gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (11/18/89)
Hi,
What is the advantage of SliTeX except color handling?
I tried \centering and \begin{center} ... \end{center}.
But both did not work for me.
There must be many occasions that we need centering. How can I do that?
The LaTeX book description on SliTeX is not really adequate in my
opinion. I can't even \input any slide file in the root file.
There must be something I do not understand. What's that?
At U of Illinois, CS dept has a local slide.sty under LaTeX (I mean
it's not invoked by % slitex filename, but by % latex filename). But it's
not the standard. What's the reason of using latex with a local
slide.sty rather than using the standard SliTeX?
I know a lot of people who have tried to use SliTeX and then given up
the idea of using SliTeX. They then just have been using the LaTeX
{article} style with \protect\Large for their slides.
Hughrgwg0230@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (11/18/89)
hmm... slitex is limited but so far I have not experienced the problems you describe. Centering seems to work for me - i defined an extra command that uses the centering environment. the latex manual doesn't describe the file setup that you should use for slitex - look in your texinputs directory for a slitex sample file. slitex works best when you have a root file and then a slides file that holds slide descriptions. when is slitex nice ? - when you write notes and slides at the same time - when the slides are mostly text and modified over time (the onlyslides and onlynotes features help alot here) Bob Wilhelm internet (really) : wilhelm@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu KBESRL, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 244-0292
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (11/18/89)
|What is the advantage of SliTeX except color handling? Automatic vertical centering, fiducial marks and note pages with slide pages, among other things. |I tried \centering and \begin{center} ... \end{center}. |But both did not work for me. |There must be many occasions that we need centering. How can I do that? Horizontal centering should work. We have no problems. |The LaTeX book description on SliTeX is not really adequate in my Agreed. |opinion. I can't even \input any slide file in the root file. |There must be something I do not understand. What's that? | |At U of Illinois, CS dept has a local slide.sty under LaTeX (I mean |it's not invoked by % slitex filename, but by % latex filename). But it's |not the standard. What's the reason of using latex with a local |slide.sty rather than using the standard SliTeX? Then it's not slitex. Slitex is a modified set of macros and usually predumped in the same way LaTeX is. |I know a lot of people who have tried to use SliTeX and then given up |the idea of using SliTeX. They then just have been using the LaTeX |{article} style with \protect\Large for their slides. Once set up, it is no more hassle to use than LaTeX. The problem is that in older tape distributions, the SliTeX fonts were not provided ready made (one had to fire up Metafont). So many sites never got around to installing SliTeX properly.
chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (11/29/89)
In article <1989Nov18.140934.20220@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes: >|I tried \centering and \begin{center} ... \end{center}. >|But both did not work for me. >|There must be many occasions that we need centering. How can I do that? > >Horizontal centering should work. We have no problems. Chances are the slides with the centering problems look like this: \begin{slide} \begin{center} ... \end{center} or \begin{slide} \centering ... This causes very mysterious results. The fix, of course, is to change the `\begin{slide}' lines to \begin{slide}{} I ran into this problem the hard way. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris