Subject: Re: TeX for slides (was: KDE and CATS)
To: Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/07/1998 11:04:14
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998 15:17:33 +0100 (BST) 
 Neil Hoggarth <neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

 > On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
 > 
 > > TeX doesn't cut it most of the time. Try doing good color slides once
 > > in PowerPoint, and in LaTeX, and you'll see the difference.
 > 
 > Yes, 'cos LaTeX authoring is all about logical document structure.
 > Lamport's own book on LaTeX says:
 > 
 >   "Producing slides requires visual formatting, which means that LaTeX
 >    is not well suited to the task."

One should try LyX (GUI TeX front-end)... it even has slides templates :-)

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