From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 21:24:28 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 6126F106566C for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:24:28 +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 280AB8FC21 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id 36F8973098; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:35:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:35:17 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Larry Baird Message-ID: <20100713213517.GA6266@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <110613.02658.82616@localhost> <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-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 21:24:28 -0000 On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:36:50PM -0000, Larry Baird wrote: > 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. been there, done that: http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/mgpm/ cheers luigi > 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