On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:52 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >> >> The allure of Powerpoint is I can just start it up and poke around the >> menus to put together a few slides that look ok very quickly. If I want a >> table I just hunt for table and do it, same with graph etc etc. But like >> all/most GUI based systems for anything once you want more detailed control >> or to automate something or to do something real complex Powerpoint becomes >> a massive pain. >> >> Is there, or could we set up, a repository of Beamer "templates" that >> would make Beamer almost as easy as Powerpoint to quickly throw something >> together. Basically the source for a bunch of INDEPENDENT slides that do >> standard things people want to do with Powerpoint? Where we can easily add >> new ones? Also crude placement of multiple things in Powerpoint is so >> simple, just move things around, it is painful to have to place things by >> exact location specifications in Beamer; on the other hand exact placement >> in Powerpoint is difficult. It takes me three seconds to put four different >> size images on a slide in Powerpoint. Are there ways to do that in Beamer >> that are almost as fast? > > Why not just use (Multi)Markdown or pandoc (be warned: pandoc is > written in haskell and basically requires you to install its own > package management system called 'cabal')? I wrote the slides I gave > my talk last Friday in MultiMarkdown. Thanks but neither one is exactly what I am looking for. Barry
