maybe OT, but involves OOO its slideshow fmt, ``Impress''

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at 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



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