Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:41:41 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an alternative to powerpoint Message-ID: <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 %2B0200." <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard > would it be to do something that accepts a plain text file > as input (without a ton of formatting) and lets you do a decent > slide show, and supports editing the slides on the fly within > the browser. > > Well, it's not too hard: > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sttp/ > > just 400 lines of javascript and 100 lines of css, plus > your human-readable text. > > Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) as my testing > platforms are limited to Firefox, IE and chrome (which unfortunately > cannot save the edited file) Seems to work fine in Safari & Opera. Your note inspired me to search the 'Net! Since I prefer \latex{goop} to <html>goop</html> I went looking for a latex class and found 'Prosper'. Looks like it can produce some really nice slides! See the examples here: http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/prosper/ And here is a tutorial: http://www.math.umbc.edu/~rouben/prosper/ And of course, it is already in /usr/ports/textproc/prosper! I will have to give it a try as I was getting tired of fiddling around in Keynote (and I don't like powerpoint). [Hope you don't mind my mentioning Prosper!]
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