Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Helge Hafting]

On 26. aug. 2011 16:30, Neal Becker wrote:

I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
joint presentation.  I hate it.


I don't know how to do things in powerpoint. But this might work:

1. Make your presentation in beamer, as usual.
2. Make a pdf file of it.
3. Use pdftk or similar, and split the presentation pdf into
   a set of single-page pdf files.
4. Start up powerpoint. Put one pdf image on each page . . .


There may be some problems. Both powerpoint and beamer make margins. But 
you can set 0pt margins in beamer, and a slightly smaller paper size. 
Also make sure the fonts match.


Helge Hafting

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Helge Hafting]

On 26. aug. 2011 16:30, Neal Becker wrote:

I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
joint presentation.  I hate it.


I don't know how to do things in powerpoint. But this might work:

1. Make your presentation in beamer, as usual.
2. Make a pdf file of it.
3. Use pdftk or similar, and split the presentation pdf into
   a set of single-page pdf files.
4. Start up powerpoint. Put one pdf image on each page . . .


There may be some problems. Both powerpoint and beamer make margins. But 
you can set 0pt margins in beamer, and a slightly smaller paper size. 
Also make sure the fonts match.


Helge Hafting

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Helge Hafting]

On 26. aug. 2011 16:30, Neal Becker wrote:

I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
joint presentation.  I hate it.


I don't know how to do things in powerpoint. But this might work:

1. Make your presentation in beamer, as usual.
2. Make a pdf file of it.
3. Use pdftk or similar, and split the presentation pdf into
   a set of single-page pdf files.
4. Start up powerpoint. Put one pdf image on each page . . .


There may be some problems. Both powerpoint and beamer make margins. But 
you can set 0pt margins in beamer, and a slightly smaller paper size. 
Also make sure the fonts match.


Helge Hafting

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Trevor Jenkins]

Nothing to do with LyX but I did enjoy this PowerPoint related item reported
on the Guardian newspaper this weekend. Maybe someone there is a fan of
Edward Tufte in that party; Tufte's essay on PowerPoint should be read by
everyone who thinks that presentation software is a good thing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/powerpoint-party-switzerland-ban


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mukhtar Ullah 
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de wrote:

 Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf
 and so forth.

 Cheers.


 On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:

 Looks nice!
 --**---
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
 mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-**rostock.demukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de
  wrote:

 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have
 this
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like
 text,
 instead of objects.

 Jim


  This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/**tex4ppt/http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

 Mukhtar





 --
 Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
 Dept. of Systems Biology  Bioinformatics
 Institute of Computer Science
 University of Rostock
 18051 Rostock, Germany
 www.sbi.uni-rostock.de




-- 
Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Jim Oldfield]

 From: Mukhtar Ullah mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de
 Sent: Mon, 29 August, 2011 8:27:29
 Subject: Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint
 
  If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have  
this problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just 
  like 
 
text, instead of objects.
  
  Jim
  
  
 This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/
 
 Mukhtar
 


Looks interesting. However, it still has the same problem that the original 
poster was complaining about: the equations are graphics which float above 
text, 
so if you move text around (e.g. add a new bullet point at the start), you 
still 
need to manually fiddle with the position of the equations to put them in their 
new positions.

Jim

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Trevor Jenkins]

Nothing to do with LyX but I did enjoy this PowerPoint related item reported
on the Guardian newspaper this weekend. Maybe someone there is a fan of
Edward Tufte in that party; Tufte's essay on PowerPoint should be read by
everyone who thinks that presentation software is a good thing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/powerpoint-party-switzerland-ban


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mukhtar Ullah 
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de wrote:

 Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf
 and so forth.

 Cheers.


 On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:

 Looks nice!
 --**---
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
 mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-**rostock.demukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de
  wrote:

 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have
 this
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like
 text,
 instead of objects.

 Jim


  This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/**tex4ppt/http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

 Mukhtar





 --
 Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
 Dept. of Systems Biology  Bioinformatics
 Institute of Computer Science
 University of Rostock
 18051 Rostock, Germany
 www.sbi.uni-rostock.de




-- 
Regards, Trevor.

 Re: deemed!

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Jim Oldfield]

 From: Mukhtar Ullah mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de
 Sent: Mon, 29 August, 2011 8:27:29
 Subject: Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint
 
  If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have  
this problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just 
  like 
 
text, instead of objects.
  
  Jim
  
  
 This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/
 
 Mukhtar
 


Looks interesting. However, it still has the same problem that the original 
poster was complaining about: the equations are graphics which float above 
text, 
so if you move text around (e.g. add a new bullet point at the start), you 
still 
need to manually fiddle with the position of the equations to put them in their 
new positions.

Jim

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Trevor Jenkins]

Nothing to do with LyX but I did enjoy this PowerPoint related item reported
on the Guardian newspaper this weekend. Maybe someone there is a fan of
Edward Tufte in that party; Tufte's essay on PowerPoint should be read by
everyone who thinks that presentation software is a good thing.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/28/powerpoint-party-switzerland-ban


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Mukhtar Ullah <
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de> wrote:

> Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf
> and so forth.
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:
>
>> Looks nice!
>> --**---
>> Julio Rojas
>> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
>> >
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have
 this
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like
 text,
 instead of objects.

 Jim


  This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
>>> http://sites.google.com/site/**tex4ppt/
>>>
>>> Mukhtar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
> --
> Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
> Dept. of Systems Biology&  Bioinformatics
> Institute of Computer Science
> University of Rostock
> 18051 Rostock, Germany
> www.sbi.uni-rostock.de
>
>


-- 
Regards, Trevor.

<>< Re: deemed!

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Jim Oldfield]

> From: Mukhtar Ullah <mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
> Sent: Mon, 29 August, 2011 8:27:29
> Subject: Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint
> 
> > If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have  
> >   this problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just 
> > like 
> 
> >   text, instead of objects.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > 
> This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
> http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/
> 
> Mukhtar
> 


Looks interesting. However, it still has the same problem that the original 
poster was complaining about: the equations are graphics which float above 
text, 
so if you move text around (e.g. add a new bullet point at the start), you 
still 
need to manually fiddle with the position of the equations to put them in their 
new positions.

Jim

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this 
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text, 
 instead of objects.
 
 Jim
 
 
This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de wrote:
 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
 instead of objects.

 Jim


 This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

 Mukhtar

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf 
and so forth.


Cheers.

On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de  wrote:

If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
instead of objects.

Jim



This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar






--
Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
Dept. of Systems Biology  Bioinformatics
Institute of Computer Science
University of Rostock
18051 Rostock, Germany
www.sbi.uni-rostock.de

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this 
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text, 
 instead of objects.
 
 Jim
 
 
This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de wrote:
 If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
 problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
 instead of objects.

 Jim


 This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
 http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

 Mukhtar

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf 
and so forth.


Cheers.

On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
mukhtar.ul...@informatik.uni-rostock.de  wrote:

If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
instead of objects.

Jim



This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar






--
Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
Dept. of Systems Biology  Bioinformatics
Institute of Computer Science
University of Rostock
18051 Rostock, Germany
www.sbi.uni-rostock.de

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

> If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this 
> problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text, 
> instead of objects.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
 wrote:
>> If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
>> problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
>> instead of objects.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
> http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/
>
> Mukhtar
>
>
>
>

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Mukhtar Ullah]

Remember that you can't use with it graphic packages like graphicsx, pgf 
and so forth.


Cheers.

On 29/08/2011 09:32, Julio Rojas wrote:

Looks nice!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Mukhtar Ullah
  wrote:

If you were lucky enough to be using PowerPoint 2010 you wouldn't have this
problem; equations editing is now built in, so equations are just like text,
instead of objects.

Jim



This can come to your rescue. I have tested it and works like a charm.
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/

Mukhtar






--
Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah
Dept. of Systems Biology&  Bioinformatics
Institute of Computer Science
University of Rostock
18051 Rostock, Germany
www.sbi.uni-rostock.de

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically)
 and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?


No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.

I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,

Rainer



-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?


 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.

 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.


Just found something similar:
http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources


 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,

 Rainer



 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:  rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:  RMkrug




-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.

Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?

 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

 Just found something similar:
   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources

 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
 Rainer


 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:      rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:      RMkrug




 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:      rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:      RMkrug

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
 with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.

There is something nicer than that:
- Ekee [1], but it's broken on modern distros and unmaintained (though
looking for one)
- KLatexFormula [2], which features no KDE dependency. It doesn't work
on my Linux box, but I never gave it a genuine effort and my best
guess is that it shouldn't be a big issue to make it work.

Both allow to generate images of LaTeX formulae. You could, in
principle, generate the formulae using LyX, copy/paste the LaTeX code
and save the image using one of the above.

Good luck
Liviu

PS If some of the devels read this, given the Instant Preview
mechanism in LyX how difficult would it be to add a context-menu item
that allows to save a given equation as an image file? Does this mean
some significant changes to LyX, or is the existing machinery
sufficient?

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/ekee/
[2] http://alternativeto.net/software/klatexformula/


 Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?

 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

 Just found something similar:
   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources

 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
 Rainer


 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:      rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:      RMkrug




 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Tim Wescott]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:30 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a 
 joint presentation.  I hate it.
 
 I just want something like this:
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...
 
 You get the idea.
 
 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically) 
 and 
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort of 
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
 
 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping 
 that 
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures, and 
 aren't actually attached to anything.
 
 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
 
That's about it.  At least in Word you can force an object (like an
equation) to act like one big character, but not in PowerPoint
(LibreOffice Present mimics this feature, by the way).

By the way: you could have used Microsoft Equation Editor, which comes
with Word.  It sucks, but you can get the point across.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically)
 and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?


No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.

I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,

Rainer



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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?


 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.

 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.


Just found something similar:
http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources


 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,

 Rainer



 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
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UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.

Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?

 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

 Just found something similar:
   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources

 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
 Rainer


 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:      rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:      RMkrug




 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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 Skype:      RMkrug

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
 with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.

There is something nicer than that:
- Ekee [1], but it's broken on modern distros and unmaintained (though
looking for one)
- KLatexFormula [2], which features no KDE dependency. It doesn't work
on my Linux box, but I never gave it a genuine effort and my best
guess is that it shouldn't be a big issue to make it work.

Both allow to generate images of LaTeX formulae. You could, in
principle, generate the formulae using LyX, copy/paste the LaTeX code
and save the image using one of the above.

Good luck
Liviu

PS If some of the devels read this, given the Instant Preview
mechanism in LyX how difficult would it be to add a context-menu item
that allows to save a given equation as an image file? Does this mean
some significant changes to LyX, or is the existing machinery
sufficient?

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/ekee/
[2] http://alternativeto.net/software/klatexformula/


 Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:


 On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?

 No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
 difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
 I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
 slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

 Just found something similar:
   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources

 Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
 Rainer


 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
 Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

 Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

 email:      rai...@krugs.de

 Skype:      RMkrug




 --
 Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
 UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

 Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
 Stellenbosch University
 South Africa

 Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
 Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
 Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Tim Wescott]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:30 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a 
 joint presentation.  I hate it.
 
 I just want something like this:
 
 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...
 
 You get the idea.
 
 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically) 
 and 
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort of 
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
 
 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping 
 that 
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures, and 
 aren't actually attached to anything.
 
 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
 
That's about it.  At least in Word you can force an object (like an
equation) to act like one big character, but not in PowerPoint
(LibreOffice Present mimics this feature, by the way).

By the way: you could have used Microsoft Equation Editor, which comes
with Word.  It sucks, but you can get the point across.

-- 

Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker  wrote:

> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
> joint presentation.  I hate it.
>
> I just want something like this:
>
> \begin{itemize}
> \item Nice Equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> \item Another equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> ...
>
> You get the idea.
>
> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically)
> and
> bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
> of
> thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
>
> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
> Make an itemized (bullet) list
> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
> that
> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
> and
> aren't actually attached to anything.
>
> I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
>

No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.

I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.

Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,

Rainer



-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Rainer M Krug]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker  wrote:
>
>> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
>> a
>> joint presentation.  I hate it.
>>
>> I just want something like this:
>>
>> \begin{itemize}
>> \item Nice Equation
>> \begin{equation}
>> y = x
>> \end{equation}
>> \item Another equation
>> \begin{equation}
>> y = x
>> \end{equation}
>> ...
>>
>> You get the idea.
>>
>> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
>> (electronically) and
>> bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
>> of
>> thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
>>
>> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
>> Make an itemized (bullet) list
>> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
>> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
>> that
>> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
>> and
>> aren't actually attached to anything.
>>
>> I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
>>
>
> No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
> difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
>
> I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
> slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.
>

Just found something similar:
http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources


> Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>
> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
> Stellenbosch University
> South Africa
>
> Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
> Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
> Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
>
> Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44
>
> email:  rai...@krugs.de
>
> Skype:  RMkrug
>
>


-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

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Skype:  RMkrug

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Julio Rojas]

What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.

Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker  wrote:
>>>
>>> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
>>> a
>>> joint presentation.  I hate it.
>>>
>>> I just want something like this:
>>>
>>> \begin{itemize}
>>> \item Nice Equation
>>> \begin{equation}
>>> y = x
>>> \end{equation}
>>> \item Another equation
>>> \begin{equation}
>>> y = x
>>> \end{equation}
>>> ...
>>>
>>> You get the idea.
>>>
>>> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
>>> (electronically) and
>>> bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
>>> of
>>> thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
>>> Make an itemized (bullet) list
>>> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
>>> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
>>> that
>>> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
>>> and
>>> aren't actually attached to anything.
>>>
>>> I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
>>
>> No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
>> difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
>> I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
>> slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.
>
> Just found something similar:
>   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources
>>
>> Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation
>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>
>> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
>> Stellenbosch University
>> South Africa
>>
>> Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
>> Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
>> Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
>>
>> Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44
>>
>> email:      rai...@krugs.de
>>
>> Skype:      RMkrug
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>
> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
> Stellenbosch University
> South Africa
>
> Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
> Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
> Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
>
> Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44
>
> email:      rai...@krugs.de
>
> Skype:      RMkrug
>
>

Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Julio Rojas  wrote:
> What I usually do is generate the PDF with the equations, open the PDF
> with Inkscape and save them as GIFs or PNGs.
>
There is something nicer than that:
- Ekee [1], but it's broken on modern distros and unmaintained (though
looking for one)
- KLatexFormula [2], which features no KDE dependency. It doesn't work
on my Linux box, but I never gave it a genuine effort and my best
guess is that it shouldn't be a big issue to make it work.

Both allow to generate images of LaTeX formulae. You could, in
principle, generate the formulae using LyX, copy/paste the LaTeX code
and save the image using one of the above.

Good luck
Liviu

PS If some of the devels read this, given the Instant Preview
mechanism in LyX how difficult would it be to add a context-menu item
that allows to save a given equation as an image file? Does this mean
some significant changes to LyX, or is the existing machinery
sufficient?

[1] http://alternativeto.net/software/ekee/
[2] http://alternativeto.net/software/klatexformula/


> Sounds cumbersome, but beats the hell out of mathtype!
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker  wrote:

 I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of
 a
 joint presentation.  I hate it.

 I just want something like this:

 \begin{itemize}
 \item Nice Equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 \item Another equation
 \begin{equation}
 y = x
 \end{equation}
 ...

 You get the idea.

 I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out
 (electronically) and
 bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
 of
 thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.

 The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
 Make an itemized (bullet) list
 Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
 Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
 that
 nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
 and
 aren't actually attached to anything.

 I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
>>>
>>> No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
>>> difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
>>> I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
>>> slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.
>>
>> Just found something similar:
>>   http://wifo.eecs.berkeley.edu/wiki/doku.php/latex:latex_resources
>>>
>>> Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
>>> Rainer
>>>
>>>
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>>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
>> UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
>>
>> Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
>> Stellenbosch University
>> South Africa
>>
>> Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
>> Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
>> Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44
>>
>> Fax (D):    +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44
>>
>> email:      rai...@krugs.de
>>
>> Skype:      RMkrug
>>
>>
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Re: [OT] I hate powerpoint

[Tim Wescott]

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:30 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a 
> joint presentation.  I hate it.
> 
> I just want something like this:
> 
> \begin{itemize}
> \item Nice Equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> \item Another equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> ...
> 
> You get the idea.
> 
> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt.  I just ran out (electronically) 
> and 
> bought mathtype.  It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort of 
> thing.  But not ppt.  It has no concept of boxes and glue.
> 
> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
> Make an itemized (bullet) list
> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping 
> that 
> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures, and 
> aren't actually attached to anything.
> 
> I know _nothing_ about ppt.  Is there any better way?
> 
That's about it.  At least in Word you can force an object (like an
equation) to act like one big character, but not in PowerPoint
(LibreOffice Present mimics this "feature", by the way).

By the way: you could have used Microsoft Equation Editor, which comes
with Word.  It sucks, but you can get the point across.

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