software for overhead projection

software for overhead projection

[RAYNER Peter]

Help help! I'm getting powerpoint envy ... Well not really.  I am,
though, looking for some of its functionality, i.e to project
overheads.  I'm imagining  myself at front of lecture with
speech-enabled laptop and overhead projector panel connected to video
output.  I have a file menu (probably using something like the
dired-mode  of emacspeak) which the members of the audience can't
see.   "visiting" a file feeds it to ghostscript or acroread or
something to display it on the panel.  
I foresee all kinds of problems with this, e.g. the emacspeak session
(or however we do this) has to be invisible, but it sounds like a task
for some interestingly devious hacking.  
Anyone done anything like this?  Have any ideas?
cheers
Peter Rayner 

software for overhead projection

[T. V. Raman]

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 <ray060@dar.csiro.au> 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



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