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Daniel	087f717f55	feat: the model designs the deck instead of writing markdown for a parser to guess at ... Markdown could express about five of the things the renderer can draw, so the model had no way to say "put this figure beside these three bullets" or "make this a comparison with two labelled columns" — my parser inferred a layout from the shape of a list, and inferring is what made every deck look the same. A presentation is now described as a deck: the model returns JSON naming a layout per slide and the prompt it wants each figure drawn from. Four layouts were added to the renderer for it — two tinted labelled columns for a comparison, a callout card for a red flag or a dose, a figure beside its bullets, and a full-slide figure. Articles stay markdown, which is what prose wants. Markdown is still produced, serialised from the deck, so Word export and text editing keep working and the stored artifact stays readable by a person. The deck is stored alongside it because that serialisation is lossy by design: round-tripping through markdown would throw away exactly the layout choices this was built to capture. A resource made before this, or an article forced into slides, still renders by inferring from its markdown. Nothing here can cost more than the thing that went wrong. A reply that is not a deck falls back to asking for markdown rather than saving the model's apology; a malformed slide degrades to bullets rather than throwing; a comparison with one column is not a comparison; a figure that cannot be queued leaves a slide of text rather than an empty frame; and JSON wrapped in fences or a covering sentence is read rather than refused. Verified live on "croup versus epiglottitis": the model chose section, bullets, table, compare, figure, callout and image layouts across thirteen slides, and the exported deck was rendered to PDF, rasterised and looked at — the comparison renders as two tinted cards, the red flag as a callout, and the figure sits beside its bullets. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dv6sqaY6Vq3ChZHMem3cnU	2026-09-11 19:49:55 +02:00
Daniel	73ce4049d4	feat: decks are built with python-pptx instead of pandoc, and carry their figures ... Pandoc's pptx writer was the ceiling on how good a generated deck could be, and the model on top made no difference to it. It maps markdown onto a handful of reference layouts with no per-slide layout, no positioning and no control over how large an image is drawn, which is why every deck came out as bullets on a template — and why autofit had to be injected into its emitted OOXML by hand afterwards, because LibreOffice ignores the autofit pandoc leaves off. scripts/render_pptx.py draws the deck and src/utils/slideSpec.js decides what each slide is. Markdown stays the stored artifact, so "change slide 4" is still a text edit and Word export is untouched — pandoc still writes docx, where its output is good. What that buys, all of it visible in a rendered deck rather than argued for: - 16:9, not pandoc's 4:3. - A pipe table becomes a real table with a header band and banded rows, not eight lines of text with pipes in them. - A list longer than seven items becomes two columns instead of a wall of text. - Text is measured and sized to fit before the file is written, so nothing depends on a renderer honouring autofit. - Wrapped lines hang under the text instead of running back to the margin, which is the clearest single tell that a deck was generated. - An image is drawn at its own aspect ratio, centred, with a caption. Figures now reach the deck at all, which they never did. They were queued and shown on the page, but nothing recorded that they belonged to the resource, so an export could not include them: user_resources.image_ids holds them, a modification adds to that list rather than replacing it, and export fetches the finished ones to a scratch directory. They are spread through the deck rather than appended, because ending on three unexplained pictures is worse than showing each near its material, and a References slide stays last. If the renderer fails for any reason, pandoc still produces a deck — a plainer deck beats a failed download. Verified end to end: a seven-slide request with three figures exported as a 13-page deck; the slides were rendered to PDF, rasterised and looked at. All three formats still download. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dv6sqaY6Vq3ChZHMem3cnU	2026-09-11 19:34:26 +02:00