Fwd: Presention software?

[Bill Freeman]

Appoligies to Josh.  I think the default reply too has changed for gmail,
but I'm probably just fumble fingered.

Bill

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From: Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: Presention software?
To: Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>


Just for completeness, I've done some presentations using PDFs made using
the Beamer package for LaTeX.  Sample here:
http://ke1g.org/media/uploads/files/egg_hunt.pdf .

Unless you know TeX/LaTeX (or want desperately to learn it), it is probably
not worth your time.  If you do want to try it, I could find you the source
for that presentation of another as reference.

Bill


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com>wrote:

> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
> >
> > I should have mentioned up front that I'd already actually
> > looked at S5 and decided against it. It looks like a good tool
> > for doing what it does, but what it does isn't what I want
> > (as far as I can tell from the examples). The same goes
> > for impress.js.
>
> ... and reveal.js, which was actually the one I was thinking of
> when I wrote "impress.js" :)
>
> (both of them actually seem to do what they do well enough, actually;
>  I'm just looking for something that does something else :))
>
>
> --
> "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))."
>
>
> > I don't want my in-person presentation to revolve around me
> > *reading the content of the slides* to my audience; I've always
> > hated watching other peoples presentations that are done like
> > that--I find myself asking `why are both of us wasting our time
> > with me sitting here waiting for you to finish reading the slides
> > to me when I could just read them myself?'. It always seems
> > like we could save an hour (multiplied by the number of people
> > at those presentation!) if we all just read the slides ourselves
> > and then convened afterward for *just the Q&A* portion....
> >
> > I want to put together something more like, I guess, this
> > `remedies for frustration' presentation by Martin Pool:
> >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awg1CHM1w128iOBp_JOxE2DgHfywBeyjDe2bkx1vfVQ/edit?pli=1#slide=id.p
> >
> > ... or a presentation that Larry Lessig gave but that I can't
> > find right now.
> >
> > The slides are just illustrations for text/speech; rather than
> > the text/speech being `narration for the slides'.
> >
> > But:
> >
> >     * when I give the talk in person, I need notes (outside
> >       of the slides) to guide me through the topics.
> >       I might as well store those *in the presentation*
> >       somehow, even though they'll be *outside the slides*.
> >
> >     * When I post it on my website, I'll the `notes'
> >       or narration will *need* to be included in the
> >       packaged presentation, otherwise the slides won't
> >       make any sense.
> >
> > Ideally, because of the `slides as illustrations for the speech
> > vs. speech as narration for the slides' issue, I'd like to have
> > slide-sequences subordinate to notes rather than the other way
> > around--because there are some things where I'd really prefer
> > to be able to flip through several slides for a single paragraph
> > (or even sentence) of speech.
> >
> > (for example, 3 slides for "Powerpoint is.... Hurting. Communication.")
> >
> > It looks like some of the Emacs org-mode-based options might
> > allow for that (not sure yet); is there *anything* [else?]
> > that will actually give me what I want? If not, how close
> > can I get?
> >
> > Alternately: I heard someone say, a while back, that `Tufte
> > should realise that, good or bad, Powerpoint has one--so
> > it's time to stop hating and start *co-opting*'. But how?
> >
> >
> > "Greg Rundlett (freephile)" <greg at freephile.com> writes:
> > >
> > > +1 Eric Meyer's s5 is good.
> > >
> > > My notes on the subject
> > > https://freephile.org/wiki/index.php/Presentation
> > >
> > > Greg Rundlett
>
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