[OS X TeX] Re: preferred tool for presentations

[Douglas Philips]

On 2006 Dec 11, at 8:14 PM, David Goldenberg wrote:
> At various times, I have played around with beamer, prosper and  
> powerdot (an update to prosper), but I keep coming back to foiltex  
> for the simplicity of the resulting slides.

I've only done a few very short "slide shows" and found powerdot was  
just the right thing, esp. given the ability to have it generate  
several slides from one "page" such that each slide had different  
highlighting and the explanatory text at the bottom could change.  
Just my buck fitty. Maybe beamer could do that, but I found the  
learning curve way too steep. Somehow the way I thought about my  
presentation and the way powerdot was written just "fit". Your  
mileage will be different.

--Doug


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