Oh and other tools I'm aware of: 1. PerlPoint -
http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/lecture/Pres-Tools/Perl-Point/ Which is a self-documenting lecture made by it (that includes the source). Translates into HTML, or LaTeX from the same source. Very brief input (which I very much liked). Creates some quirky HTML, but still quite usable (reminds me that I should write pp2xhtml ASAP). 2. DocBook - http://www.docbook.org/ Contains a slide presentor that can translate DocBook/XML into a multitude of formats: HTML, TeX, Word RTF, etc. Very verbose, though. 3. Also check: http://www.perl.org.il/20021107.html Apparently in Israel alone, at least 5 people have wrote their own presentation tools in Perl and at least one in zsh, and another one in Python. I'm not sure how usable are any of these. 4. This link: http://www.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2002-October/000510.html contains links to many other slide creators, none of them were used by people I know. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Orna Agmon wrote: > > > Hello people, > > > > I have updated http://www.haifux.org/givelecture.html to include a list of > > tools which create free-format presentations. Where I knew, I included a > > link to a lecture with both outcome and source, to set an example. > > > > I guess not all the examples I found were the best we can get (one of > > them is mine...), since some are very simple, and it is not > > always good to learn from a very simple example. > > > > I would appreciate it if you recommended the tools you use yourselves, and > > /or supplied sources for lectures you gave in Haifux (and are now > > presented only as PDF/ PS), for the sake of future lecturers in Haifux. > > > > I will soon upload the source for my "Basic Use" slides. The source of my > "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" lecture is already online on Quad-Pres' > site, but it is a less sophisticated lecture. > > A few comments on the existing page: > > 1. s/postsccript/postscript/ > > 2. I would not recommend MagicPoint if I were you. It creates huge > Post-Script files and its HTML output is lacking (either plaintext without > any markup or huge GIFs). If you like using it fine, but I think it's a > sub-standard tool. > > The OpenOffice/KOffice tools provide a viable alternative for it if you > want a WYSIWYG slides creator, and LaTeX is more than enough for the > non-WYSIWYG crowd. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > Thanks, > > > > Orna. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > > An apple a day will keep a doctor away. Two apples a day will keep two > doctors away. > > Falk Fish > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ An apple a day will keep a doctor away. Two apples a day will keep two doctors away. Falk Fish -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
