Alignment of slides in Sermon Editor
I'm noticing that the generated slides in the Sermon Editor get out of alignment with the text to the right after about 8-10 slides. For longer sermons with many slides, it gets very difficult to figure out which slide on the left is the one you may want to edit or change.
This probably seems minor, but it is causing me to waste time, especially when I go into a sermon the next day to continue work and have to figure out just which slides coincide with what text.
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Yes; if I'm understanding you correctly, this layout is by design.
Since a slide preview is taller than a typical single line of text, if you have lots of single-line paragraphs that each have slides attached, the slides do bump each other down and get further from the paragraph they're attached to.
Another option would have been to stretch out the space between the paragraphs to make room for the slides--but then you'd have varying paragraph spacing, depending on how many slides were attached to the paragraph, and readability of the document would suffer.
Another option would be to shrink the slide previews where necessary, but that hurts the readability of the slide previews and causes other alignment issues (as you proportionally shrink a preview, its width gets narrower, and then that column of previews starts to look awkwardly ragged).
When designing the feature, we discussed these possibilities and decided to go with the first option.
To help you figure out which slides are attached to which paragraphs, if you put the cursor in a paragraph, any slides that are attached to it should highlight in blue.
Also, the alignment will "catch up" if the document leaves enough vertical room (so, a longer paragraph that wraps over a few lines, or a passage card, or a couple of blank lines).
Hopefully that helps explain what's going on.
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Thanks for this answer it it makes sense. The blue highlight part is a good tip. I would never have noticed; the highlight is very subtle.
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