Going Further

Why Slight?

We needed a very small tool to host and edit our slideshows. We wanted both the simplicity of an tiny online editor and the full power of hand-made HTML and CSS. We were very appealed by the possibility to reuse different themes for our slideshows, to store and version our presentations, but not to mix everything.

That’s why we created Slight.

A small piece of software made with Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS. No more than 200 lines of each. Of course, to achieve this, Slight uses incredible libraries such as reveal.js, Flask and WeasyPrint.

Content Structure

Slideshows

Each slideshow is stored in a folder whose is the name of the slideshow. The folder contains at least 2 files.

meta.html contains metadata, such as the theme and the title of the slideshow. You can also add some HTML tags to this file (other metadata, but also JavaScript and CSS), they will be included in the header.

slides.html contains the slides, each slide being section tag. You can also edit this file using your favorite editor, as long as this file remains only a list of section elements.

You can also add a static folder where you can store extra static files, including images. These files can be accessed using the relative static/file.ext URL in your HTML files.

These slideshows can easily be versioned. You can also store them in multiple repositories and list them all in one unique Slight session using multiple -s options.

Themes

Each theme is stored in a folder whose name is the name of the theme. The folder contains a style.css file including the stylesheet. You can also include other static files such as images, and reference them in the stylesheet using their filenames as URL.

As slideshows, themes can be easily versioned. And as slideshows, you can store them in multiple repositories and use multiple -t options.