From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files) Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:45:47 +0530 Message-ID: <82ab07g2nw.fsf@gmail.com> References: <6ee1e6090910031311s5051e94dlbeb67cf9e5880ac6@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254633426 21057 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2009 05:17:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 05:17:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 07:16:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MuJSs-0007Ek-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:16:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuJSs-0002Xi-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuJSH-0002Wk-AL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuJSB-0002Sx-69 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57233 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuJSB-0002Sp-24 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60113) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MuJSA-0004rw-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MuJS8-00077O-TO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.167.76.221 ([122.167.76.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:16:12 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.76.221 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:16:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.76.221 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TAj4jsrscBvwcUVCeZ+1ELjjZ8s= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68662 Archived-At: Will Willis writes: > I'm attempting to put together a series of presentations for my co-workers. > I'm looking for a way to generate a powerpoint-like slide deck from a text > file. Something akin to org-mode style or even Muse as the input, and > something like HTML slides or even a PDF as the output. [snipped 12 lines] Well, if you know LaTEX, then beamer package might be a good start. There are enough examples out there to get you started. You could use auctex mode in Emacs to work on it too. sivaram --