On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Oh, another that occurred to me is figures; If slide 27 and 38 included a
> bunch of figures (stored in some silly subdirectory called figs/ or figures/
> or who knows what with absurd names) I have to remember to find out all the
> file names and copy over all of them and fix the paths (if I use the correct
> subdirectory name called Figures :-).
>
> \graphicspath{{./Figures}}
>
> You do realize you are basically arguing for "templates" instead of
> "libraries". Instead of using PETSc, people should just copy the GMRES from
> someone else, then modify so that it calls their MatMult and PCApply, bug
> fixes and composability be damned.
Yes, because this is how people prepare talks. They grab slides and partial
slides and formats for slides from a variety of previous presentations and
stick them together in the order they want, and make some new slides (often by
copying a previous one and changing this in it; for example most people use
Duplicate_Slide in Powerpoint to start a new slide, not New_Slide).
Now if you could come up with a "library" way to do pretty much the same
process that moved from "templates" to "libraries" that would be great, but I
don't see how to do this, do you?
Thus I would be happy if I had about 20 beamer template slides with different
organizations (a simple bulleted list, a could of pictures, two parallel
bulleted lists, a bar plot, ?.) as I prepare slides I would just grab the
appropriate template and modify it.
Barry
