Multi-page references / bibliography

[pat-s]

AFAIU from #271 and https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/index.html#content-overflow, there is currently no way to create multi-page reference slides.
Currently, if many references are used, these just overflow on the one single slide containing all references.

I'd favor these over the overflowing type, also for creating PDF slides from the HTML output.
Is there any way currently even to achieve this?
If not, it would be great if the item count per page could be defined by the user as the optimal one will depend on the default font size.

[mcanouil]

A filter or at worst a post-render script could add the slide separator where it "needs" to be.

[pat-s]

Interesting! How would the script locate the correct slide? And apply the insert so often that it does not overflow at the end?

Anyhow thanks for the idea!

[mcanouil]

It would require to targets and walk through some of the HTML div in which the bibliography in embedded.
This can be achieved by looking at the HTML source generated.
Then a Lua filter can be created using a loop and a counter to modify the blocks by adding section (slide) tags.

To give more details I need to take a look at the HTML, but above are the steps I would follow to try to get a multi-slide bibliography.

[cderv]

Community question about this: https://community.rstudio.com/t/how-can-i-split-a-quarto-beamer-bibliography-across-two-slides/167682/2

[jlgraves-ubc]

I just want to add this is super valuable - I played around a little bit with filters last night trying to get this to work, but it seems like we're really stuck from the user side - it seems that Quarto's writer adds the references after the quarto filters run, so there's no way to interact with the document since the pandoc process we need to adjust is later then we can access.

This is actually really rough for professional presentations, since we routinely need to have a detailed bibliography and it will not fit on a single slide in many cases.

[cderv]

yes for filters that needs to run after citeproc filter, this is a problem. we don't have a post citeproc place in the filter customisation. This will be improve in the future. Follow this one:

• improve pre-post filter decomposition #4113

The discussion about citeproc filter place is at

• citeproc settings in YAML metadata block: Problems when using pandoc-zotxt.lua filter #2294

and there is a workaround possible I believe at #2294 (comment) as Pandoc introduced pandoc.utils.citeproc() function to run citeproc step from a Lua filter. You need to set citeproc: false at YAML level to not have citeproc done twice though.
Example of filter using this workaround: https://github.com/andrewheiss/quarto-wordcount#how-this-all-works

This is actually really rough for professional presentations, since we routinely need to have a detailed bibliography and it will not fit on a single slide in many cases.

For now, you can also leverage the scrollable class for content overflow in Revealjs presensation. https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/revealjs/index.html#content-overflow
Not great, but a bit better in some cases.

Hope it helps.

[jlgraves-ubc]

Thanks - much appreciated. I'll give the workaround a try to see if I can swing it.

[cestrarz]

How exactly would separating the bibliography work for a beamer presentation? I am not yet familiar with filters or lua.

[cestrarz]

I found a way to do it without either! Setting the class of the frame to {.allowframebreaks} does the trick. Sorry about that, should have looked more before asking.

[fensch]

That's perfect! I was searching so long for something like {.allowframebreaks}. Thanks @cestrarz !

[mcanouil]

Closing in favour of #4113 and the linked workaround.