[petsc-dev] making Beamer easier to start than Powerpoint

[Matthew Knepley]

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> On Sep 8, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> >   Yes, because this is how people prepare talks. They grab slides and
> partial slides and formats for slides from a variety of previous
> presentations and stick them together in the order they want, and make some
> new slides (often by copying a previous one and changing this in it; for
> example most people use Duplicate_Slide in Powerpoint to start a new slide,
> not New_Slide).
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> > Now if you could come up with a "library" way to do pretty much the same
> process that moved from "templates" to "libraries"  that would be great,
> but I don't see how to do this, do you?
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> > Matt and I have repositories containing a bunch of slides. Our talks
> \input{} a bunch of those slides. For each new talk, I make new slides for
> the new topics and reuse or improve slides for existing topics. Since there
> is only one copy of each slide, the bug fixes are applied to the right
> place so I don't have to worry about copying a slide from an old talk where
> bugs have not been fixed.
> >
> > If I know that I want a truly custom version of a slide, I just copy it
> into the main document. Sometimes I change my mind later and extract slides
> from old talks into separate slide files.
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> >
> > Thus I would be happy if I had about 20 beamer template slides with
> different organizations (a simple bulleted list, a could of pictures, two
> parallel bulleted lists, a bar plot, ….) as I prepare slides I would just
> grab the appropriate template and modify it.
> >
> > https://github.com/jedbrown/talks ?
>
>    Excellent!  Thanks.


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   Matt


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>    Barry
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