[9fans] make slides in plan 9

[9fans] make slides in plan 9

[xiangyu]

Hi, everyone:
     How to make slides in plan 9 ? I always use ConTeXt in linux, but
it doesn't contained  in the TeX  distrbutions that plan 9 provides.
so how to make slides in plan 9 ? I'm looking forward  for the
answer......thanks first !!

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[hugo rivera]

I have no idea about tex on plan 9, but I've always used beamer on
linux, maybe it's included on plan 9.

2009/8/17, xiangyu <xiantingmanbu@gmail.com>:
> Hi, everyone:
>      How to make slides in plan 9 ? I always use ConTeXt in linux, but
>  it doesn't contained  in the TeX  distrbutions that plan 9 provides.
>  so how to make slides in plan 9 ? I'm looking forward  for the
>  answer......thanks first !!
>
>


--
Hugo

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[Steve Simon]

How to make slides in plan 9

rsc has an example /n/sources/rsc/talk/*

I have used the usenix-era troff foils macros quite often recently.
/n/sources/contrib/steve/foils.tgz

TeX is available seperately - created a contrib package for it or
there is an iso (which has bitrotted a little but is still usable).
Beware: downloading it will take a long time (hours).

% contrib/list -v steve/tex
steve/tex:
	Description:
		TeX, metafont, metapost fonts etc, circa 1998

		This TeX package was built in the labs in 2000.  I have recompiled it
		and packaged it as a contrib, however TeX is under continual
		development and the package could be updated to current release.  I
		don't use TeX so I have no idea if this is a good idea or not and it
		would require effort I would rather put elsewhere.

		Steve Simon Dec 2007
	Contents: 109.13Mb in 7309 files
	Modified: Fri Jun 19 06:57:06 GMT 2009
	Depends:

-Steve

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[Joel C. Salomon]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Steve Simon<steve@quintile.net> wrote:
> TeX is available seperately - created a contrib package for it or
> there is an iso (which has bitrotted a little but is still usable).
> Beware: downloading it will take a long time (hours).

The last time this came up, I did some research into the dependencies
of the newer TeX engines (XeTeX, pdfTex, luaTeX).  Seems they all
depend on a PDF-manipulation library written in C++.  But so long as
you stick to the tex | dvips | ghostscript route, there's some really
nice stuff that's been done in the last ten years in TeX that can be
ported to Plan 9.

—Joel

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[Benjamin Newman]

Hello

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 at 13:23:42 +0000, xiangyu wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone:
>      How to make slides in plan 9 ? I always use ConTeXt in linux, but
> it doesn't contained  in the TeX  distrbutions that plan 9 provides.
> so how to make slides in plan 9 ? I'm looking forward  for the
> answer......thanks first !!
>

Uriel has troff macros in /n/sources/contrib/uriel/slides/.  There is
also mv(6), documented at /n/sources/contrib/pietro/mv.pdf and twb(6),
documented at http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/manual.pdf as
twb(9.1).

Benjamin

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[andrey mirtchovski]

looking at my archives, i seem to have used \documentclass[slidesonly,
semlayer]{seminar} for slide creation some time in the past. no idea
whether it still works :)

sample:

\begin{slide}\heading{Why Plan 9?}
\begin{itemize}
	\item Distributed OS
	\item Service Oriented
	\item Provides Grid-like functionality in a single administrative domain
	\item Simplicity, Clarity, Generality
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[Charles Forsyth]

i use html, then any browser will do, even ie6 for most things.
i use an rc script and awk to take an outline format such as
	- burble
		- more burble
		- even more burble
with some other conventions to allow embedded code fragments.
it's obviously easy to link to other things to allow diversions
and connect to expanded information on the rare instances that
anyone is awake enough to ask about them. the same script can generate
a summary of the slides in troff as handouts.

since there are drawbacks to the powerpoint approach, even without cruft
like clip art and transitions, i often simply
write ordinary troff (-ms or -mpm), and then i can
use pic, grap, eqn, tbl as needed.

Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9

[J.R. Mauro]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Charles Forsyth<forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> i use html, then any browser will do, even ie6 for most things.
> i use an rc script and awk to take an outline format such as
>        - burble
>                - more burble
>                - even more burble
> with some other conventions to allow embedded code fragments.
> it's obviously easy to link to other things to allow diversions
> and connect to expanded information on the rare instances that
> anyone is awake enough to ask about them. the same script can generate
> a summary of the slides in troff as handouts.
>
> since there are drawbacks to the powerpoint approach, even without cruft

More people need to read Edward Tufte. Slideshows generally just
detract from what you're doing. Use a projector for things like
images, tables, etc.

> like clip art and transitions, i often simply
> write ordinary troff (-ms or -mpm), and then i can
> use pic, grap, eqn, tbl as needed.
>
>