Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Arthur Miller <address@hidden> writes:

> What do you mean with slides? Presentations? You can already do
> slides-like stuff in org-mode, not as advanced as in Impress, but enough
> for many situations. Some presentations are done via pdf-files which you
> can show from Emacs. You could even use images to create a slide-show
> mimicking a presentation. Or what features do you have in mind?

FYI: Nowadays you are able to accomplish more refined presentations with
LaTeX and the presentation package Beamer (among others) than all the
Office Applications.

You can do all the modern, fancy presentation stuff and moreover
including animations, videos and 3D objects (OK only Adobe Reader
supports 3D at the moment).

> For some more advanced graphical features Emacs would need better
> renderer, ability to display (and script) some graphics, layouting etc.

I suggest to use the LaTeX Tikz package for doing the graphics.  It has
also the advantage that the graphical fonts are consistent with the text
and mathematics.

  http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/

> Why is that important for Emacs? I haven't personally opened an "office"
> app for years, unless I had to do something for a customer. I think
> good

The same here, even in my company I'm using org-mode LaTeX exports for
reports and presentations.

> text editor like Emacs is more then fine for most needs. I think people
> "need" office apps mostly because of marketing not because they really
> need it, especially nowdays when we don't print so much like we did 20
> years ago or so. I might be biased here though, it is just my reflection.

I'm not sure.  Could it be that the majority of people are not really
capable to work in abstract ways (like programming)?  I observe that
most of my colleagues and acquaintances are not willing or are hardly
able to operate programs without "visual guidance".  For example our
designers are rather using the mouse cascading into menus instead of
memorising and applying predefined keyboard shortcuts!

     Dieter
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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany