Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:16:44 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress'' Message-ID: <20090424201644.GA69617@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20090422072312.GA92118@thought.org> <1240414705.73519.12.camel@pukruppa.net> <20090423213624.GA27972@thought.org> <20090424104852.a092d816.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into > > slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM > > page website that will get me going.? > > For a "real slideshow" in terms of projected presentation, > maybe you want to check the foiltex package (port: textproc/foiltex) > and create a PDF file with it, using LaTeX. The advantage > is that it can be easily turned into plain text if needed > (e. g. for speech synthesis). Along with xpdf (also from > the ports), you can do: This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer. I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice; unfortunately, commercial. > > % xpdf -fullscreen <presentation> > > If you want the slides HTML based, an option would be to > create a script that reads the "big" HTML source and splits > it into "small" slides with less text, according to a template. > But I think it's still neccessary to put hands on it to get > things like document structure right. > You're right, and thanks to you, Uli, and Andrew noted. Looks like the slideshow/ppt/impress method won't be the way to go. I've checked out the PresentationZen site and have a better idea how this kind of presentation works. I need some other means of reaching folks. gary > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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