What's the equivalent for emacs?
AuCTeX+LaTeX+Beamer
Yes, and then use doc-present:
Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
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Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#22Even though I really love my vim, i think sometimes it's ok to just go with LibreOffice or PowerPoint. nice job though!
I love vim too. Vim isn't the right tool for presentations. Then again, I find that PowerPoint or LibreOffice are just as bad.
I write all my presentations in LaTeX and use Beamer. Haven't found a better tool for the job (for my purposes).
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#23My fear with this is that it will be less "bullet proof" than creating a PDF slidedeck. With this I'll have to worry about getting the fontsize correct on the projector, which means I have to worry about getting a terminal set up on whichever computer I may be using for a presentation (hopefully my own, but I can't count on that) and (in the case that it isn't my own) I have to worry about networking too.
With a PDF slidedeck I can have the PDF on my computer, on the network, and on a flashdrive, I don't have to worry about presentation software compatibility or installing Gvim+plugins or putty, I don't have to worry about font-size, etc.
If I could be absolutely sure that the presentation was going to be given from my computer, then I think this would be great.
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#24Was doing a little presentation on hacker culture at my office and I used vim instead of ppt. That was part of the things I wanted to say.
I didn't use buffers however, I just used a custom page breaks and a search trick like "search and jump ten lines below".
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#25Even though I really love my vim, i think sometimes it's ok to just go with LibreOffice or PowerPoint. nice job though!
I love vim too. Vim isn't the right tool for presentations. Then again, I find that PowerPoint or LibreOffice are just as bad. I write all my presentations in LaTeX and use Beamer. Haven't found a better tool for the job (for my purposes).
In case you didn't know, Org-mode in Emacs has support for export to Beamer. It frees you up from needing to use LaTeX at all:
http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/tutorial.html
Probably not reason enough to learn Org-mode, but good to know if you know the Org-mode basics. (Basics of Org-mode are simple but it can get pretty complicated b/c so many features.)
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. I am a vim fanboy, but I don't see myself using this. Presentation is about how best you can convey an idea, and I don't see this being flexible enough to help me do that.
The only upside I can see, is that if you are updating very often a presentation while collaborating with someone else, it is easy to keep it under git.
or you could collaborate your presentation using 3d. that also would be easy to track under github.
Re: Vimdeck - Vim as a presentation tool
#27My fear with this is that it will be less "bullet proof" than creating a PDF slidedeck. With this I'll have to worry about getting the fontsize correct on the projector, which means I have to worry about getting a terminal set up on whichever computer I may be using for a presentation (hopefully my own, but I can't count on that) and (in the case that it isn't my own) I have to worry about networking too. With a PDF…
To be honest, when I made Vimdeck, it was mostly just-for-fun. I never really expected that other people would seriously consider using it for their presentations.
Now that I've seen how many people are interested in it, though, I might spend some time adding more features to it to make it a more viable option.
As you pointed out, there's not a great way to take this format and use it on someone else's machine.
First, I'd like to point out that all Vimdeck is doing is generating files into a directory and opening them with VIM. There are a few VIM plugins as dependencies. Like markdown syntax highlighting, and SyntaxRange, but it's entirely possible that I could allow the users to bundle their presentation as a zip file, put it on a flash drive and open it on any other computer (most have VIM already installed).
There's no Gvim necessary. Just a couple of plugins and the dynamically generated VIM script. Seems plausible to be able to bundle all that into a machine-agnostic format. VIM already runs everywhere.
And as far as the font size goes, you're right. There's no way around it. You're going to have to increase/decrease the font size immediately before the presentation to get it just right. But there's often a chance for speakers to test that their slides work in the current environment any ways.
I'm not saying text-only ASCII-art-ridden presentations are the best way to present information. But depending on the crowd and the speaker, it might be worth it.