From: Jean Magnan de Bornier <jean@bornier.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:02:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a5yl9h0.fsf@boldair.bornier.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnhcgj93.nat.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl
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
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2009-10-05 5:02 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier [this message]
2009-10-03 20:11 Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files) Will Willis
2009-10-04 5:15 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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2009-10-05 0:11 ` Tim X
2009-10-05 12:10 ` Christian Egli
2009-10-05 12:32 ` Peter Münster
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2009-10-05 15:19 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
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