Currently this project uses a tailored markdown parsing system to convert a story written in markdown format to the desired storyboard layout. This is rather limited, in the sense that we allow one picture or html iframe as the content of the main panel. If we want to extend this to be more flexible, we might eventually end up creating our own version of reveal.js.
So, instead, it might be interesting to explore whether we can actually reuse reveal.js to power the storyboards. The main content box can be replaced with an actual reveal.js presentation, it should be possible to get a list of all slides (https://revealjs.com/api/#slides) through the API (Reveal.getSlides()), and perhaps we can (ab)use the speaker notes for the annotation panel on the side. If this works, it would immediate make the stories much more powerful.
Currently this project uses a tailored markdown parsing system to convert a story written in markdown format to the desired storyboard layout. This is rather limited, in the sense that we allow one picture or html iframe as the content of the main panel. If we want to extend this to be more flexible, we might eventually end up creating our own version of reveal.js.
So, instead, it might be interesting to explore whether we can actually reuse reveal.js to power the storyboards. The main content box can be replaced with an actual reveal.js presentation, it should be possible to get a list of all slides (https://revealjs.com/api/#slides) through the API (
Reveal.getSlides()
), and perhaps we can (ab)use the speaker notes for the annotation panel on the side. If this works, it would immediate make the stories much more powerful.