Re: Creating Presentations in Emacs (from text files)

[Joost Kremers]

Will Willis wrote:
> I'm attempting to put together a series of presentations for my co-workers.
> I'm looking for a way to generate a powerpoint-like slide deck from a text
> file. Something akin to org-mode style or even Muse as the input, and
> something like HTML slides or even a PDF as the output.
> I've got about 15 minutes of Muse experience under my belt. It might be what
> I'm looking for, but I'm not sure how to generate landscape PDF files, or
> even how to delineate in muse-mode where page breaks should be.

I don't think that's even possible with muse. Except of course by inserting
literal LaTeX commands.

> Another stumbling block I'm having is even getting muse to output pdf format
> (I'm on Windows).

Muse uses LaTeX to produce pdf, perhaps you don't have it installed?

> HTML output worked just fine, but I"m looking for
> something similar to S5, http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

I suspect with the proper configuration, you could get Muse to output files in
the s5 template. You'd have to customize muse-html-header(?) and set up a way to
let muse create the <div class="slide"> tags for you. (I did something similar
once, I could show you the code, but check the muse docs/mailing list first,
because it could be that muse has a generic div tag handler now, which might be
enough for you.

HTH

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