reveal: ipython css overrides reveal themes

[jdfreder]

Migrated from https://github.com/ipython/nbconvert/issues/131
Original author @keflavich

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The Reveal themes don't work with ipython notebooks, I think because the notebooks override the theme css. For example:

If I use the night theme:
http://keflavich.github.io/astr2600_notebooks/Lecture23_DataFitting.html?theme=night#/
the background os overridden by a body {background-color:white;} setting. However, if I use sky:
http://keflavich.github.io/astr2600_notebooks/Lecture23_DataFitting.html?theme=sky#/
the background image shows up as expected.

Similarly, the text does not change appropriately.

Is it possible to support reveal themes? Or are there ipython-notebook-compatible reveal themes?

[damianavila]

There some reveal specific themes that will not work by default and they need a little bit of customization at the css level to make them look ok. We can not support all the themes because it would imply touching the reveal.js source code... that we are only using as an external library.

I have detailed an example customization in a blog post here: http://www.damian.oquanta.info/posts/customizing-your-ipython-slides.html

So, I think there is enough info and we can close this one, but we can wait for @keflavich opinion if you want...

[jdfreder]

I think you are right and that it would be out of scope to try to support all of the reveal.js themes. Nice blog post and thanks for the input, I'll go ahead and close this one.

[keflavich]

Thanks, the blog post is helpful, and I guess it makes sense not to support
all of the external themes - it would just be too much work.