Hi Brad,

I am willing to share any progress I make. I'm still getting my head around the basics of the platform at the moment.

My main interest is in adding useful animating effects in scientific talks. (highlighting variables, animating proof steps etc) so I care a lot about how mathematical equations can be typeset and how that layout can be morphed to good effect.

One possibility I will look into is latex -> dvi -> svg -> ??
what is '??'
possibilities are:
 1. Squeak svg interpreter (I guess this already exists)
 2. Squeak layout objects which I can manipulate with an animation library.

What are you trying to build? Is there a website I could look at?

-Ben


Brad Fuller wrote: 
Benedict Kavanagh wrote:
  
Hello all,

I work on Linux. I know smalltalk reasonably well. I don't know the 
Squeak 2D Apis. I am interested in using Squeak as a platform to develop 
more engaging slideshow presentations. My talks are normally about 
formal  methods in programming language semantics. I'm tired of the 
tedium of slides produced by beamer.

I saw the keynote by Alan Kay in 2004 at OOPSLA.  I want to make 
presentations like that.  Can anyone confirm that the slides for that 
talk were written in Squeak?

The Sophie project is a close fit for what I want. I was just wondering 
if there was any other work written  in Squeak that I could look at that 
relates to my goal.  In particular I would be interested in any 
presentations/slide shows that were written in Squeak as one-offs to see 
roughly how much is required for a  'from scratch'  slide show as I 
generally prefer to sit on top of my own code when possible.

Is there a FAQ about this topic?

  
    
hey ben. I've started a project to do just that. if you are a
programmer, maybe we could collaborate.

Im also interested in what others have to say about your questions.


(please ignore typing mistakes. just had rt. shoulder surgery im
rt-handed. what a pain to point and type lt-handed!)

b

  
Cheers,
Ben
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