Export HTML instead of PDF

[GV14982]

Hi, looking at presenterm-export I see that it converts to HTML as an intermediate representation. Is it possible to export that instead of a PDF currently? If not, is that a feature you might be interested in supporting? I'd be happy to contribute, just looking for some guidelines on where to start :)

[mfontanini]

The intermediate HTML is not really ready to be used in a browser as it's very tailored to be turned into a PDF. If you'd like an HTML export you'd probably need to massage the content quite a bit to make it look good. I'm curious how this would look like, you'd need buttons to go back and forth, and everything needed to make it look good on a browser. Also what about text positioning? The PDF tries to look the same as the presentation but in a browser you can scale the window and that'd change the way the text looks. e.g. if you widen it you probably wouldn't want to keep the presentation stuck to the top left corner.

I actually started making quite a few changes on presenterm-export to not rely on tmux/ansi2html anymore which may help here, since it doesn't need to deal with transforming HTML but instead turning text into HTML. I should have something at some point in the near future but in the meantime maybe figuring out how this would look like would be a good starting point.

But besides this, I'm curious why you'd want an HTML export and not PDF? It seems like PDF is a more "sharing friendly" format, unless you're looking at hosting the slides on the web directly?

[GV14982]

Tbh, I just want my gifs to play 😆

But yeah, I just kind of want to be able to send a fully functional set of slides to people who don't use presenterm.