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Discussion on: What tools do you use to prepare talks and presentations.

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Anton

You assumption is correct.

Wow, you go way back with your experience. You are old school kick ass!
That's wonderful.

What is a penchant?

Knowing that Jekyll is for blogs, how did you turn into a tool for presentation? Did you read some learning material about this or you come up with everything on your own?

WWOOOOWWW, org mode. I recently started with emacs. I'm not going full in on it at the moment. I practice writing stuff in it every day though and learn small bits here and there. Haven't touch org mode yet. It's so exciting to know that I can do presentations with org mode.

If you will share your experience with emacs and presentations in general and define your further goals that'd be a terrific read.

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Tamara Temple

A penchant is a posh word for "something I like using or doing".

With Jekyll, I just saw an opportunity to turn a screwdriver into a can opener... no, I mean I was working on a reveal presentation for a class I was teaching that someone else had put together and thought "This is so tedious! How can I make this not so awfully painful?". I'd been playing around with Jekyll for some time, and thought about the idea that it's an assembler of sorts; the output of what's assembled is up to the developer. It was recently after Jekyll came out with their Collections concept and seemed ripe for use in some unconventional way.