.. _speaker-notes: Speaker notes ============= Speaker notes can be added to a slide by creating a text box whose first line contains ``###`` (three hashes). The remainder of the textbox contains the speaker notes in markdown_ format. SVG text formatting is ignored. .. _markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown .. image:: _static/speaker_notes_source_screenshot.png :alt: A screenshot of Inkscape with a set of speaker notes. When rendered, the text box containing the speaker notes will be made invisible and so its doesn't *need* to be placed off the edge of the page -- though this is often convenient. At the time of writing, :ref:`only the XHTML output format supports displaying speaker notes `. In other formats, the speaker notes are simply removed. .. image:: _static/speaker_notes_viewer_screenshot.png :alt: A screenshot of the XHTML viewer showing some speaker notes. .. tip:: If you want to create a text box in your slide whose first line is ``###`` without it being interpreted as a speaker note, add a trailing space to the first line. It will not be visible in the resulting document but will prevent Slidie treating it as a speaker note. Per-:ref:`build step ` speaker notes -------------------------------------------- If multiple text boxes containing speaker notes are addded to your document, the notes are concatenated together in the order they appear in the SVG document. This means that the top-most notes on the top-most layers will be shown first. Speaker note text boxes placed on layers with :ref:`build steps ` are treated as only being relevant whilst that layer is visible: these notes are shown dimmed out when the layer they're on is not visible.