[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33603] Presenter notes should be available in normal view as a scrolling pane

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33603

--- Comment #21 from Richard Neill <freedesktop at richardneill.org> ---
You're absolutely right. When I make slides, I am always editing the visuals
(what goes on the slide and then the projector screen), and my speech (what
goes in the notes, and I use as the autocue) in parallel. It would make LO *so*
much more productive if the speaker notes were always visible  at the same
time, rather than laboriously having to context switch in and out of the Notes
view (about 5 seconds every time, after the slides re-flow).  I estimate this
one thing would have saved me 10 hours of work this week.

In an ideal world, for me:

* The area around the slide itself would be locked, to avoid pointless hor/vert
scrolling

* The notes would always be visible, under the main slide, [or perhaps in a
side panel] - and the place for typing them shouldn't move around or be
deletable.

* The notes area would be forced to plaintext - yes, I want to be able to embed
line-breaks (and maybe bold/italic/underline), but I really don't want any more
than that level of formatting - and it always looks messy on printouts if the
speaker notes embed random font sizes, or the position moves around underneath
the slide.

* When giving a presentation, the notes should show up in the optimal way for
autocue, say at 18pt font, in one of the most legible - this might be a
property of LO's config, rather than the specific presentation - and obviously,
shrink the font if the notes are so long that they scroll off the screen!

* When exporting, the notes should be well laid out under the slide, and should
not move sideways. 

Fixing this would definitely merit a bug bounty from me - thanks.

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