From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: epresent and Org-mode: using Emacs to run presentations of Org-mode docs Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:27:31 -0600 Message-ID: <87d3qtbp3g.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87iq0mv104.fsf@gmail.com> <81ocaecign.fsf@gmail.com> <87d3qudjhi.fsf@gmail.com> <81mxpxeozc.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=44676 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBgZ1-0004X6-Td for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:27:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBgZ0-00087J-Gl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:27:39 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:57511) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBgZ0-00087F-A6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:27:38 -0400 Received: by ywl5 with SMTP id 5so1402692ywl.0 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:27:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <81mxpxeozc.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:31:43 +0530") 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: Jambunathan K Cc: Tom Tromey , Org Mode , Phil Hagelberg Jambunathan K writes: > "Eric Schulte" writes: > >> Jambunathan K writes: >> >>> "Eric Schulte" 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) >>>> >>> >>> I think (require 'org-exp) is required. >>> >> >> do you know what for? >> > > This is the trace I got otherwise. (See the trace at the end of the mail) > Thanks, It's now requiring org-exp and org-latex. > >>> >>> Looks like it walks you through the headline one at a time and >>> presents the entry contents as such. >>> >> >> yes >> > > And it fontifies the headlines in bold fonts just as in slides (actually > too big for my NetBook). > in newer Emacs C-- and C-+ should be usable to adjust the font sizes. > > Yesterday when I did a quick run the presentation was insipid and I > didn't get to see the big slide-like fonts. Honestly, I was a bit > surprised at why others were wowing. > > I ran the presentation today right after also doing a C-c C-e d (for > verifying Thomas' bug report on LaTeX internal links) and I see the > altered behaviour. I do think it is pretty impressive. > > I think loading the org-latex.el makes this difference. > >>> >>> When I get to the equations slide what should I expect to see? The >>> equation fully rendered (as in text books) or just the markup (as it is >>> literally typed). >>> >> >> I see an image overlay of the latex fragment. Is that not what you see? >> > > No I don't see any overlays. I will investigate the problem sometime > later. Possible that it has something to do with ltxpng or missing image > libraries. > hmm, this uses the same machinery used to display latex previews in regular Org-mode buffers (callable with C-c C-x C-l), so if that works this should work, and vice versa, but I believe this does require some special commands be available on your system (e.g. dvipng). Best -- Eric > > Jambunathan K. >