Feature Request: Search Functionality for Quarto Reveal.js Presentations

[IndrajeetPatil]

Description

Problem Statement

When working with large Quarto Reveal.js presentations containing substantial content, users currently lack an efficient way to search for specific terms or concepts across slides. This limitation can significantly impact the user experience during presentations and when reviewing content.

Proposed Solution

The Reveal.js framework offers a search plugin called RevealSearch that provides slide content search capabilities. Implementing similar functionality for Quarto Reveal.js presentations would greatly enhance usability by allowing users to quickly locate relevant information within their presentations.

Benefits

• Improved navigation for large presentations
• Enhanced accessibility for content review
• Better user experience during live presentations
• Consistency with native Reveal.js capabilities

Request

Would it be possible to integrate search functionality similar to the RevealSearch plugin into Quarto's Reveal.js format? This feature would be particularly valuable for educational materials, conference presentations, and documentation that utilize the Reveal.js format.

Additional Context

This enhancement would align Quarto's Reveal.js implementation more closely with the full capabilities of the underlying Reveal.js framework, while maintaining Quarto's ease of use and markdown-based workflow.

[mcanouil]

As a starting point, a Quarto extension could be made to embed that plugin.
See https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/revealjs.html