Subject: Re: TeX for slides (was: KDE and CATS)
To: None <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/07/1998 14:24:44
>On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>> TeX doesn't cut it most of the time. Try doing good color slides once
>> in PowerPoint, and in LaTeX, and you'll see the difference.
>
>Yes, 'cos LaTeX authoring is all about logical document structure.
>Lamport's own book on LaTeX says:
>
>  "Producing slides requires visual formatting, which means that LaTeX
>   is not well suited to the task."

FWIW, I use a LaTeX macro package called Seminar, which by default produces
some very nice looking slides (a hell of a lot better looking than
the default you get from SliTeX).

--Ken