From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB2FC2F136 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:14:36 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id eALGEaY05140 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:14:36 -0500 Received: from localhost.earthlink.net (s2.almaden.ibm.com [198.4.83.37]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id eALGEZD05136 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:14:35 -0500 Received: (from raman@localhost) by localhost.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA21495; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:14:29 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.earthlink.net: raman set sender to raman@localhost.earthlink.net using -f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14874.40805.696226.731284@localhost.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:14:29 -0800 To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: software for overhead projection In-Reply-To: <14873.63423.923420.483347@pjr2-as.dar.csiro.au> References: <14873.63423.923420.483347@pjr2-as.dar.csiro.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.84 under Emacs 20.6.1 From: "T. V. Raman" X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion Prepare your slides in latex convert them to good looking pdf and leave the button clicking to some photon-enabled mouse-waving human. If you really want to click the buttons yourself, then run emacspeak under X, and spend some time hacking your favorite window manager to send the next button click when you push the appropriate key. >>>>> "RAYNER" == RAYNER Peter writes: RAYNER> Help help! I'm getting powerpoint envy ... Well RAYNER> not really. I am, though, looking for some of RAYNER> its functionality, i.e to project overheads. RAYNER> I'm imagining myself at front of lecture with RAYNER> speech-enabled laptop and overhead projector RAYNER> panel connected to video output. I have a file RAYNER> menu (probably using something like the RAYNER> dired-mode of emacspeak) which the members of RAYNER> the audience can't see. "visiting" a file feeds RAYNER> it to ghostscript or acroread or something to RAYNER> display it on the panel. I foresee all kinds of RAYNER> problems with this, e.g. the emacspeak session RAYNER> (or however we do this) has to be invisible, but RAYNER> it sounds like a task for some interestingly RAYNER> devious hacking. Anyone done anything like RAYNER> this? Have any ideas? cheers Peter Rayner RAYNER> _______________________________________________ RAYNER> Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@redhat.com RAYNER> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@cs.cornell.edu WWW: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/ PGP: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/raman/raman.asc