From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:11:35 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87tyyeog20.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <6ee1e6090910031311s5051e94dlbeb67cf9e5880ac6@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254703310 6253 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2009 00:41:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:41:50 +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 02:41:44 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 1Mube3-0006l5-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:41:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37075 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mube3-0002r9-Tc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:41:43 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!news.astraweb.com!border2.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9m8N9vQB0o1vqI4ZqRYo8s0mU7I= Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83cda6bd.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=?fa?bM^a:TL6; ?e@]GfeBGL?0kYOcDh@JEE63Zc8>UeGVkdH^i[BCoF_a[HFBB\7ZMKMDlYUcdaaN Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173576 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:68671 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > Will Willis writes: > >> 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. > > [snipped 12 lines] > > 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. > > 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 > -- > > > -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au