From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 08:10:50 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 E401D106566C for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.59.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8D338FC15 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:10:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id 3101073098; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Bakul Shah Message-ID: <20100713082140.GB96122@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i 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 08:10:51 -0000 On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:41:41PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > 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!] 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).