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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