Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> Will Willis <will.willis@gmail.com> writes:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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I would  recommend this solution as well. The combination of auctex and
LaTeX beamer mode is really good. It allows you to create a PDF file
that consists of 'slides'. It has support for creating slides with
different colours and themes, allows 'animated' slides and lots
more. Another really nice feature is that it will also allow you to
create documents and handouts that can be very useful when you want to
provide additional information. From the one file, you can have a slides
pdf and a document pdf with additional background information. 

What I really like about it is that because it just generates a PDF, you
have no issues with using it on various systems. Nearly any system
connected to a data projector will have a pdf viewer, so no powerpoint
version issues. The pdf is well structure and on most systems, simply
hitting the space while viewing the pdf will flick to the next slide
etc. 

Using LaTex is also very easy if you also use the auctex package. The
beamer manual is very comprehensive and there are lots of examples out
there.

Tim

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