Presention software?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Bill Freeman <ke1g.nh at gmail.com> writes:
>
> 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.

I took a look at Beamer, actually--not because of or in spite of the TeX
aspect (I know enough TeX to be able to write texinfo, and going further
in probably wouldn't be a big deal), but because I saw that Emacs' org-mode
can be used to make slides via Beamer:

        http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html


I believe I first noticed that link (among others) in Sacha Chua's
`How to present using Org-mode in Emacs' article:

        http://sachachua.com/blog/2013/04/how-to-present-using-org-mode-in-emacs/


> 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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