[pinpoint] update README



commit b71026de15aa0e99245de95e62553d1c2860b6f3
Author: �yvind Kolås <pippin gimp org>
Date:   Mon May 23 13:54:12 2011 +0100

    update README

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@@ -5,14 +5,44 @@ Pinpoint a simple presentation tool that hopes to avoid audience death by
 bullet point and instead encourage presentations containing beautiful images
 and small amounts of concise text in slides.
 
-Features:
-  - Positioning of text
-  - Image backgrounds
-  - Video backgrounds
-  - Transitions
-  - PDF export
-  - Running of commands
-  - Editing of commands during presentation
-  - Monitoring of source file and live updates.
-
-See introduction.pin for more details/an example presentation.
+Pinpoints main web-presence is a page in the GNOME wiki:
+
+ http://live.gnome.org/Pinpoint
+
+This is the first release of pinpoint, with the following features:
+
+ â?¢ Text position
+ â?¢ Styling of font, text-color, contrast background and text positioning for
+   global default and per slide overrides.
+ â?¢ Image backgrounds
+ â?¢ Video backgrounds
+ â?¢ Pango markup inside slides
+ â?¢ Transitions, extendable through json
+ â?¢ PDF export
+ â?¢ Embedding commands to run for demos in slides, with editable commandline
+   during presentation.
+ â?¢ Monitoring of source file with live updates of changed slide for authoring
+
+
+The following illustrates what a pinpoint presentation looks like, for a more
+exhaustive overview of pinpoints features see the included sample presentation.
+
+______________[example pinpoint presentation]_______________________
+# the 0th "slide" provides default styling for the presentation
+[bottom]           # position of text
+[slide-bg.jpg]     # default slide background
+--- [black] [center] # override background and text position
+
+A presentation
+
+--------- # lines starting with hyphens separate slides
+
+The format is meant to be <u>simple</u>
+
+--- [ammo.jpg]  # override background
+
+â?¢ Bullet point lists through unicode
+â?¢ Evil, but sometimes needed
+____________________________________________________________________
+
+For more details see introduction.pin in the pinpoint install.



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