RemarkJS for Quarto

[royfrancis]

Description

I switched from R package xaringan for slides to quarto slides a few years back. After 3 years, I still prefer the visual look of xaringan (remark.js) for presentations. To demonstrate, have a look at these two presentations with similar content from 2023 around the time I switched to Quarto.

• Xaringan RemarkJS Slides
• Quarto RevealJS Slides

Resize the browser and inspect wide screen and narrow screens. Notice how stable and predictable the RemarkJS slide is in contrast to RevealJS which is a mess! RemarkJS behaves how a slide should be. Like a PDF that is fixed and non-responsive.

So, my question is whether it's possible to support a new quarto format remarkjs?

[mcanouil]

Not sure it solves your issue, but have you tried letterbox from Emil?

[royfrancis]

Excellent! 🎉 This is exactly what I was looking for! This was one of my thoughts as well if I could just CSS style revealjs to behave like remarkjs! Awesome!

[mcanouil]

Always a good idea to search on my listing 😉

https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-extensions/?q=xaringan

[cscheid]

So, my question is whether it's possible to support a new quarto format remarkjs?

We don't presently have the resources to support an additional format, unfortunately. But you could write a custom format yourself and, to the extent that Quarto fails to support that custom format, those are opportunities for us to improve its extension system in the correct direction.