[Sheflug] Presentation software [was: Open Office]

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> If anyone knows a tool that works like PowerPoint for Linux,
    Will> do tell.

Depends on what you mean "works like".  If you want WYSIWYG via GUI
input, none I know of.

What I use for presentation software is one of three things depending
on context.

  o LaTeX (sliTeX) -> xdvi or -> dvips -> gv.  OK, make that four.
  o Magicpoint.  The workhorse.  Nice features include swallowing
    arbitrary X windows.  Ugly features include the formatting
    language, which doesn't help you with length of screen (it just
    truncates) and requires fine-tuning vertical spacing; also depends
    on whitespace.
  o Ultrapoint.  When the input (XML) matters more than the output
    (very slow and crash-prone).  ;-)


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