Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 12:43:13 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>  address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > What is missing for displaying slides?  AFAIK, the current Emacs
> > display engine is perfectly capable of displaying text with images.
> Slides as images (or pdfs), or even just plain text as some org :slide:
> does work just fine as currently is in Emacs. I ment more that people
> like to have some more elemnts, like lines, arrows, and
> other graphical elements in office applications as well as laying out
> those elements and text in a bit more advanced way.

We have svg.el for that, can't it be utilized?

> For example text boxes in office apps. I am not sure how easy it is
> to layout images and have text wrap around it in Emacs and
> similar.

Shouldn't be a problem, we have image slices since Emacs 21.