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Another feature of MagicPoint is the ability to draw on slides during a presentation. By pressing x on the keyboard, the slide can temporarily be scribbled on with red "ink". Shift x allows you to cycle through other pen colours.
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Content is written in text files and formatting is indicated by text features. For example, different level
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is used to create slides, MagicPoint slides are created by writing text files using a simple
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External applications can be executed from inside the presentation
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to presentation programs [LWN.net]
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MagicPoint was originally created in the autumn of 1997, at a
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Developer(s)
Stable release
Operating system
Unix-like
Type
Presentation program
License
BSD license
http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/
Free and open-source software portal
open-source
presentation programs
Microsoft PowerPoint
GUI
markup language
X11
WIDE Project
bullet points
tabs
HTML
PostScript
FSF Directory


Using Linux for Presentations Mini-HOWTO
List of MagicPoint presentation by Google
MagicPoint man page
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
itojun's pictorial diary

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