Slide abstraction

[mattfidler]

Sometimes slides duplicate labels within the same slide, see:

Which duplicates Content Placeholder 2

This means ph_label won't work to access these elements. Can you specify id instead in the yaml file to access these properties?

[john-harrold]

I'll keep this open and think about it. However any changes will be probably take a while.

In the meantime you can rename the placeholders. On Windows go to View -> Slide Master then you can go to Home -> Arrange -> Selection Page and I think you can rename them there. There is something similar on OS X. The development version of officer has this new function called layout_dedupe_ph_labels() which will do this for you.

davidgohel/officer#589

[john-harrold]

This (the link below) is timely. I think if it is implemented it (and the dedupe function) can solve the problem. Both should be in the next CRAN release if markheckmann implements it.

davidgohel/officer#610 (comment)