From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Magnan de Bornier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:02:03 +0200 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Message-ID: <873a5yl9h0.fsf@boldair.bornier.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254721316 6000 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2009 05:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 05:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 05 07:41:50 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 1MugKS-0007MH-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53514 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MugKS-0000Fe-K0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp3-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sh95hdxfda8en0ABiIZdduCraeE= Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 Oct 2009 07:07:48 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.56.145.104 Original-X-Trace: 1254719268 news-3.free.fr 31586 81.56.145.104:42247 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173578 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:68674 Archived-At: Joost Kremers 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
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