From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 05:41:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A834E1065677 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (mail.bitblocks.com [64.142.15.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB658FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost.bitblocks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C01FF5B81; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:41:41 -0700 (PDT) To: Luigi Rizzo In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200." <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Comments: In-reply-to Luigi Rizzo message dated "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200." Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:41:41 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an alternative to powerpoint X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 05:41:42 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200 Luigi Rizzo 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 goop 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!]