Six-skill presentation system: ingest talks into a rhetoric vault, run interactive clarification, generate a speaker profile, create presentations that match your documented patterns, produce the deck illustrations + thumbnail visual layer, and publish talk pages to a Jekyll shownotes site. Includes a 111-entry Presentation Patterns taxonomy (81 observable: 62 patterns + 19 antipatterns; 30 unobservable: 21 patterns + 9 antipatterns) for scoring, brainstorming, and go-live preparation.
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#!/bin/bash
# make-placeholder-slide.sh — build a loud yellow [PLACEHOLDER] slide as a 1-slide
# .pptx via the real PowerPoint app (MakePlaceholderSlide VBA macro), sized to the
# base deck. Replaces python-pptx insert-placeholder-slides.py. macOS + PowerPoint.
# See rules/deck-editing-rules.md.
#
# Mac VBA's Slide.MoveTo is broken, so placeholders are built as 1-slide decks here
# and inserted at their target positions by run-deck-ops.sh's order string. To drop
# N placeholders into a deck: build each with this script, then assemble once with
# run-deck-ops.sh, interleaving the placeholder aliases at the wanted positions, e.g.
# make-placeholder-slide.sh base.pptx ph1.pptx "Cost Curves" "MIT SSRN viz"
# run-deck-ops.sh base.pptx out.pptx "ph1=/abs/ph1.pptx" "BASE:1 BASE:2 ph1:1 BASE:3 ..." ""
#
# Usage:
# make-placeholder-slide.sh <basePath> <outPath> "<TITLE>" "<SUBTITLE>"
# basePath deck whose slide size the placeholder should match (uniquely-named copy)
# outPath where to write the 1-slide placeholder .pptx
# TITLE placeholder title (auto-prefixed "[PLACEHOLDER] " if not already)
# SUBTITLE context line ("" for none)
#
# Prerequisites: RunDeckOps.bas (which defines MakePlaceholderSlide) imported into an
# OPEN macro-enabled deck (DeckOps.pptm), macros enabled, Automation consent granted.
set -euo pipefail
if [[ $# -lt 4 ]]; then
echo "usage: make-placeholder-slide.sh <basePath> <outPath> <TITLE> <SUBTITLE>" >&2
exit 2
fi
BASE="$1"; OUT="$2"; TITLE="$3"; SUBTITLE="$4"
HERE="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
source "$HERE/ensure-drivers.sh" # restore .applescript/.bas drivers tessl install strips
source "$HERE/container-stage.sh" # stage Google-Drive inputs into the container (no Powerbox prompts)
DRIVER="$HERE/make-placeholder-slide.applescript"
[[ -f "$BASE" ]] || { echo "ERROR: base deck not found: $BASE — pass a uniquely-named copy whose slide size the placeholder should match." >&2; exit 1; }
[[ -f "$DRIVER" ]] || { echo "ERROR: driver not found: $DRIVER — reinstall the plugin; make-placeholder-slide.applescript must sit next to this script." >&2; exit 1; }
# Sandboxed PowerPoint can't create a file in a Google Drive folder (E_FAIL) —
# stage locally, then move into place with the shell.
STAGE_DIR="$HOME/.deckops-staging"
mkdir -p "$STAGE_DIR"
STAGE="$OUT_STAGE_DIR/$(basename "$OUT")"
rm -f "$STAGE"
osascript "$DRIVER" "$(stage_base "$BASE")" "$STAGE" "$TITLE" "$SUBTITLE"
if [[ -f "$STAGE" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$OUT")"
mv -f "$STAGE" "$OUT"
echo "done -> $OUT"
else
echo "ERROR: macro did not produce the staged slide. On a macro error the osascript step above already aborted with the VBA Err.Description; reaching here means the macro returned without error but wrote no file. Confirm DeckOps.pptm is open with macros enabled and Automation consent granted — see skills/presentation-creator/references/deck-editing-setup.md." >&2
exit 1
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