[OSX-Users] Re: prezi

[Philip Boulain]

Luke wrote:
> Basic concept seems to be to replace a linear sequence of slides...

I've been out of the game a few years, but given how many hypertext 
types lurk here, I feel *one* of us should point out that the sole 
navigational paradigm still seems to be a completely linear trail---it's 
just got glitzy transitions around it. [1]

On 12/02/2014 13:05, David Tarrant wrote:
> Agree with the headache. I personally use reveal.js instead which is free, but you need to write the code.

If we're talking our personal preferences for generating presentations, 
I swear by Beamer, since LaTeX is the language of serious academic 
discourse. ;)

http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf

On Debianlikes, you can probably find it in the package "latex-beamer". 
I wouldn't be surprised if MacTeX includes it, since it's fairly 
standard, and I think in TeX Live when distros don't carve it up. (I 
certainly used it on my Mac way back when and don't remember having to 
jump through any hoops to do so.)

Phil
1. The idea of a non-linear presentation actually reminds me of an old 
version of Inkscape, or maybe Sodipodi, which did its help file as one 
big SVG you could zoom into sections of to get from reference materal to 
more and more detailed help. Kind of a spatial adaptive hypertext, I 
guess. Pretty neat, but sadly I can't find any trace of it any more.

(I guess something hypercard-for-presentations-y might work if you had a 
high level of audience involvement, being half-driven by questions from 
the floor...? At a basic level, a presentation whose ordering and 
inclusion of sections can be deferred until you're giving it by 
following different paths instead of having to scrub madly back and 
forth through it would be interesting if the presenter could handle the 
extra mental load. [Just don't base it on ZZstructures...])