those specified in the shared options file.
Christophe Dervieux7f1add52021-09-15 15:42:07 +0200619
620## Code of Conduct
621
622Please note that the revealjs project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://pkgs.rstudio.com/revealjs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.