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LaTeX is incredible slow at first but the true power comes from only having to do something once and being able to put it under version control. I spent an aft

LaTeX is incredible slow at first but the true power comes from only having to do something once and being able to put it under version control. I spent an afternoon getting a presentation template ready, now it's incredible easy to make a powerful, beautiful presentation ready. I tried to do the same thing with Powerpoint and apart from the frustration I always lost a lot of time when I (or Powerpoint) managed to screw up something. It does in general lead to some embarrassing moments when working with non academics/developers. Somewhere there is a team of artists that still jokes about that developer guy that proposed to do his presentation in Latex.

bnj 12y ago
As someone just learning to really use the power of LaTeX, I wish I could find more templates like these to customize for myself!
- __m 12y ago
  Do you already know https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com formerly writelatex.com ? It has some nice templates.
  - bnj 12y ago
    This is brilliant, thanks for the suggestion!
qznc 12y ago
I use LaTeX a lot and nearly exclusively, however for presentations I try to use HTML. I rarely get to do it, because work usually requires me to use certain templates. Handwritten HTML is just as nice to version control. I can embed rich media stuff easily. I can use transition and other effects (in the rare cases where they actually make sense). I can embed interactive things, which is better than alt-tabbing somewhere else. I can create a pdf as fallback as well.
- inclemnet 12y ago
  Do you have an html framework or tool you recommend for this? I like LaTeX a lot for its stability and very reliable results, but I've more recently wanted easier embedding without sacrificing this, and hadn't thought of using html.