On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > On 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). > > So can we blame Knuth for this or is it Leslie Lamport's fault? Anyways > this is is a majorly bad design decision someone made way back. > > Maybe we can make a beamer preprocessor that takes all the "preamble > stuff" from all slides and passes it all up to the preamble before running > latex? Cause this is a stupid limitation.
At this point, you might as well be using pandoc to transform Barry's latex -> latex.
