• Normal topic view mode: Headings and text is shown in the usual TWiki rendering, representing the outline of the slideshow. This mode is useful to print handouts.
• Presentation mode: Each heading with text is shown as a slide; the format is based on a slide template. Navigation buttons are added to go to the "First", "Previous", and "Next" slide. Slide navigation is quick because it is done with anchor jumps to the same page.

How to Create a Slideshow

• Start with %SLIDESHOWSTART%
  • Use the optional template parameter to specify your own slide template topic, e.g. %SLIDESHOWSTART{ template="MyOwnSlideTemplate" }%
• Create the slides. Start each slide with a "---++" heading and add text like paragraphs, bullets, tables and images.
  • Hint: Make sure to keep each slide short enough so that you do not need to scroll to see all text of a slide during the presentation.
  • Note: You can use any heading level you like, but use the same for all slides.
• End your slideshow with %SLIDESHOWEND%

• Use an HTML table that defines a slide. For example, create one row for the slide title, another one for the slide text.
• These keywords can be used:

  Keyword	What it means
  %SLIDETITLE%	The heading of the slide
  %SLIDETEXT%	The text of the slide
  %SLIDECOMMENT%	The comment of the slide (optional; appended to slide of missing)
  %SLIDENUM%	The current slide number
  %SLIDEMAX%	The last slide number
  %SLIDENAV%	The navigation buttons for "First", "Previous", "Next" slide
  %SLIDENAVALL%	The navigation buttons for "First", "Previous", "Next", "Last" slide
  %SLIDENAVFIRST%	The navigation button for "First slide"
  %SLIDENAVPREV%	The navigation button for "Previous slide"
  %SLIDENAVNEXT%	The navigation button for "Next slide"
  %SLIDENAVLAST%	The navigation button for "Last slide"

• Only text between %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% is used for the template.

Silly Sample Slideshow

• Silly Introduction
• Silly Feature
• Silly Conclusion

• why foo bar
• blah blah

• This text is not shown in the slide if HIDECOMMENTS is set to on.

• it's foo bar
• more foo bar

• foo is bar
• bar is foo

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

• Default template for slides:
  • Set TEMPLATE = SlideShowPlugin

• Hide text starting with a ---+++ Comments heading:
  • Set HIDECOMMENTS = on

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin Home (see below)
• Unzip SlideShowPlugin.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:
  data/TWiki/SlideShowPlugin.txt	Plugin topic
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/SlideShowPlugin.pm	Plugin Perl module
  lib/TWiki/Plugins/SlideShowPlugin/SlideShow.pm	Plugin Perl module
  pub/TWiki/*.gif	Various button image files

• TWiki 4.0 and up: Run the configure script, and enable the plugin in the {Plugins} section.
• Test above example if the installation was successful.