an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-12 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard would it be to do something that accepts a plain text file as input (without a ton of formatting) and lets

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-12 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard > would it be to do something that accepts a

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-12 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard > would it be to do something that accepts a pla

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:41:41PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:15:14 +0200 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > > or images grabbed around the net, so i

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Ed Schouten
* Bakul Shah wrote: > I went looking for a latex class and found 'Prosper'. Why not use the `beamer' class? http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home This is what I always use to prepare my slides. Works great. -- Ed Schouten WWW: http://80386.nl/ pgpcJX5O25Jc4.pgp Descriptio

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Bakul Shah
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:21:40 +0200 Luigi Rizzo wrote: > latex based solutions are great when it comes to show formulas. > I normally use prosper or similar things. > But placing figures is a bit of a nightmare, though, and at least > for slides there is a lot of visual clutter in the latex format

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:17:06PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: ... > Nice work indeed! > > Just as an aside, though - are you aware of Eric Meyer's S5, > also available in your friendly neighbourhood Ports Collection > as textproc/s5? :) yes, there are many such things -- and i have done a fair

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:15:14AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard > would it be to do something that accep

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :) (and the layout is messed up) ___ freebsd-h

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, 16:17+0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:15:14AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > > or images grabbed around the net, so i

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread John Nielsen
On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :) (and the layout is messed up) The front

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Larry Baird
In article <110613.02658.82...@localhost> you wrote: > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard > would it be to do something that accepts a pla

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
John Nielsen wrote: > On Jul 13, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > >> Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > >> on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) > > > > For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:36:50PM -, Larry Baird wrote: > In article <110613.02658.82...@localhost> you wrote: > > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes > > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets > > or images grabbed around the net, so i wa

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Whoops I forgot cc hackers so resent. > > Haven't used it in years, but I liked it when I used ports/misc/magicpoint. > > been there, done that: > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/mgpm/ > > cheers > luigi Hey That's nice Luigi ! Multicast mgpm ... Hmm so eg BSD tech groups could do presentati

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-13 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Whoops I forgot cc hackers so resent. > > > > Haven't used it in years, but I liked it when I used > > > ports/misc/magicpoint. > > > > been there, done that: > > > > http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/mgpm/ > > > > cheers > > lu

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-14 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 06:17:06 PDT Peter Pentchev wrote: Just as an aside, though - are you aware of Eric Meyer's S5, also available in your friendly neighbourhood Ports Collection as textproc/s5? :) Yet another alternative for creating presentations is misc/xsw. Or, if you're an old-scho

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-14 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 14 Jul 2010 at 12:54:20 PDT Charlie Kester wrote: On Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 06:17:06 PDT Peter Pentchev wrote: Just as an aside, though - are you aware of Eric Meyer's S5, also available in your friendly neighbourhood Ports Collection as textproc/s5? :) Yet another alternative for creatin

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-22 Thread Oliver Fromme
Ivan Voras wrote: > On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > > on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) > > For what it's worth, it doesn't work at all on Android :) (and the > layout is messed up) It works pretty well on

Re: an alternative to powerpoint

2010-07-24 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:19:25PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 07/13/10 06:15, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > Have fun, it would be great if you could report how it works > > > on fancy devices (iphone, ipad, androids...) > > > > For what it's worth, it doesn't work at