On Sep 7, 2012, at 11:11 PM, Sean Farley <sean at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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. Nope, I don't like least common denominator solutions :-)
