Elpoint: Yet another presentation tool on Emacsen

[Japanese | English]

Elpoint is a presentation tool which runs on Emacs.

What's New

2002/01/21 0.2.0 - Fixed bugs, Added outline processor.
2002/01/21 Registered to SourceForge.
2002/01/11 0.1.1 - Fixed bugs.
2002/01/08 0.1.0.

Features

Easy to create and display a presentation.
Dynamic presentation content can be developed using emacs lisp.
A major mode `ept-mode' is included which supports editing elpoint presentation.
Inline images. Images can be retrieved from Internet.
Create a presentation from outline-mode text.

Snapshot

Slide for BSD/Linux Day 2001

Requirements

Emacs 21
APEL
True Type font
Kochi font (gothic) is recommended. If you use `fonts.dir.xtt' included in the package(*1), emacs font setting for Elpoint is easy.

Download

Newest version is 0.2.0.
elpoint-0.2.0.tar.gz

Install

Extract tarball.
Type `make install'.

Usage

Add following line to your .emacs.

(require 'ept-setup)

If you installed kochi font using (*1), font setting is also done by above.

If you want to use a font other than kochi font, add following lines to your .emacs

(setq ept-use-kochi nil)
(require 'ept-setup)

and add your own font setting like ept-kochi-x.el. ept-setup is just a sample setting. You can also setup Elpoint without ept-setup.

Basically, presentations are written by emacs lisp. If you C-x C-f (find-file) a file with '.ept' suffix , the buffer becomes `ept-mode' (which is derived from emacs-lisp-mode).

Also, a simple presentation can be created from outline mode text.

See the sample presentations to know the presentation syntax of Elpoint.

There are some sample presentation files in the samples/ directory of the package.

sample.ept (Demonstration of Elpoint)
outline.txt (Demonstration of outline mode)
bsd-linux-day.ept (Sample presentation (In Japanese))

To play the sample presentation, enter M-x ept-play-file and input above filename.

Likewise, you can play them by entering M-x ept-play-buffer (C-c C-e for .ept file) in the buffer after find-file. the presentation starts from the page under the cursor point if you enter C-u M-x ept-play-buffer (C-u C-c C-e in .ept file).

CVS

See CVS document on SourceForge. modulename is "Elpoint" (Note that first letter 'E' is upper case).
ViewCVS is here.

TODO

Make a presentation from emacs-wiki
Antialiasing
Background image

Yuuichi Teranishi<teranisi@gohome.org>