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> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author."

Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. People should cherish that. (I know I do.)

My priority isn't esoteric, it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations. For the vast majority of people the problem they need solved is "will this work on their junk setup I first saw five minutes ago", not graphviz integration.

> Anyway, it exports pdf.

If so, this should be point #1 on your README, in big bold letters. In reality, of course, there's caveats, and the exported PDF will mostly fail in real-world conditions.

This is not surprising: the priorities are off, the features tested aren't the ones that need testing, and so the tool isn't solving the problem that really needs to be solved.

Again, please don't take this as contempt. Best wishes and I hope you set your priorities in order.




real feedback, based on not even reading the Readme fully but being sure it's "extremely low quality"?

And of course ignoring the fact that your "first concern" might not be so important for other people, who either seldom need export or can use HTML as an export format.


> it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations

No, it's definitely not. Most people I see (I see a lot) are presenting from their own laptops.

For the record I'm not involved in this project.


Out of interest, why will the exported PDF fail?


because otherwise he'd have to admit he's been an irrationally harsh critic /s




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