reveal.js and vertical slides

[ekstroem]

Hi,

I'm trying to get my head around vertical slides when using reveal.js in combination with slidify. I would like the structure of the slides to be

Test Slide	About
Where am I placed?	Look at me

but I cannot get the Where am I placed? slide placed vertically under the first slide. The code I am running is shown below. I generate the html output from within RStudio running knitr.

---
title       : Test
subtitle    : 
author      : Some guy
job         : 
framework   : revealjs      # {io2012, html5slides, shower, dzslides, ...}
highlighter : highlight.js  # {highlight.js, prettify, highlight}
hitheme     : zenburn       # 
widgets     : [mathjax]     # {mathjax, quiz, bootstrap}
mode        : selfcontained # {standalone, draft}
knit        : slidify::knit2slides
revealjs    :
  theme: serif
--- 

## Test slide

***

## Where am I placed?

--- &vertical

## About

***

## Look at me

If I run this code then the Where am I placed? slide disappears. This makes sense since there's no &vertical argument to the separator above it. However, if I change the last bit of the YAML to

knit        : slidify::knit2slides
revealjs    :
  theme: serif
--- &vertical 

then the parsing of the YAML goes haywire. Is this possible without creating a blank first slide?

On a slightly different note: can I set the build-up such that some blocks/slides are build upwards instead of downwards?

[ramnathv]

Having anything other than --- for the first slide is problematic if you are using the rstudio knit to html button, since it uses rstudio's rmarkdown parser. If you run slidify from your R console, it should work, since it will use slidify's yaml parser, which recognizes metadata in the slide separator line.

Let me know if my suggested workaround works. Longer term, I will work on a way to get this fixed by talking to rstudio.

[ekstroem]

Yes running slidifyfrom console works perfectly. Thank you. Have been working entirely within RStudio so far but will just drop that for this particular case. I'll close this since it a problem with RStudio and not really slidify.

[ramnathv]

@ekstroem thanks for confirming that it works. i am reopening this issue so that i have it on my to-do list.