The Many Faces of D - slides [ot]

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retard wrote:

> Sun, 03 Oct 2010 11:00:43 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> On 10/03/2010 06:57 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 04:40 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [ . . . ]
>>>> I just use latex for everything. That way I can use vim. It's much
>>>> more pleasant that way.
>>>
>>> Also you can put the material into version control since the source is
>>> mergeable -- unlike OOo files.
>>>
>>> Sadly though LaTeX, even with the beamer package, just isn't up to
>>> doing what is easy with OOo.
>> 
>> I agree, though I'd also add that the likes of PowerPoint don't make it
>> easy to create good presetations. In PowerPoint et al you are forced to
>> focus on a flat structure that gets you boggled in details. For example
>> it's trivial in PowerPoint to move slides around, which should be rare
>> and odd in a well-conceived presentation. However imparting hierarchy to
>> a presentation is not a feature.
>> 
>> Though a text-based presentation engine does not help with structure
>> either, at least it doesn't stay in the way.
> 
> LyX (lyx.org) provides an alternative with WYSIWYM GUI and TeX export
> (LyX is very close to LaTeX). The only problem is, embedded TeX code
> blocks sometimes do not work and sometimes LyX stumbles into parsing bugs
> or fails to produce valid LaTeX for the backend. If I have to choose
> between the real PowerPoint and OpenOffice Impress, PowerPoint beats
> OpenOffice hands down.

I have good experience with making a presentation with Lyx, even starting with 
almost zero knowledge of Latex. Some things with beamer you get for free are 
more cumbersome to do with PP / Impress.