From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: Re: epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:43:16 -0600 Message-ID: <87r5fac4v6.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87iq0mv104.fsf@gmail.com> <80ocae6rqa.fsf@mundaneum.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57652 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBbFR-0005CG-Hi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:47:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBbFQ-0001wA-72 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:47:05 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:41380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBbFQ-0001w2-1u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:47:04 -0400 Received: by iwn38 with SMTP id 38so2025666iwn.0 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:47:03 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien?= Vauban Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Seb, S=C3=A9bastien Vauban writes: > Hi Eric, > > "Eric Schulte" wrote: >> 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 dis= play >> 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 o= ff >> of Org-mode documents and uses Org-mode both to structure the presentati= on >> 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 us= e 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) > > Just a typo in README: present.org, instead of presentation.org. > Thanks fixed. > > Quite promising for the rest, really! Thanks once again, for all > add-ons you provide us with... > Thanks, all credit goes to Carsten for making Org-mode so much fun to extend. > > On the glitches side: > I'm sure there are still some bugs. I definitely want to introduce this more as "something that may be fun" rather than "supported software". > > - some titles are truncated because of their size > - I did not see any image I'll take a look, I don't think I ever tested with an image (aside from the LaTeX preview image). >=20 > - Beamer's frame level is not supported (ending up with a couple of > really long slides) This is one of those things that I don't think I'll ever really want to implement as it begins to go beyond the complexity of what I consider a simple tool. > - having to scroll within a slide seems to edit the Org file somehow My guess is that widening and narrowing the buffer is re-setting the "edited" state of the buffer, but I can't say for sure. > - "edited" Org file is not undo-able because of visibility troubles Yea, epresent hides the cursor and the echo area, which makes any sort of editing or navigation aside form using the built in functions a pain. Maybe if scroll was bound to space-bar this could be fixed. >=20 > - error "outline-back-to-heading: before first heading" > When does this happen? > > But, once again, it gives a lot of hope to get right to the point of > loosing a less time as possible, and lets us work on the contents of > our file. > Here's hoping. Cheers -- Eric > > Best regards, > Seb