>>>>> "MD" == Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MD> * I can be absolutely sure that no matter what kind of computer MD> equipment and software are available at the teaching site, I will be MD> able to display the slides with no trouble. i agree. MD> * I have the option of giving the presentation straight from my home MD> web server or from a local copy of the slides. When I want to put a MD> presentation on my web site, it's already in the right format. MD> Since the slides are separate HTML documents, that means lots more MD> documents for google to index, which means more people coming to MD> visit my web site. i have done presentations over the phone with the audience using HTML slides i made. works well. MD> * I don't have to suffer from the humiliation of standing up at MD> the Open Source Conference and using a Microsoft product to MD> display my slides. The OSC is full of Power Point presentations. MD> I don't know these people can do it; I wouldn't be able to face MD> myself in the mirror if I did that. hear! hear! MD> For a long time, I didn't make txt2slides available at all, because I MD> didn't want to support it. Finally I stuck a copy of it on my web MD> site. Some other folks have used it successfully. i looked at an earlier version of this and decided to roll my own. if you want it ask me for it. it autobuilds an index page, has foward and back links and i even made support for trees of pages but i found that was harder to navigate (shades of texinfo!). MD> * I updated the web site version mine isn't on the web but i could put it up there. it is not bad code and can be hacked easily. some may not like the html output but that is easily changed. also it has some odd quirly support for stuff like haiku's in a box and other things. MD> * I wrote a little bit of documentation none for me so far. MD> It comes with a complete example. It's a pile of junk, but it's a MD> very useful and successful pile of junk. Making slides is quick and MD> easy. I love using it and I like the way the slides come out. i like mine too and the input format is a simple text file with very simple markup. now, if llamacard ever came out, i might switch to it. but i haven't seen much of it since TPC4 and i heard seattle pm (spug?) took it over from damian's grad student who first developed it. uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com -- Stem is an Open Source Network Development Toolkit and Application Suite - ----- Stem and Perl Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding ---- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
