Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>]

Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote :

| Will Willis wrote:

| > 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.  I've got about 15 minutes of Muse experience under my
| > belt. It might be what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure how to
| > generate landscape PDF files, or even how to delineate in muse-mode
| > where page breaks should be.
>
| I don't think that's even possible with muse. Except of course by
| inserting literal LaTeX commands.
>
| > Another stumbling block I'm having is even getting muse to output pdf
| > format (I'm on Windows).
>
| Muse uses LaTeX to produce pdf, perhaps you don't have it installed?
>
| > HTML output worked just fine, but I"m looking for
| > something similar to S5, http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>
| I suspect with the proper configuration, you could get Muse to output
| files in the s5 template. You'd have to customize muse-html-header(?)
| and set up a way to let muse create the <div class="slide"> tags for
| you. (I did something similar once, I could show you the code, but check
| the muse docs/mailing list first, because it could be that muse has a
| generic div tag handler now, which might be enough for you.

[...]

Muse will output slides out of the box with beamer if you just specify
"slides-pdf" as your style. That is, write your muse file and then :

C-c C-t RET slides-pdf

That's it!

cheers,
-- 
Jean