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As I already deleted John's mail, I'll answer Herberts:

Herbert Voss schrieb:
| John O'Gorman wrote:
|> How does powerdot compare with beamer?

On LyX level? Not very much. On LaTeX level it's a matter of taste IMHO.

Some impressions from my experiences while preparing my first powerdot
presentation held yesterday:

Pro beamer:
there are subsections, subtitles, "blocks" (pretty boxes), fancier
overlay commands, better default vertial spacing on slides

Pro powerdot:
much nicer style presets, much cleaner latex interface, fast evolving
(promising), better reuse of existing packages (enumitem, xkeyval), many
contributors (not at least Herbert :) ), allows postscript specials
(killer argument if you need it)

Both are nicely documentated, allow verbatim text with overlays, allow
customization. I would use beamer for for larger presentations (i.E.
teaching classes as in [1]) and beamer for shorter, more visual
presentations.

HTH & YMMV.

Yours,

Karsten
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