Date: 13 Jul 2010 16:36:50 -0000 From: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: an alternative to powerpoint Message-ID: <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> In-Reply-To: <110613.02658.82616@localhost>
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In article <110613.02658.82616@localhost> you 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/ Haven't used it in years, but I liked it when I used ports/misc/magicpoint. Port description is: MagicPoint - an X11 based presentation tool MagicPoint is an X11 based presentation tool. It is designed to make simple presentations easy while to make complicated presentations possible. Its presentation file (whose suffix is typically .mgp) is just text so that you can create presentation files quickly with your favorite editor (e.g. Emacs). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Larry Baird | http://www.gta.com Global Technology Associates, Inc. | Orlando, FL Email: lab@gta.com | TEL 407-380-0220, FAX 407-380-6080
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