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Found while testing crates/format/src/lib.rs:548 (outline_to_slides) and :628 (slides_to_outline) (no existing issue): Outline export/import merges a slide with an empty title into the previous slide.

Cause

slides_to_outline writes a slide with an empty title as a blank line followed by tab-indented body lines. outline_to_slides skipped every blank line, so no slide was started and the body lines were appended to the previous slide.

Fix

outline_to_slides now remembers when the line just before was blank. If a tab-indented line follows such a blank line, it starts a new slide with an empty title and that line as its first body paragraph.

Verified

• Regression test tests::outline_roundtrip_keeps_slide_with_empty_title: fails on main without the fix and passes with it (cargo test -p deckcraft-format outline_roundtrip_keeps_slide_with_empty_title).
• cargo xtask ci passes except tests::east_asian_vertical_text_stands_ideographs_upright, which also fails on main without this change.

Not changed

The exporter and markdown_to_slides are unchanged. A hand-typed blank line directly before a tab-indented line in a plain outline now also starts an empty-title slide, because it looks the same as an exported empty title. Blank lines elsewhere are still ignored. An empty-title slide with no body is still dropped on import, because its blank line is indistinguishable from a separator.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Preserved slides with empty titles and body text when exporting and re-importing presentations. Blank lines before tab-indented content now retain that content in an empty-title slide, including its nesting level. Other blank lines continue to be skipped, and indented content continues to append to the current slide when one exists.

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Walkthrough

The outline parser now starts an empty-title slide when a tab-indented line follows a blank line. A test checks that exporting and re-importing the outline preserves the slide count and content.

Changes: Empty-title slide parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and verify empty-title slides crates/format/src/lib.rs, crates/format/src/tests.rs	The parser records blank lines and starts an empty-title slide when a tab-indented line follows one. The test checks the slide count and exported outline after re-import.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• storytold/deckcraft#1075: Its table-row export change and this parser change both affect how outline_to_slides classifies indented lines.
• storytold/deckcraft#1260: Its table-row export change relies on the same classification of indented lines.
• storytold/deckcraft#1446: Both changes preserve empty-title slides with body content through different import paths.

Suggested reviewers: zetenypapp, aiongg

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 8c2b5

Importing a hand-typed or pasted outline that has a blank line inside a slide's body will now split that body into a separate untitled slide. This changes the existing import behavior for ordinary outlines. Make empty-title export unambiguous and keep ordinary blank lines inert before merging, or explicitly accept the behavior change.

Architecture risk: Medium · up to 8c2b5

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: crates

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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — crates (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/format/src/lib.rs: outline_to_slides now records a blank line instead of simply discarding it, while still skipping the blank itself.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/format/src/lib.rs: When a tab-indented line follows a blank line, outline_to_slides creates an empty-title slide with that line as its first body paragraph, using the indentation level minus one, capped at 8. Previously, this path did not create a slide.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/format/src/tests.rs: Added a test that creates two slides from an outline, empties the second slide’s title placeholder, then checks that an outline export and re-import retain two slides and reproduce the same outline.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for crates: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

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[FredApps]

I read the whole diff (crates/format/src/lib.rs, +18) and the callers of outline_to_slides. Hosted CI (gates (ubuntu-latest)) is green on this exact head, and the PR text is open about the trade-off below, which is why I'm leaving this as a comment, not an approval, because of the compatibility risk below.

What it does (checked). slides_to_outline writes an empty-title slide as an empty line followed by tab-indented body lines (s.title() is "", then out.push('\n'), then \t plus the text). outline_to_slides skipped every blank line, so those body lines were appended to the previous slide. Now it remembers a blank line, and a tab-indented line right after one starts a new slide with an empty title and that line as its first bullet at level - 1. The round-trip test (build A / x, B / y, empty slide 2's title, export, re-import, export again) is the right shape and passes in CI.

The compatibility risk (hold for a maintainer). The rule is "a blank line, then a line that starts with a tab", which an exported empty title and a hand-written outline can both produce, and the PR says so. It changes what existing text does on import, in places a user can reach on this head:

• crates/engine/src/cmd/slide.rs:623 (Insert ▸ Slides from Outline) and crates/engine/src/cmd/file.rs:171 pass user text straight in. Intro\n\tPoint one\n\n\tPoint two is one slide with two bullets on main (the blank line is ignored); after this PR it is two slides, the second with an empty title.
• markdown_to_slides hands a file with no headings to outline_to_slides (line 616). A loose Markdown list with tab-indented sub-items after a blank line (- A, blank, \t- sub) is common, and it would now make an extra empty-title slide per sub-list.
• A blank line before the first slide's first indented line (\n\tfoo) used to be dropped (no slide yet) and now creates an empty-title slide.

On the other side, a slide with an empty title and no body is still lost on round-trip, as the PR says, so the fix is partial whichever way it goes.

Question: can the export be made unambiguous? The cleaner fix is on the export side: slides_to_outline would write an empty title as something a hand-written outline doesn't produce by accident, and import would read only that. I haven't worked out what that marker should be (a lone - is kept as text today, because the bullet prefix needs a following space, so it would need its own rule and test). That is the maintainers' format decision. Whatever is chosen, please add tests for the two hand-written inputs above, so the intended behaviour is written down.

holds: the import rule for hand-written outlines and loose Markdown lists; the empty-title-no-body case.

[echelon]

Thanks. This makes a blank line before an indented line meaningful, which changes how hand-typed or pasted outlines import (Title\n\tA\n\n\tB would gain an empty slide). Could you fix it on the export side instead (never emit a bare empty title line for an untitled slide with a body) so ordinary outlines import as before, and add a test that Title\n\tA\n\n\tB still imports as one slide? Note #1075 touches the same round trip; its test currently asserts a titleless slide disappears, so the two need to agree.

[Harrison-Booth]

Checked against RTF written by real PowerPoint (Microsoft Office 16, on Windows).

What ran:

• Built a 6-slide deck through PowerPoint COM, with slide 5 having an empty title and the body orphan body, and saved it with SaveAs(..., ppSaveAsRTF).
• Ran that file through deckcraft_format::rtf::rtf_to_outline and then outline_to_slides, in a scratch build of crates/format. This branch is based before rtf.rs existed and conflicts with current main in lib.rs, so I applied this PR's code change in outline_to_slides (not its tests) onto current main.

Result: no difference with this change.

• PowerPoint writes the empty title as a paragraph with no text (\pard ... {\f3 \par }), and rtf_to_outline currently emits no blank line for it. The outline it produces is ...Empty-next\n\tbody 4\n\tsecond 4\n\torphan body\nLast..., so orphan body is still appended to the previous slide, and 5 slides come out of 6, both on main and with this PR.
• So the fix applies to the plain-text export (blank line, then tab-indented line), but it does not cover an empty-title slide coming from a PowerPoint RTF, because that blank line never reaches outline_to_slides. If the intent is to cover RTF too, rtf_to_outline would need to keep that empty paragraph as a blank line.

Not checked: the PR's own unit tests and the app UI.

I also ran the plain-text case in PowerPoint: Slides.InsertFromFile on the text A, <tab>x, a blank line, <tab>y, B, <tab>z gives 2 slides, A (body x, y) and B (body z). PowerPoint skips the blank line and appends y to slide A, which is what DeckCraft does on main today. With this PR, DeckCraft would instead make a third slide with an empty title for y, so this change differs from what PowerPoint does for that file.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Preserve blank separators within a slide.

For Title\n\tA\n\n\tB, this branch creates a second, empty-title slide instead of keeping B in Title’s body. The same blank-line sequence also represents an exported empty-title slide, so the parser cannot distinguish the two cases. Encode empty titles unambiguously on export, and keep ordinary blank lines inert on import. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @crates/format/src/lib.rs around lines 580 - 582:
Update the import logic at the `blank_before && raw.starts_with('\t')` branch so
ordinary blank lines remain inert and do not start a new empty-title slide,
preserving following content in the current slide’s body. Change the export
logic to encode empty-title slides unambiguously, so imports can distinguish
them from blank separators within a slide.

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[echelon]

Friendly ping: the earlier request is still open. Please move the fix to the export side (don't write a bare empty title line for an untitled slide with a body) and add the Title\n\tA\n\n\tB stays-one-slide test. #1446 already keeps empty titles on the RTF path.

[FredApps]

ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)

I read the visible hunks: when importing an outline, a tab-indented line after a blank line keeps the slide even if the title is empty (the shape an export produces). It's a heuristic on raw.starts_with('\t') only; spaces-indented outlines still lose the body. Please also handle the space-indented form or say why not, and add the exported-outline round-trip test.

I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.

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