Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-04 Thread FRIGN
On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 21:15:40 +0100 k...@shike2.com wrote: > You can try with troff. Take a look of [1], [2] and [3]. Troff is not as good as LaTeX if you just look at the end result. I bet troff is a little bit more lightweight though. For presentations using LaTeX, you can use the beamer- packag

Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-04 Thread k0ga
> sent is interesting, but as a teacher, I need some mathematical symbols, > and a tool to write more than 3 words per slide... > > (by the way, on debian, sent can't find any font...) > > reveal.js is interesting too, but far from suckless... > > I'll stick to markdown+pandoc->beamer for now un

Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-04 Thread Thuban
sent is interesting, but as a teacher, I need some mathematical symbols, and a tool to write more than 3 words per slide... (by the way, on debian, sent can't find any font...) reveal.js is interesting too, but far from suckless... I'll stick to markdown+pandoc->beamer for now until I find bette

Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-01 Thread Leander S. Harding
At the other end of the spectrum, I've had good luck with Remark.js (http://remarkjs.com). It's only suckless relative to other presentation tools, but it handles all of the little annoyances of presentation rendering (deterministic text reflow, etc) for you and lets you just write your presentatio

Re: [dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-01 Thread Markus Teich
thu...@yeuxdelibad.net wrote: > what tool would you recommend to generate slides (pdf output if possible). Heyho, if you don't need much mathematic symbols, you can just use your terminal editor of choice. In case you don't like the terminal approach and can limit your slides to one line of ASCI

[dev] simple slide generator

2014-11-01 Thread thuban
Hi folks, what tool would you recommend to generate slides (pdf output if possible). Since now I use markdown + pandoc to export them as pdf, but it is far form suckless and I'm looking for someting simpler. Regards, Thuban