Installation

First make sure you have all the prerequisites installed, as described on the Requirements page. Then, if you have root access, run the following commands (substitute the correct version number if it differs from the below): 
tar xzvf multitalk-1.4.tar.gz
cd multitalk
make
su -c make install
The default installation puts things in /usr/local. You can tweak the Makefile if you want to change that.

If you do not have root access, replace the final step with: 

make userinstall

If you install Multitalk in a non-standard location and/or it has trouble locating the resources it needs (fonts, styles and graphics), you should set the MULTITALK_DIR environment variable to the directory which contains the fonts, gfx and styles subdirectories.

Getting started

There is a sample talk in the examples directory. You start Multitalk like this: 
multitalk <talk-name>
For example: 
multitalk examples/about.talk

How it works

You provide a text file with the '.talk' extension, say, foo.talk. This contains the text of your talk, formatted in a simple Wiki-like markup language. When Multitalk runs it creates a file called foo.graph. This stores the coordinates of each slide in 2D space. The talk file is always edited by you, but the graph file is updated automatically by Multitalk whenever you reposition a slide or image with the mouse.

Command-line options

-fs full-screen
-win window
-export export HTML
-nowatch don't watch talk file for changes
-reverse reverse mouse scroll direction
-force regenerate latex segments even if text hasn't changed (useful if style parameters such as text or background colour have been modified for slides containing latex)
-displaysize=widthxheight set window/screen size in pixels
-version show Multitalk version number