From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christian Egli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files) Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6ee1e6090910031311s5051e94dlbeb67cf9e5880ac6@mail.gmail.com> <87tyyeog20.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254744783 10970 80.91.229.12 (5 Oct 2009 12:13:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:13:03 +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 14:12:58 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 1MumQk-0006aM-RL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:12:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57806 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MumQk-0005aD-LH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MumOz-00055B-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MumOu-00053F-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33641 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MumOu-00053C-97 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41292) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MumOt-0005TT-QP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:10:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MumOY-00056e-DG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: from 217.192.14.185 ([217.192.14.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:10:26 +0200 Original-Received: from christian.egli by 217.192.14.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:10:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.192.14.185 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:btsAjRjAHNahw9NzvVB8pTtGFrM= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:68682 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > 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. >> >> 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