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Beamer is far from being the right tool for making presentations, and I’ve basically used only that for the last 12 years. LaTeX is for writing long-ish text.
by stellalo 8y ago
Beamer is far from being the right tool for making presentations, and I’ve basically used only that for the last 12 years.
LaTeX is for writing long-ish text. If what you are writing doesn’t contain sufficiently long text, then it’s hard to justify the overhead compared to say Markdown-based solutions.
- ziotom78 8y agoI found the pair pandoc+beamer perfect for some kinds of presentations. Recently I used them to prepare the keynote and the proceedings for a conference talk: https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/master/ https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/ma... (The keynote is in "presentation.md", and the paper in "article.md".) I had to customize a few pandoc's defaults (see the Makefile) and even had to use a Python filter to tweak the output, but the result was excellent: once everything was in place, creating the slides required no effort at all. I was even able to switch the format from 4:3 to 16:9 in a breeze, once I learned what the resolution of the projector was.