On Sep 8, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Matt and I have repositories containing a bunch of slides. Our talks \input{}
> a bunch of those slides. For each new talk, I make new slides for the new
> topics and reuse or improve slides for existing topics. Since there is only
> one copy of each slide, the bug fixes are applied to the right place so I
> don't have to worry about copying a slide from an old talk where bugs have
> not been fixed.
>
> If I know that I want a truly custom version of a slide, I just copy it into
> the main document. Sometimes I change my mind later and extract slides from
> old talks into separate slide files.
>
>
> 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.
>
> https://github.com/jedbrown/talks ?
Excellent! Thanks.
Barry
