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Look, I hate to point this out, but all presentation software sucks the
big one. They're either:
* Script based (Magicpoint, Axpoint, HTML based soltions), hence not
WYSIWYG, hence hateful as when presenting I need to tweak things
to look right and get an idea of what I'm doing while I'm editing it
not spend my life FIDDLING WITH DELIMITERS
* Have either no sense of global sytles (or in the case of Powerpoint,
very broken ones.)
Look, right, I want to type on the screen. When I want to enter a bullet
point I want to hit the keyboard shortcut for "bullet point" style. When
I want to write code examples I want to hit the keyboard shortcut for
"code" style. And I want to be able to change these all in one go later.
How hard is this?
Does any software do this? No. Powerpoint doesn't (it's just got some
really broken 'edit master slide view' mode that lets you change their
styles but give you no consistant way to switch between them or define new
styles) Keynote doesn't (and keynote's hateful anyway as it doesn't have
free viewing software.) Open Office is a PILE OF RANCID POO that goes
CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK and doesn't actually display at all reasonably on my
mac.
Of course it's possible that I've overlooked how to do this with my
software, but in that case it's hateful too for being so bloody hard to
use.
GAH. Suggestions (for once) really welcome.
Mark.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
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