Adding time codes/transcripts/audio/sub-slides without Butter

[banksJeremy]

I have a script working to generate a basic slideshow from a document of SVG slides (see my converter branch) , but the resulting presentation has meaningless time codes, the demo audio, no transcript and no sub-slides.

There should be some way to add these without using a hypothetical Butter plugin/template.

Sub-slides may be difficult to specify without an interface*, but the others aren't too bad. A command-line tool could import and export time, transcript and audio information between the HTML presentation and a JSON document; an extension of the time code tool I wrote.

After the user made minor changes to a completed presentation they could export the new slides, copy the transcript/times/audio from a previously-completed one and almost be finished.

I'll probably start working on a patch for this.

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* Well, I have a thought about how sub-slides could be handled but it's messy and inflexible: allow the user to specify sub-slide-elements based on their text, matched in a case- and whitespace-insensitive manner:

{ "time": 50,
  "transcript": "blah blah blah",
  "subslides": [
    {
      "text": "but 95% or more are primarily self-taught",
      "time": 53,
      "transcript": "...reinvent a lot of wheels... "
    }, ...
  ]
}, ...

This seems likely to break more often than specified by slide index.

[banksJeremy]

Sub-slides aren't addressed, but the new SVG importer handles the times and transcripts well.