Re: [Orgmode] epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs

[Eric S Fraga]

"Eric Schulte" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Phil Hagelberg recently introduced me to epresent.el by Tom Tromey.
> It's a very nice little utility for giving presentations using Emacs as
> the display engine.  Obviously I was aghast to learn that epresent
> didn't work with Org-mode documents.  I took the liberty of reworking it
> so that it runs off of Org-mode documents and uses Org-mode both to
> structure the presentation and to handle most of the fancy display
> elements.
>
> This re-working was mainly a series of quick hacks, and is certainly not
> "mature" in any way.  But I think it is usable in it's current state for
> running simple presentations, and thought it may be interesting or of
> use to people here.  If you're interested check out the example
> presentation included in the source code repository.
>
> http://github.com/eschulte/epresent
> (instructions in the README)
>
> Best -- Eric

This is brilliant!  Sure, it isn't going to replace beamer for me but
for quick and dirty presentations, this will be very very useful.

It seems to work very well out of the box (for me).  I haven't tried an
image yet but the latex definitely works well.

Thanks,
eric

PS - I'll be tracking that git repository!

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Eric S Fraga
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