use Perl

So people are starting to use AxPoint. Wonderful! But people aren't understanding everything, not so wonderful... So here's some hints and tips.

• For the <source-code> tag, you can specify <source-code fontsize="11"> to get smaller fonts if your source won't fit on a slide.
• You can really get great effects by specifying <slide default-transition="none"> and then using <point transition="replace"> on the first of a group of points you want to appear at the same time.
• The -l option to /usr/bin/axpoint launches acroread for you, making edit/check/debug cycles a bit faster.
• AxPoint supports SVG - this is really useful, to (for example) draw diagrams, lines, curves, circles etc. You can see an example of this in This presentation I gave to Birmingham.pm
• AxPoint doesn't do anything special with characters itself, but it is XML, so to get a < sign you have to type <, and to get an & sign you need to type &

I hope that helps those of you who like me are still doing presentations for upcoming conferences!