Virgil, I have shortened and reformatted slightly for ease of reference.
On 2021-10-05 15:24 , Virgil Arrington wrote: [...]
Unlike our good Dr. E.L., I can't leave my slide designs alone.
[...] Actually constant misunderimprovements are one of the mistakes one often makes in presentations.
I tried to do the same thing in LyX.
[...]
After much searching online, I learned about the LaTeX \xcolorpackage, which provides access to many, many more colors.
The query
https://www.google.com/search?q=lyx+text+color
returns 1260000 results, the very FIRST of which
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33225/color-text-in-lyx
explains this quite nicely.
[...]
I then hit Ctrl-R to compile my slides and was met with a LaTeX error of "Option clash for package xcolor." Say, what!?
As xcolor is loaded by LyX I just add something like
\definecolor{MyBlue}{HTML}{000040}
\definecolor{Firebrick4}{HTML}{8b1a1a}
to my preamble
[...]
So, yes LyX/Beamer worked, but only after I spent many hours learning about an xcolor package to get the shade I wanted and troubleshooting errors. As you can imagine, I could tell many other stories with similar processes and outcomes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=xcolor+site%3A.lyx.org
shows 51 hits (on *.lyx.org), and after 30 years with LaTeX (and 15
with lyx) looking for stuff has become second nature.
It seems you have an aversion towards RTFM :-)-O, even though one only
needs to do this once. I must say, even in (not so deep) Africa we have
Internet speed which allows me to look stuff up on the web as fast as in
the online help.
[...]
The difference -- for me at least -- is that, with LO, I can usually track down errors and solve problems from within the program itself without having to resort to extensive other documentation or online StackExchange threads.
[...]
And, in case someone is interested I attach the template I use if I have
to write something for our weekly Continuing Professional Development/
Continuing Medical Education sessions.
In the preamble I include the multimedia package because sometimes I
like to play videos from within the PDF :-)-O, scrdate because I like
the \ISOToday (YYYY-MM-DD), as I wrote earlier I like a modified
metropolis theme, the NOTO fonts (need to be added late in the preamble,
never bothered to figure out why :-)-O), mess a bit around with the
formatting and font family, put a Draft/Date into the background and
make provision for handouts which are commented out.
I add
17pt, xcolor=svgnames,aspectratio=1610
to Document --> Document Class --> Custom: because I like it big, am
used to svgnames rather than dvipsnames and I in particular like the
aspect ration change to that I get more real estate on the screen.
greetings, el
cpdtemplate.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
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