Language support

[datalorax]

There seems to be a fair amount of interest in getting this running with other languages. I'm all for it, but at this point in the development I can't devote the time to it. If there are others out there that are willing to put in the time, I would love the contribution. I am also happy to chat about the code I have and how I think it could be modified to support other languages, particularly if you don't have a lot of prior experience with xml code. If you're an expert in navigating xml trees, all the better. 😎

[etabeta78]

Hi, would it be possible to have in the meanwhile a way to turn off the language check (leaving it turned on bu default) so to understand better how large impact has the encoding?

I have several slidesets which have language set to non en-US, but written in English (I guess due to local settings used by PowerPoint at slide generation) and I would like to understand which impacts the 'declared' encoding could have :-)

ETA: OK, I stumbled upon the other (closed) issue about language support and now I see XML tags are different... I should have searched before commenting.

[datalorax]

No problem. Sorry there hasn't been progress on this.

[arubio2]

Hi there. A workaround for the language issues is the following (it worked for me);:

1. Upload the presentation to Google Drive
2. Download it again (some changes in it performed silently)
3. Run the newbullets branch of the project (devtools::install_github("datalorax/slidex", ref="newbullets"))

That's it :)

[datalorax]

Wow! This is great to hear! Thank you! I'll try to get this documented. (and eventually I need to make the final edits to that newbullets branch and merge it with master)

[brunolucian]

Hi there. A workaround for the language issues is the following (it worked for me);:

1. Upload the presentation to Google Drive
2. Download it again (some changes in it performed silently)
3. Run the newbullets branch of the project (devtools::install_github("datalorax/slidex", ref="newbullets"))

That's it :)

That approach not work for me 👎

[datalorax]

I'm pretty sure the new dplyr broke this. I will try to get around to fixing it soon.

[datalorax]

Alright, turns out this is an issue with Office 365 (I built this using Office 2016 for Mac). Please try downloading and installing the latest commits with remotes::install_github("datalorax/slidex@office365-changes") and see if that works for you.

[sebacea]

Great job, do you have any news regarding non-english encodings? i do not see branch office365-changes

[datalorax]

Hi - that branch no longer exists because it was merged in with the main branch. Development on this project has basically stopped. I just don't have the time to support it, unfortunately. But, I did just put out a call for help on twitter (https://twitter.com/datalorax_/status/1357184005242716162?s=20) so perhaps somebody will come and help get it moving again. Sorry there has been little to no movement on this since its initial development.