Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For my conference talks and corporate classes, I make my slides with a > home-grown piece of software, called 'txt2slides'. The software is a > big pile of hacks, but I'm very happy with it. txt2slides takes a > slide file, which is almost plain text, and turns it into a series of > HTML files, one per slide. > > The output is in HTML. Using HTML for the slides has a number of > major benefits:
And a whole list of drawbacks. Sorry, although I feel very much sympathy for this approach, and for lots of other related approaches like perlpoint, HTML is just not good enough. Why? Because it does not look nice. Font rendering is lousy, no good way to use graphics, limited styles. You always have to exactly find the place to click on to get to the next slide. Actually, it only looks acceptable with one specific browser on one specific platform that we want to avoid. So I decided to stick with PDF *). When I go for a training or presentation I take my notebook with me, but also a floppy containing the PDF files. If all else fails, I can download a copy from my web site. > Every computer has a web browser. Every computer has a PDF vieuwer. -- Johan *) My slides are generated using Perl programs that transform text into LaTeX. Then via PostScript to PDF. Other Perl programs manipulate the intermediate PostScript to create handouts, and so on.
