Speaker notes

Slope can open a second window acting as a teleprompter that shows your notes for the slides currently on screen. Keep it on your laptop while the presentation is projected on the main screen.

Writing a script

Notes live in a plain text file split into tagged blocks. A line of the form [tag] starts a block, and every following line until the next tag is the note for that tag:

notes.txt

[intro]
Welcome everyone. Today we talk about bunnies.
Take it slow here.

[results]
Insist on the convergence plot.

Linking notes to slides

Register the file once, then wrap the slides that share a note between a tag and ClosePromptTag:

    show.setScriptFile("notes.txt"); // path relative to the project folder

    show << promptTag("intro");
    show << Title("Welcome")->at(CENTER);
    show << newFrame; /* ... */
    show << promptTag("results");
    show << newFrame; /* ... */

As you move through the slideshow, the prompter window automatically displays the note attached to the current slide's tag.