From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 17:03:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94F01065673 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:03:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lab@gta.com) Received: from mailgate.gta.com (mailgate.gta.com [199.120.225.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67C038FC21 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 86031 invoked by uid 1000); 13 Jul 2010 16:36:50 -0000 Date: 13 Jul 2010 16:36:50 -0000 Message-ID: <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> From: Larry Baird To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Organization: Global Technology Associates In-Reply-To: <110613.02658.82616@localhost> User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.3-PRERELEASE (i386)) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:41:48 +0000 Cc: 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 17:03:34 -0000 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