Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:07:57 -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: <20100713090757.34BCB5B23@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 %2B0200." <20100713082140.GB96122@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100713054141.C01FF5B81@mail.bitblocks.com> <20100713082140.GB96122@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 +0200 Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > 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). Basically a unified work flow with latex is what appeals to me. But agreed on the visual clutter. A plain text to prosper preprocessor is a great idea! Very nice work, BTW! And I can already think of new uses for it! Ed Schouten asks: > Why not use the `beamer' class? > http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home I didn't know about it. I will certainly check it out now. Thanks!
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