Enforce (or not) slide at the first cell about rise HOT 11 CLOSED

I think that the "visibility" of any cell shouldn't be enforced, and the cells should behave as expected i.e. if the user has set a cell (first or not) to be "skipped", it should be skipped (it also means, that if someone has forgotten to mark a cell as "skipped" that he/she intended to skip, should be visible in the slide show). In my mind, this is an expected and deterministic behavior. Else, we have to always remember some "special" use-case/ behavior of some special cells. I really don't think any cell should be given special status by default.

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I think you ideas are valuable... and I think right now I am little incline to change the behaviour into no enforce the first slide. I will keep this one opened for a little bit so people who want to give their thoughts can do it... then we can make the change.

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@damianavila absolutely!! By the way, I wanted to thank you, for creating this. I am very happy that this tool is available, and I hope in the near future, this will evolve, and will be integrated into IPython in a better way. I am going to do my PhD thesis proposal within a month, and I am planning to use this tool.
Regards.

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You are welcome @indranilsinharoy. I hope we can make this better in the future... let's see how far we can go 😉
BTW, very grateful you will use this tool in your proposal 👍

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I would also ask that you not force the first cell to be a slide. I often want to take an existing research notebook and convert it into a slideshow. My first cell is almost always a pile of imports and %matplotlib inline...

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Therefore the first cell should be the title slide.

It's important to put information in a coherent order for the reader.

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On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, jmshea [email protected] wrote:

I would also ask that you not force the first cell to be a slide. I often
want to take an existing research notebook and convert it into a slideshow.
My first cell is almost always a pile of imports and %matplotlib inline...

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The first slide should be a title slide. The imports are set to Skip. Its important to use the capabilities of the slideshow to only show the audience what is needed for the presentation ;-)

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Yes, I think we need to avoid the enforcing... I will update the code base with some fixes this weekend and I will make a new point release. Thanks for the discussion.

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Just to give an update, I still think the same about this, targeting to 3.x compatibility.

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FWIW, I just ran into this and had a WTF moment - I wanted some imports at the top of the notebook so I'd remember to run them before going into presentation mode, but they would be hidden in presentation mode.

Though I can also see that it would be surprising if you went into slide mode and were missing content unexpectedly.

Perhaps automatically make the first cell 'slide' if it doesn't have a slide type set, but if the user sets the slide type to 'skip', assume they mean it.

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Perhaps automatically make the first cell 'slide' if it doesn't have a slide type set, but if the user sets the slide type to 'skip', assume they mean it.

Seems a good compromise...

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