I have always used troff to generate really nice 4:3 landscape slides, but that is on Plan 9, I should put my macros and some examples in http://repo.cat-v.org but it really is not rocket science.
uriel On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:53 PM, markus schnalke<mei...@marmaro.de> wrote: > [2009-09-07 01:27] Uriel <lost.gob...@gmail.com> >> >> Troff works great for generating slides. > > How? > > For me, (computer presentation) slides are pages in 4:3 landscape > format. > > Unfortunately, I've not managed yet to generate such documents. > > `.pl 5i' lets the formated text only go half the page down, but the > resulting PS file is in usual paper format (A4 or letter) though. Is > this a basic property of PS? > > > The best result (still unsatisfying) is: > > 1) generating with `.pl 5i' to use only the upper half of the pages > 2) rotate and scale with `pstops' to have this upper half turned left > and in full size > 3) rotate the document on display again > > It's still not 4:3 but A4 landscape, and I need to rotate on > presentation. > > > Is there no way to get pages that are 8i x 6i? > > > meillo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFKpWTB6aFpZ+X9qBIRAobSAKCPs6AzCzDez7QQhExFuca8550I9wCfd6yn > QUKtH+MKIVxP2ZABRDvdiJA= > =4fT2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
