On 11 Nov 2010, at 14:17, John Hendy 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/

I've been using mindmaps as a presentation tool and have had very positive reactions from the audience.

- The overview is almost always in sight.

- It's easy to move to the next topic (you need software that can collapse and expand subtrees, most of them do)

- You can leave two or more topics open (depends on the size of course)

- It's easy to go back to a previous point.

- You can edit things if needed.

OK, that last point migh t not be a real benefit, but it is often refreshing to the audience, and it grabs the attention pretty well :-)