What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.
Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
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Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
>>> a
>>> joint presentation. I hate it.
>>>
>>> I just want something like this:
>>>
>>> \begin{itemize}
>>> \item Nice Equation
>>> \begin{equation}
>>> y = x
>>> \end{equation}
>>> \item Another equation
>>> \begin{equation}
>>> y = x
>>> \end{equation}
>>> ...
>>>
>>> You get the idea.
>>>
>>> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt. I just ran out
>>> (electronically) and
>>> bought mathtype. It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
>>> of
>>> thing. But not ppt. It has no concept of boxes and glue.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
>>> Make an itemized (bullet) list
>>> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
>>> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
>>> that
>>> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
>>> and
>>> aren't actually attached to anything.
>>>
>>> I know _nothing_ about ppt. Is there any better way?
>>
>> No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
>> difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
>> I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
>> slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.
>
> Just found something similar:
> http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources
>>
>> Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
>> Rainer
>>
>>
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> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>
> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
> Stellenbosch University
> South Africa
>
> Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
> Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
> Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
>
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