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Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)
Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)
Posted Jan 3, 2006 14:36 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com) by rknop
Parent article: Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)
From the comments here, I think I'll try Latex at some point. Latex beamer was also recommended previously by some friends. I don't think I'll move away from text-files though. I do want eye-candy, but it takes second place to being able to do my work in emacs.
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Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)
Posted Jan 5, 2006 15:09 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]
LaTeX + beamer + xemacs (comes with AUC-TeX here), then run pdflatex. Easy enough to use for simple stuff, and can be used to create stunning presentations. As a bonus, most of the more exotic LaTeX stuff works too, and it is even possible to create a paper and presentation from the same source. It is simple to change the theme of the presentation.
MagicPoint has its nice features, but its page format is too rigid for my needs (or I haven't been able to find the right docu...). Besides, it made quite a mess with some Latin-1 text (yes, some of us do need to go futher than plain ASCII), so I gave up.
For some reason, I've never managed to create anything more than very basic bullet-pointed lists with Power Point or any of the WYSIWYG packages, OOo Impress included. Must be some permanent damage from using text interfaces too much...