textalk - A wyxiwig presentation tool

Textalk is a LaTeX macro package plus perl script that converts LaTeX to HTML presentations. The LaTeX is converted to a GIF at screen resolution, so what you xdvi is what you get.

You can embed raw HTML in the LaTeX, so you can also embed movies and VRML models directly into the presentation.

Download

Download version 1.2 (October 2000)
Download version 1.1 (August 1999)

Installation

Unpack the tarfile, choose an installation directory (e.g. /my/dir) and type

    make install prefix=/my/dir

Usage

To make a skeleton talk in the current directory, use the init action:

    textalk init

This makes a file called talk.tex in the current directory.

To LaTeX the file, type

    textalk latex talk

To run xdvi at the appropriate size, use

    textalk xdvi talk

To generate the HTML, run

    textalk talk

Finally, the HTML to preview is in talk.textalk/index.html

Andrew Fitzgibbon

Last modified: Sun Aug 29 14:46:00 BST 1999