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.

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, only the XHTML output format supports displaying speaker notes. In other formats, the speaker notes are simply removed.

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-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 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.