From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 24 20:16:57 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C566C1065673 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C9B8FC1A for ; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n3OKHp9O035394; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:17:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:44 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net> <20090423213624.GA27972@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:16:58 -0000 On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into > > slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM > > page website that will get me going.? > > For a "real slideshow" in terms of projected presentation, > maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex) > and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage > is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed > (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from > the ports), you can do: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. > > % xpdf -fullscreen > > If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to > create a script that reads the "big" HTML source and splits > it into "small" slides with less text, according to a template. > But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get > things like document structure right. > You're right, and thanks to you, Uli, and Andrew noted. Looks like the slideshow/ppt/impress method won't be the way to go. I've checked out the PresentationZen site and have a better idea how this kind of presentation works. I need some other means of reaching folks. gary > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php