From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 14:23:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83368130ia.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> <70bb51fd-447d-928c-4d69-1c9673a44471@online.de> <83h7wh33ur.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="34522"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, colinetnathan98@gmail.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 15 13:24:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jZYRx-0008nQ-5u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 13:24:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZYRw-00056v-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZYRP-0004Ni-JU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35779) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jZYRO-0003qV-ED; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:23:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1857 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jZYRG-0004rI-QI; Fri, 15 May 2020 07:23:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Arthur Miller on Fri, 15 May 2020 12:43:13 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:250381 Archived-At: > From: Arthur Miller > Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:43:13 +0200 > Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, colinetnathan98@gmail.com, andreas.roehler@online.de, > rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > What is missing for displaying slides? AFAIK, the current Emacs > > display engine is perfectly capable of displaying text with images. > Slides as images (or pdfs), or even just plain text as some org :slide: > does work just fine as currently is in Emacs. I ment more that people > like to have some more elemnts, like lines, arrows, and > other graphical elements in office applications as well as laying out > those elements and text in a bit more advanced way. We have svg.el for that, can't it be utilized? > For example text boxes in office apps. I am not sure how easy it is > to layout images and have text wrap around it in Emacs and > similar. Shouldn't be a problem, we have image slices since Emacs 21.