Slides

Generic slides

The main building block of the Slydekit framework is the slide function, which is used to create individual slides in a presentation.

#let slide(
  title,
  steps: none
  label: none,
  body
)

Practically, a slide can be defined in various ways:

// Markup-based slide + label
== Title <label>

Content of the slide

// Slide function + label
#slide("Title", label: <label>)[
  Content of the slide
]

// Slide function
#slide[
  Content of the slide
]

Custom slides

There are several ways to define custom slides, which can be used to create slides with different layouts and styles. For instance, the focus-slide function used for capturing the audience’s attention is defined as follows in the built-in themes:

// Focus slide of the simple theme
#let simple-focus-slide(body) = context {
  set page(header:none, footer: none, fill: sk-states.colors.get().focus)
  set align(center + horizon)
  text(size: 2em, fill: white)[*#body*]
}

If you want to create your own custom focus slide, that can use animations and other features, you can use the slide function to define it. For example:

#let my-focus-slide(..args) = {
  set align(center + horizon)
  set text(fill: white, size: 5em)
  set page(header: none, footer: none, fill: rgb("#5E8B65"))

  slide(..args)

  // Freeze the slide number to avoid incrementing it for focus slides
  sk-states.slide-number.update(n => n - 1)
}

Then, you can use it in your presentation like this:

#my-focus-slide[
  *Hey* #pause *ho!*
]

Custom Focus slide - Step 1 Custom Focus slide - Step 2

Section numbering

Slydekit supports automatic global numbering of sections and slides. You can customize the numbering pattern and enable or disable section numbering as needed. This behavior is driven by the section-numbering and numbering-pattern arguments of the slydekit function (see Getting Started for details).

slide-subtitle and formatted-number are two helper functions provided by SlydeKit for implementing slide title numbering. The slide-subtitle function generates a slide’s subtitle, including its section and subsection numbers, while formatted-number formats these numbers according to a specified pattern. Both functions are intended for use when creating custom slide templates, ensuring consistent numbering throughout the presentation.

Slide subtitle

The function slide-subtitle is used to generate the subtitle of a slide, which includes the section number and the subsection number.

slide-subtitle(fill-number: none)

Formatted number

The formatted-number function is used to format the title of the sections and subsections numbers according to the specified pattern.

formatted-number(
  at: none,
  force: false,
  level: none,
)