Appoligies to Josh. I think the default reply too has changed for gmail, but I'm probably just fumble fingered.
Bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Presention software? To: Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> Just for completeness, I've done some presentations using PDFs made using the Beamer package for LaTeX. Sample here: http://ke1g.org/media/uploads/files/egg_hunt.pdf . Unless you know TeX/LaTeX (or want desperately to learn it), it is probably not worth your time. If you do want to try it, I could find you the source for that presentation of another as reference. Bill On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com>wrote: > 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/ >
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