an alternative to powerpoint

[Maxim Konovalov]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, 16:17+0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:15:14AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Maybe you all love powerpoint for presentations, but sometimes
> > one just needs to put together a few slides, perhaps a few bullets
> > or images grabbed around the net, so i was wondering how hard
> > would it be to do something that accepts a plain text file
> > as input (without a ton of formatting) and lets you do a decent
> > slide show, and supports editing the slides on the fly within
> > the browser.
> >
> > Well, it's not too hard:
> >
> > 	http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/sttp/
> >
> > just 400 lines of javascript and 100 lines of css, plus
> > your human-readable text.
>
> Nice work indeed!
>
> Just as an aside, though - are you aware of Eric Meyer's S5,
> also available in your friendly neighbourhood Ports Collection
> as textproc/s5? :)
>
> But yours does look a bit simpler to enter text in, although
> I myself am quite used to typing HTML.
>
+ misc/magicpoint.

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Maxim Konovalov