From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9a992bcf07fd38831ec7e299b80d4b84@terzarima.net> References: <1c27291f-5f87-42e6-8f3f-d4b68bb18250@26g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <9a992bcf07fd38831ec7e299b80d4b84@terzarima.net> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:14:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130908201014t1afb446cm9a498f7d1e2e3d57@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] make slides in plan 9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4f35d1da-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Charles Forsyth wr= ote: > 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 > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- burble > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- more burble > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0- 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. > >