From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 16:21:22 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 F22031065672 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:21:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from maxim.konovalov@gmail.com) Received: from mp2.macomnet.net (cl-2958.ham-01.de.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:6f8:900:b8d::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771C58FC0A for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mp2.macomnet.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6DGLKPt098965; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:21:21 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from maxim.konovalov@gmail.com) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:21:20 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov To: Peter Pentchev In-Reply-To: <20100713131706.GA2459@straylight.ringlet.net> Message-ID: References: <20100713041514.GA93662@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20100713131706.GA2459@straylight.ringlet.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:55:54 +0000 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo 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 16:21:23 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, 16:17+0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:15:14AM +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. > > Nice work indeed! > > Just as an aside, though - are you aware of Eric Meyer's S5, > also available in your friendly neighbourhood Ports Collection > as textproc/s5? :) > > But yours does look a bit simpler to enter text in, although > I myself am quite used to typing HTML. > + misc/magicpoint. -- Maxim Konovalov