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On Tuesday 22 November 2005 08:13 am, Anastassis Perrakis wrote: > There is simply no good argument to use .gif in a 'usual' PP-type > presentation. My experience is radically different. On more than one occasion, as either speaker or audience member, I have suffered from the self-incompatibility quirks of PowerPoint + video. If you are using your own machine to present, then go with whatever works. But if you are going to hand your presentation over for display on someone else's machine, an animated gif is *far* more likely to work than an embedded video. Anyhow, I second the recommendation for encoding in mencoder. But the same warning applies - if the output works on your machine, then great. But do not count on having a PPT-embedded video run on anyone else's machine. > Power Point is an excellent tool for making your presentation I agree with you there. > even Word is the best word processor I have seen so far But there you have left the course of wisdom. IMHO almost anything else, including pencil and paper, is better than MSWord. But I digress, ... > - and yes, I am very good at using LaTex and wrote my thesis on it Try LyX. It's not really a word processor, but it sure makes it easy to write in LaTeX. -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742
