I've always preferred the look of LaTeX; I had enough time to prepare for
this presentation so I chose to do it with that.
I didn't get to finish a few slides I wanted to, though. So a few of them
are commented out; and I think it would have helped make a few things
clearer. I still need to advance my LaTeX-foo a bit ;) If you don't tell
LaTeX what you want in the right way, it gives you garbage.
The way it really saved time is I write code, and embed both the code and
the output of the program in the slide (sometimes plots). Make a change to
the code, and presto, the presentation content and graphics changes too.
My MyHDL wrapper tools generate tree-like resource structures too using
tikz-qtree of the entire system you're designing. Oh and using loops to
make complex but repetitive graphics is soooo much nicer than copy paste.
My mantra is I prefer to code up anything I possibly can, and have the
computer make things for me instead of doing it all by hand. It saves me
time. I guess that's why I'm nuts enough to think we can actually build
the HT of the Future with anything less than 80 engineers and $5M :)
Thanks
Chris
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I first hired on as a tech writer in the early 80's, I was given
> a stack of yellow pads. I asked for a word processor computer, and
> they said no. So I brought in my H-89 CP/M and Wordperfect and that
> was that. We had "lino" Korean ladies that spoke no english, just
> typed what they saw, and they were remarkable at reading our
> handwriting.
>
> When I started handing in double spaced type, already spell checked,
> they thought I was a f---ing man from outer-space.
>
> The thing was, that we got payed by the finished page, so I could work
> a lot faster, and skip two revision cycles with the lino ladies.
> After I got enough money to buy me a new truck, I was on the road
> again! ha.
>
> I miss my H-89 though, that was a nice machine. I played with ROFF and
> VI in college, but after I got the Programmers Editor on the H-89
> (Software Toolworks If I remember), that was my editor of choice until
> Turbo-C 1.5 IDE came out...
>
> None of which was real good for math symbols, although Wordperfect was
> good enough.
>
>
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