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? 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
