Add the possibility to adjust the text in the metadata automatic slide
Add the possibility to chose a different color, and eventually size, bold/italic and even font type, for certain parts of the metadata page, so that for example the song number could result more evident.
Why to include this feature into Cantara?
In the Danish Church, hymns are mainly coming from the Danish Hymn Book (Den Danske Salmebog), and they are referred to by number, not much by title. So it could help if the number could stick out a bit more, not to get lost among other elements of the metadata. I adapted a model for the metadata that include the number, the source (the book the hymns or songs come from), author of the text and author of the music (composer).
Also graying out (or adding adjustable transparency to) the "Spoil next slides" could be great, not to distract too much the main part of the text.
There is also a small thing in the metadata part: it seems that extra "spaces" are added before and after fiels, no matter what. For example, putting two different fields beside each other adds 2 extra space between the 2 text elements, or using (brackets) to enclose a field also adds extra spaces: {%Composer%}({Composer}) results in something like "( Composer )" instead of "(Composer)", I hope I can explain myself.
Mouse when in Full Screen with one monitor
Could be cool if the mouse went away during the presentation, at least in full screen. Off course that is a problem only when you use 1 screen, with 2 that should not be an issue when the mouse stays on the presenter's screen.
Compliments, thanks and notes
I put it here at the end, but should have been at the front: I discovered this project today, and decided almost instantly to start using it, it's great! I am organist, I use something similar already, for myself, to have the texts of the Hymns clear while I play, I used prezi but wanted to get off-line (some remote churches can have signal problems, and I don't want to depend on 3rd parties), tried with Librera with the same PDFs that I compiled in years, doing them myself, and it works fine too with a large Android tablet. But the fact that here I can start from text files and work with plain text makes everything easier, lighter and more flexible.
I didn't start to convert anything yet, I didn't check if there's anything already present that could avoid me having to do everything by hand, or try to batch convert my PDFs or other ways... but the system is lovely, I already tried to run it on an old Lenovo Miix 300, a machine so small and weak it can't do much, but with Void Linux (right now I am trying KDE Linux, works great too, wanted Arch but the installer can't see the eMMC and I gave up) and with Cantara it can become my new companion (it's a small Intel Atom, those all-in-ones disasters with 64 bit processor but 32 bit EFI, only 2 Gb of RAM and 32 Gb of eMMC, a pain, but a big joy seeing it snappy with a small and light app like this!). Tried the AUR version on my main machine, works great too off course.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Add the possibility to adjust the text in the metadata automatic slide
Add the possibility to chose a different color, and eventually size, bold/italic and even font type, for certain parts of the metadata page, so that for example the song number could result more evident.
Why to include this feature into Cantara?
In the Danish Church, hymns are mainly coming from the Danish Hymn Book (Den Danske Salmebog), and they are referred to by number, not much by title. So it could help if the number could stick out a bit more, not to get lost among other elements of the metadata. I adapted a model for the metadata that include the number, the source (the book the hymns or songs come from), author of the text and author of the music (composer).
Also graying out (or adding adjustable transparency to) the "Spoil next slides" could be great, not to distract too much the main part of the text.
There is also a small thing in the metadata part: it seems that extra "spaces" are added before and after fiels, no matter what. For example, putting two different fields beside each other adds 2 extra space between the 2 text elements, or using (brackets) to enclose a field also adds extra spaces: {%Composer%}({Composer}) results in something like "( Composer )" instead of "(Composer)", I hope I can explain myself.
Mouse when in Full Screen with one monitor
Could be cool if the mouse went away during the presentation, at least in full screen. Off course that is a problem only when you use 1 screen, with 2 that should not be an issue when the mouse stays on the presenter's screen.
Compliments, thanks and notes
I put it here at the end, but should have been at the front: I discovered this project today, and decided almost instantly to start using it, it's great! I am organist, I use something similar already, for myself, to have the texts of the Hymns clear while I play, I used prezi but wanted to get off-line (some remote churches can have signal problems, and I don't want to depend on 3rd parties), tried with Librera with the same PDFs that I compiled in years, doing them myself, and it works fine too with a large Android tablet. But the fact that here I can start from text files and work with plain text makes everything easier, lighter and more flexible.
I didn't start to convert anything yet, I didn't check if there's anything already present that could avoid me having to do everything by hand, or try to batch convert my PDFs or other ways... but the system is lovely, I already tried to run it on an old Lenovo Miix 300, a machine so small and weak it can't do much, but with Void Linux (right now I am trying KDE Linux, works great too, wanted Arch but the installer can't see the eMMC and I gave up) and with Cantara it can become my new companion (it's a small Intel Atom, those all-in-ones disasters with 64 bit processor but 32 bit EFI, only 2 Gb of RAM and 32 Gb of eMMC, a pain, but a big joy seeing it snappy with a small and light app like this!). Tried the AUR version on my main machine, works great too off course.
Thank you thank you thank you!!!