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MagicPoint:  A meta-presentation
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Chris Ball
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<chris@cpan.org> / <cball@ms.com>
http://printf.net/mgp/
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What else is there?


	Powerpoint
		Expensive, unstable, slow, hard to script

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	Staroffice
		All of the above, modulo expensive

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	PinPoint
		Presentations inside the GIMP
		No animations, slide guide, timings - just creates jpegs

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	AxPoint
		XML-based presentations with AxKit
		Saves to PDF
		Humans don't speak XML
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MagicPoint


	Uses text-based interpreted source files, cf. LaTeX

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	Documented mainly in Japanese, but with an English mailing list and manual

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	http://www.mew.org/mgp/
		"Simple presentations easy and complicated presentations possible"

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So, why use MagicPoint?


	Rapid development, can use XEmacs with mgp-mode.el
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		(or, uh, some other editor)
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		(like GNU Emacs)

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	Can use the UNIX toolchain
		grep, sed, cvs, perl!

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	Output to PostScript/PDF/HTML/text easily

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	Previous/next slide guide, on-screen countdown

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	Because I like it
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		And it's my talk
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Why not use MagicPoint?


	Simplistic page layout - you don't have complete control
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	No bounds checking
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	Limited animation/transitions/etc (is this bad?)
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	New markup language to learn

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	Tricky font configuration 
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MagicPoint control commands


	Begin a new page
		\%page
	Change font size to n
		\%size n
	Change the background colour
		\%back "colour"
	Change the text colour
		\%fore "colour"
	Insert an image
		\%image "/path/to/image.{jpg,png}"

	Others
		\%filter, \%system, \%pause
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Example MagicPoint slide


    \%page
    
    Hello
    
    <tab>Presentations are fun
    <tab><tab>Subpoint here
    
    <tab>I like jam

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Hello


	Presentations are fun
		Subpoint here

	I like jam

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Thank You!


	Questions?