Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-12-06 Thread Matthew Butterick
BTW here's a web-based tool for making platform-independent presentations: https://revealjs.com/ Basically it's Markdown sources with some magic JS & CSS. So all of this could be wrapped in a Pollen layer. On Sunday, November 12, 2017 at 1:30:12 AM UTC-8, Gour wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Nov 2017

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-12 Thread Gour
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:45:51 -0800 Matthew Butterick wrote: > I should be a little clearer: it seems to me that a theme in your > questions across the years has been "is Pollen a turnkey solution for > X". My answer to this kind of question has always been (and will > remain)

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 11, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: > >> Though now, I think you will be happier with anything but Pollen. > > OK, thank you for clear input. I should be a little clearer: it seems to me that a theme in your questions across the years has been "is Pollen a

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Saša Janiška
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 07:56:20 -0800 Matthew Butterick wrote: > IIRC we had this discussion in Feb 2016: [...] > As I said then, "I think you will be happier with Scribble." Correct, but then I was not thinking about slide-shows, while now I have a educational project ahead of

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-11 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 10, 2017, at 11:58 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > > > What do you think whether Pollen is the right tool for the job? > > Let me add that besides slide presentation, I'd like to have same source > document to create handouts etc. IIRC we had this discussion in Feb

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-10 Thread Saša Janiška
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 09:49:55 -0800 Matthew Butterick wrote: > IIRC you did get an answer: > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-users/HKdGYNAVAJw/OfYIzG9LAQAJ > > "One thing that's not portable is the fonts that you use. You will > probably have to install the same fonts

Re: [pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-09 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 9, 2017, at 6:43 AM, Gour wrote: > > Has anyone thought about using Pollen for creating slide-show > presentation like Racket's slideshow presentations? > > One concern, besides creating slide-show itself is how one could select which > font(s) to use and/or being

[pollen] pollen for slide-show presentations

2017-11-09 Thread Gour
Has anyone thought about using Pollen for creating slide-show presentation like Racket's slideshow presentations? One concern, besides creating slide-show itself is how one could select which font(s) to use and/or being able to 'embed' presentation with desired fonts in order to make it portable