Installing and using "seminar"

[piiskop]

i want to use the seminar plugin with Quarto presentations. So i created a subfolder called seminar inside the folder where i have the presentation QMD-file. i downloaded plugin.js into that folder. i created the file plugin.yml with the following content:

name: RevealSeminar
script: [plugin.js]

In the presentation file's metadata block, i added:

revealjs-plugins:
  - seminar

And i clicked the button for rendering. A message box appeared telling me:

Seminar server not specified!

The manual of this plugin does not state how to create and run my own server so that i can specify it. Please describe how to do that. The presentation file is open but i have no idea how to remote control it from my smartphone. i see no additional buttons and there is no separate file for speaker notes as in multiplex. Please feed some instructions into me.

[cderv]

The manual of this plugin does not state how to create and run my own server so that i can specify it. Please describe how to do that

You should see that with the plugin developer and its community. This is a tool for RevealJS and even if Quarto support revealjs and its plugin, we don't know all of the them and how they works.

For a quick search :

• Here information about seminar requirement: https://github.com/rajgoel/reveal.js-plugins/blob/master/seminar/README.md#requirements with links to example

• Configurations are described in the following paragraph : https://github.com/rajgoel/reveal.js-plugins/blob/master/seminar/README.md#configuration

When you understand how that works, our doc shows you how you should configure (https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/advanced.html#reveal-plugins) with links to examples - e.g multiplex code for the built-in plugin (https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/src/resources/formats/revealjs/plugins/multiplex/plugin.yml)

You'll find many more example and doc in the Revealjs plugin extension doc https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/listing-revealjs.html

With all that (found using a quick search on web and quarto doc) you should probably make it work.

Hope it helps

[piiskop]

So i went into the requirements section, followed the link to the server folder, cloned it and now the server is running.

So i went into the configuration section, and figured out that the necessary parameters are server, room, hash, and autoJoin.

So i went into the plugins section and followed the instructions by creating the subfolder seminar into the subfolder of my presentation, cloned all the plugin files into that created folder, and put the parameters with values into plugin.yml:

name: RevealSeminar
script: [plugin.js]
config:
  seminar:
    server: 'http://manual-for-rstudio.tennis24.ee:4433/'
    room: 'Some room name'
    hash: '$2a$05$kTSzbyI478NMZV8uN1NrV.LoLukWSL7Qwd6w6PPnIU3ZMXjWHsi4a'
    autoJoin: true 

Now, rendering the presentation is successful however i have no idea how to use it. The display itself now has only working menu elements and even the speaker view cannot connect. If seminar works like multiplex then there should be another file for the speaker but there is not. Instead, there is that room. What room? How can i access the presentation as a host, how can i access it as a non-host? i am only interested in getting it to work with quarto as i am managing my presentations with RStudio Server.

[m00sbrugger]

Piiskop, did you manage to get it to work? I too am using quarto and found this plugin very interesting, but my lack of skills in coding prevents med from going any futher.

[piiskop]

No.

[adam-coates]

After quite a while of tinkering around with this I managed to get the seminar plugin running with quarto.
However, only after using a post processing script.

I provide an example here for those that might find it useful.

Certain modifications are needed for the menu (a custom tab to enter credentials as an "admin") and a postprocess python script to basically search some strings and replace them with some functions and syntax needed to make it work.