Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:35:17 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Larry Baird <lab@gta.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: an alternative to powerpoint Message-ID: <20100713213517.GA6266@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com> References: <110613.02658.82616@localhost> <20100713163650.86030.qmail@mailgate.gta.com>
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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
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