Re: [dev] slides with troff (was: Talk about sane web browsers)

I have always used troff to generate really nice 4:3 landscape slides,
but that is on Plan 9, I should put my macros and some examples in
http://repo.cat-v.org but it really is not rocket science.

uriel

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:53 PM, markus schnalke<meillo_AT_marmaro.de> wrote:
> [2009-09-07 01:27] Uriel <lost.goblin_AT_gmail.com>
>>
>> Troff works great for generating slides.
>
> How?
>
> For me, (computer presentation) slides are pages in 4:3 landscape
> format.
>
> Unfortunately, I've not managed yet to generate such documents.
>
> `.pl 5i' lets the formated text only go half the page down, but the
> resulting PS file is in usual paper format (A4 or letter) though. Is
> this a basic property of PS?
>
>
> The best result (still unsatisfying) is:
>
> 1) generating with `.pl 5i' to use only the upper half of the pages
> 2) rotate and scale with `pstops' to have this upper half turned left
>   and in full size
> 3) rotate the document on display again
>
> It's still not 4:3 but A4 landscape, and I need to rotate on
> presentation.
>
>
> Is there no way to get pages that are 8i x 6i?
>
>
> meillo
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