How to increase width of slide content?

Question

Or specify the format to 16:9 for example?

I need to fit more text (quotes that I can't really abbreviate) onto a slide. Trying various combinations of .reveal .slides and section>* with width: 1280px or 150% (derived from gitpitch/wiki/Slideshow-Custom-CSS#Example-2) didn't help.

Answer 1

This question was asked quite some time ago but I'm going to answer it now (albeit late) as the answer might be helpful for new visitors to this SO thread in the future.

The 3rd slide in the sample presentation that was provided makes use of a Markdown blockquote. That blockquote is ultimately rendered as a HTML blockquote with a default width css style set to 70%. That default 70% width comes from the default GitPitch/reveal.js white theme.

So to fit more text into quotes you do not want to use custom CSS try and change the width of the slide itself. You want to use custom CSS to modify the default theme to make blockquotes use more than 70% width of the slide.

This is achieved very simply using the following CSS snippet:

.reveal blockquote { width: 90% }

In this case, if you used this custom CSS your slideshow would render quotes using 90% of the slide width. In that way you could fit more text in your quotes on a single slide.

To use custom CSS with your GitPitch presentation see the following GitPitch Wiki page for details.