Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an alternative to powerpoint Message-ID: <20100713082140.GB96122@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com>
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On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:41:41PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > 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!] latex based solutions are great when it comes to show formulas. I normally use prosper or similar things. But placing figures is a bit of a nightmare, though, and at least for slides there is a lot of visual clutter in the latex formatting (of course one could write a preprocessor from plain text to latex/prosper).
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