Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-13 Thread Chris Nandor
Just another me-too: http://dev.macperl.org/files/scripts/makeslides It produces valid XHTML with customizable CSS and LINK REL goodies etc. e.g.: http://pudge.net/macperl/tpc/2001/tpc_2001_presentation/ -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://pudge.net/ Ope

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-13 Thread Jochen Stenzel
Hello, all, of course I subscribed because I'm training Perl occasionally. Having said this, maybe I can add a few informations about the current implementation of PerlPoint which addresses various needs mentioned in this thread. As Johan said, there's a new version which is based on Tom's origin

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:12:33PM -0800, Tim Maher/CONSULTIX wrote: > So we use (brace yourselves) MS-Word, having standardized on it in the > late 80s, when UNIX-based solutions were limited to troff (which we still > use to print Lab Exercises). Then we render it in PDF for projection, > which

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Tim Maher/CONSULTIX
I agree completely with Johan; despite the conveniences of HTML, we don't find it adequate to our needs. Apart from getting marginally attractive large characters on a projection screen, which can usually be achieved with some degree of effort on any computer platform, we also want the *printed

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Uri Guttman
> "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 optio

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Johan Vromans
Mark-Jason Dominus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, Tom wrote perlpoint, and it's very nice. I've used it for > several hours' worth of material. But I don't think it's as flexible > as txt2slides is now. It is faster, however. I think brian refers to the 'new' perlpoint, not Tom's version:

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Johan Vromans
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

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Clinton A . Pierce
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:23:29PM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Mark-Jason Dominus) wrote: > > For my conference talks and corporate classes, I make my slides with a > > home-grown piece of software, called 'txt2slides'. The software is a > >

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread Mark-Jason Dominus
> we hacked up an XML version of the slides, That sounds like a nasty lot of typing. > Perlpoint, a similar program, does about the same thing the this > or txt2slides does, Yes, Tom wrote perlpoint, and it's very nice. I've used it for several hours' worth of material. But I don't think it

Re: Slide-manufacturing software

2001-12-12 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark-Jason Dominus) wrote: > 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 > sl