Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes: > > I should have mentioned up front that I'd already actually > looked at S5 and decided against it. It looks like a good tool > for doing what it does, but what it does isn't what I want > (as far as I can tell from the examples). The same goes > for impress.js.
... and reveal.js, which was actually the one I was thinking of when I wrote "impress.js" :) (both of them actually seem to do what they do well enough, actually; I'm just looking for something that does something else :)) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." > I don't want my in-person presentation to revolve around me > *reading the content of the slides* to my audience; I've always > hated watching other peoples presentations that are done like > that--I find myself asking `why are both of us wasting our time > with me sitting here waiting for you to finish reading the slides > to me when I could just read them myself?'. It always seems > like we could save an hour (multiplied by the number of people > at those presentation!) if we all just read the slides ourselves > and then convened afterward for *just the Q&A* portion.... > > I want to put together something more like, I guess, this > `remedies for frustration' presentation by Martin Pool: > > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awg1CHM1w128iOBp_JOxE2DgHfywBeyjDe2bkx1vfVQ/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p > > ... or a presentation that Larry Lessig gave but that I can't > find right now. > > The slides are just illustrations for text/speech; rather than > the text/speech being `narration for the slides'. > > But: > > * when I give the talk in person, I need notes (outside > of the slides) to guide me through the topics. > I might as well store those *in the presentation* > somehow, even though they'll be *outside the slides*. > > * When I post it on my website, I'll the `notes' > or narration will *need* to be included in the > packaged presentation, otherwise the slides won't > make any sense. > > Ideally, because of the `slides as illustrations for the speech > vs. speech as narration for the slides' issue, I'd like to have > slide-sequences subordinate to notes rather than the other way > around--because there are some things where I'd really prefer > to be able to flip through several slides for a single paragraph > (or even sentence) of speech. > > (for example, 3 slides for "Powerpoint is.... Hurting. Communication.") > > It looks like some of the Emacs org-mode-based options might > allow for that (not sure yet); is there *anything* [else?] > that will actually give me what I want? If not, how close > can I get? > > Alternately: I heard someone say, a while back, that `Tufte > should realise that, good or bad, Powerpoint has one--so > it's time to stop hating and start *co-opting*'. But how? > > > "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <g...@freephile.com> writes: > > > > +1 Eric Meyer's s5 is good. > > > > My notes on the subject > > https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Presentation > > > > Greg Rundlett _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
