On 10/14/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He'd replaced the MagicPoint presentation with S5, and had a few
technical issues with getting it to behave, but persevered.
This turned out to mostly be the alternate theme I picked, which
apparently is buggy. Switching back to the stock S5
Ben Scott wrote:
On 10/14/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
He'd replaced the MagicPoint presentation with S5, and had a few
technical issues with getting it to behave, but persevered.
This turned out to mostly be the alternate theme I picked, which
apparently is buggy. Switching
Ted Roche wrote:
I took a look at the slides, because I know you had some troubles with
the way the layout looked and behaved, and I felt bad for recommending
S5 if it gave you so much trouble, and I think I found the source of
some of those problems: the main slide file has to be XHTML 1.0
On 10/24/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... the main slide file has to be XHTML 1.0 Strict ...
I'm not sure it does.
Like I said, I found that switching back to the default theme
(instead of the third-party theme I had found) seemed to fix most of
the problems I had. It may be
Ben Scott wrote:
On 10/24/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... the main slide file has to be XHTML 1.0 Strict ...
I'm not sure it does.
Like I said, I found that switching back to the default theme
(instead of the third-party theme I had found) seemed to fix most of
the
Kent Johnson wrote:
So, is there a better way to author S5 than being really, really careful
while writing XHTML by hand and using an XHTML validator a lot?
I would think an editor that knows about XHTML so that it creates the
/li when you create the li tag would help a lot. I mostly
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:03 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote:
Ted Roche wrote:
I took a look at the slides, because I know you had some troubles with
the way the layout looked and behaved, and I felt bad for recommending
S5 if it gave you so much trouble, and I think I found the source of
some
Ted Roche wrote:
I would think an editor that knows about XHTML so that it creates the
/li when you create the li tag would help a lot. I mostly hand-code
my HTML (I know, how last century!), so I'm used to it.
Me too, actually; maybe I'm making too big of a deal out of it.
Failing this,
Ted Roche wrote:
But PowerPoint? PowerPoint kills, man. (Well, PowerPoint doesn't kill
people. People using PowerPoint kill people. But, still...)
Kent Johnson wrote:
??
Sorry, ramblings of an old PowerPoint junkie. I once paid a lot of money
to attend a conference taken over by M$ who
Kent Johnson wrote:
I have been uniformly un-Impressed with OO on Mac OSX. Writer is clunky,
I have had problems interoperating with MS Word (and whatever you think
of MS Word, sometimes that is a real requirement) and Calc is unusably
slow even on a reasonably fast machine. Oh, and X11
On 10/24/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But Edward R. Tufte's essay on The
Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, (which I can leap up from my desk and
lay my hands on instantly) is a must-read for everyone who wants to
understand how to convey information.
Going back on-topic for this
Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, is there a better way to author S5 than being really, really careful
while writing XHTML by hand and using an XHTML validator a lot?
Use emacs:
http://elpoint.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/goby/index.html.en
I have no idea how
Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben had to find the Boy Scout meeting and the girls volleyball
practices before finding us.
One would have thought that Ben could have enlisted the aid of said
Boy Scouts to assist... Unless, they *and* he were subsequently
delayed at the *next* location :)
A great meeting Thursday night. Thirteen people made it to the October
meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, held as usual at the SAU
#1 offices in Peterborough on the second Thursday at 7 PM. Thanks to Ken
for sponsoring us at the offices, and dealing diplomatically with the
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