an alternative to powerpoint

[Peter Pentchev]

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.

G'luck,
Peter

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