From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 07:24:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1591C16A4B3; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 07:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C1643F93; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 07:24:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tbstep@tampabay.rr.com) Received: from 2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com (2416459hfc31.tampabay.rr.com [24.164.59.31])h95EOLSP012134; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:24:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Stephens To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Rus Foster Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 10:20:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20031005002433.GA660@desktop.gs> <20031005065657.GX45668@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200310050922.57596.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200310050922.57596.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> X-Marks-The-Spot: Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310051020.23957.tbstep@tampabay.rr.com> cc: Gabriel Striewe cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 14:24:26 -0000 On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: > Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at > the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to > create "ASCII Slides", so I don't know if that means it can read from > a text file or not. I might try it out just to see, but I am trying > to cut back on what I am installing these days. The ports system > almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little > crazy with it lately. Follow up to this. Slideshow is indeed a very powerful presentation program. The problem lies in figuring out how to use it. It appears to me that you have to write the slides in XML, then program the actual slideshow in Python, since slideshow is apparently a Python module. The 'example' slideshow that is installed doesn't really tell me much, and the docs installed simply refer you to the sample slideshow. -- Todd Stephens "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato