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LaTeX Rules
LaTeX Rules
Posted Jan 3, 2006 15:12 UTC (Tue) by nicku (subscriber, #777)In reply to: LaTeX Rules by Zenith
Parent article: Presentations with Pylize (Linux.com)
Why I like beamer:
- I can get nice handouts and nice presentation slides from the same source
- I can move towards my goal of integrating practical workshops in the same file that contains the presentation.
- it is as flexible as I want, and it makes me happy to use it.
- I am already very familiar with LaTeX.
- the auctex package makes it easy to edit in emacs.
I would say pstricks and pgf have steep learning curves, but xfig?
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LaTeX Rules
Posted Jan 3, 2006 23:23 UTC (Tue) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]
As another comment points out, the "steep learning curve" mainly relates to the fact that Xfig is so different from anything I have ever tried before, and thus seems quite arcane (B/W, ugly interface - although very effecient once you get to know it).
Also, it has some really strange problems with switching the "units" setting, or the orientation (landscape/portrait), which messes with the grid settings, sometimes making it impossible to do proper aligns afterwards, and also the lines starts snapping to a grid that is some pixels off.
I have also problems understanding the way that it colours the fonts sometimes, if you choose to use LaTeX fonts, and their colour is *not* black (often the case with the beamer theme I use), in the way that sometimes the font is black, sometimes the colour of the fonts that the theme has.
All in all, though, I like Xfig a lot, now that I know its quirks.