Re: org-mode and htmlslidy

From: Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com>
To: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-mode and htmlslidy
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:58:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=2TT5ZuVaKWgpjCKXxA4-Vih5AArGZ73SxC77A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=1wa5GOqjwgad097_L6Yq2MVnRbpEOQ3WxZtqc@mail.gmail.com>

If you want scrolling, why don't you simply make a presentation using
HTML with Org-mode? I mean, just show someone a webpage or two?

Please understand I'm only curious, not hostile. To me, I just don't
see why you'd want to combine presentations and scrolling... to me,
the advantage of presentations is their fixed size. It forces me to
focus on key points due to the limited real estate on each slide.

Why not just make an outline in HTML (with all the pretty charts and
graphs inserted) and project your talking points on a screen?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does beamer and impressive support scrolling? I assume not as beamer is
> LaTeX based which also uses fixed paper size. The paradigm of fixed size
> slides is imho a remnant from a time when slides were "hardware" and placed
> on a overhead projector. I see no reason why shouldn't be able to scroll a
> long slide during a presentation if you can't fit it all on a single screen
> full.
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 15:17, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In looking for the perfect slide show generation from org-mode I have so
>>> far checked the following and found that they have serious problems:
>>>
>>> epresenter - Keyboard gets stuck, little control over display.
>>> org-s5 - No support for pages overflowing, e.g. when showing a long
>>> slides I would like to scroll
>>
>> What about beamer? To date I haven't found anything I like as much! It
>> just seems to do about everything... even if that means hunting down the
>> occasional obscure code to force it to do my will!
>> You can combine it with impressive! and do some fantastic things during
>> presentations: http://impressive.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> John
>
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