Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Will Willis]

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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.
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.

Another stumbling block I'm having is even getting muse to output pdf format
(I'm on Windows). HTML output worked just fine, but I"m looking for
something similar to S5, http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

Any muse help, or other presentation mode suggestions would be appreciated.

TIA,
Will Willis

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Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

Will Willis <will.willis@gmail.com> 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.

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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.


 sivaram
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Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Tim X]

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

> Will Willis <will.willis@gmail.com> 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

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Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Christian Egli]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Will Willis <will.willis@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>> 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.

Well, best of both worlds is of course to use org-mode and generate
LaTeX (beamer) from it. That way you work with a clean text file and do
not need to worry about the intricacies of LaTeX and Beamer. The
org-mode mailing list has some examples on how to make the LaTeX export
of org-mode generate beamer slides.

HTH
Christian

Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Peter Münster]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, 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.

Hello Will,

I like ConTeXt very much for making documents and presentations.
I don't know Muse, but you could take a look at:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse

Cheers, Peter

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Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> wrote :

| On Sat, 3 Oct 2009, 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.
>
| Hello Will,
>
| I like ConTeXt very much for making documents and presentations.
| I don't know Muse, but you could take a look at:
| http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse
>
Yes, Peter

context-slides-pdf is even better than slides-pdf!

(I'd lost my head this morning :-) )
-- 
Jean

Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Jean Magnan de Bornier]

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