Re: org-mode and htmlslidy

From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode and htmlslidy
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:38:18 -0600	[thread overview]
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>wrote:

> Does beamer and impressive support scrolling? I assume not as beamer is
> LaTeX based which also uses fixed paper size. The paradigm of fixed size
> slides is imho a remnant from a time when slides were "hardware" and placed
> on a overhead projector. I see no reason why shouldn't be able to scroll a
> long slide during a presentation if you can't fit it all on a single screen
> full.
>
>
Hmmm. Not on LInux right now -- I'll have to check. I know it zooms in on an
area but not sure how it would handle a bigger-than-full-screen slide. My
guess is that it would scale it to fit the page which would obviously not be
what you want.

What about prezi, then? No orgmode integration but seems to be the least
"powerpoint-ish" and reminiscent of the "olden days"? http://prezi.com/

John

> Regards,
> Dov
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 15:17, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> In looking for the perfect slide show generation from org-mode I have so
>>> far checked the following and found that they have serious problems:
>>>
>>>    - epresenter - Keyboard gets stuck, little control over display.
>>>    - org-s5 - No support for pages overflowing, e.g. when showing a long
>>>    slides I would like to scroll
>>>
>>> What about beamer? To date I haven't found anything I like as much! It
>> just seems to do about everything... even if that means hunting down the
>> occasional obscure code to force it to do my will!
>>
>> You can combine it with impressive! and do some fantastic things during
>> presentations: http://impressive.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>
>> John
>>
>
>

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