autoslides=False fails when some documents don't include ..slide:: directive

[puterleat]

Setting autoslides=False fails when some documents don't include ..slide:: directive. The error is:

Exception occurred:
File "/Users/ben/Envs/lectures/lib/python2.7/site-packages/docutils/nodes.py", line 954, in replace_self
'Losing "%s" attribute: %s' % (att, self[att])
AssertionError: Losing "ids" attribute: ['foo']

Adding .. slide:: to document foo fixes the error. I'm ambivalent about what the default behaviour should be, but either:

• building a single side from the title or
• building no slides for the doc at all

Would be preferable. As it stands I have to add an empty slide to all docs in my project if I want to turn off auto slides.

[winged]

I just ran into the same issue and couldn't really figure out the reason for it.

I tried using the autoslides=False setting in a big documentation project that only had a few files that actually contained slides. For that case, your second option (building no slides for the doc at all) would be preferrable.

My current workaround is to have a ifslides / ifnotslides decision right in index.rst, switching between slides and non-slides mode. However I think it's not really optimal that way...