On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown 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? > > > Unfortunately, despite LaTeX being better than the alternatives, it's > still terrible for libraries. Slides don't stand alone all that well > because they need certain preamble includes (like TikZ packages). The > latex-beamer manual has lots of good examples. For TikZ, the manual and > texample.net both have good examples. Unfortunately, the huge volume of > documentation still doesn't make the learning curve particularly gentle. > > There are some reasonable beamer-poster examples on the internet and I > have done several posters that way over the years. If high-res versions of > the various logos and "official colers" are available somewhere, I can do > up a theme that will make poster creation fast in the future. I should > probably do this before December in any case because a couple of us have > posters at AGU. > I want that. I usually shy away from making posters for two reasons: no good templates and the ridiculous hardship of printing them. Matt > 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? >> >> >> Barry >> >> > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120907/ab385797/attachment.html>
