On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> wrote: > 22/05/2014 08:09, Cyrille Artho: > >> Hi Scott, >> Thanks for your work in keeping the packages working. I'm still using >> foils (foiltex) so I'm very happy if it can be kept working for a long >> time. In fact, I was not aware that it is no longer maintained. >> That's too bad because I think I'm not the only one who still uses it. >> >> In my personal opinion, beamer uses too many boxes and does not look >> good if you use a lot of figures/images on the slides. Beamer slides may >> look better for text-only slides but those slides are boring to begin >> with ;-) > > > Yes, I depend on foils to. I tried beamer for my last presentation (because > I needed its slide animation features), but I really did not like it. Too > much bling for my taste. > I also have issues with all the bling that comes with Beamer by default, but with some few Beamer config tweaks all the bling can be toned down significantly. This is why I came up with a series of "simple" Beamer examples on the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer
Most changes are obtained very easily via simple Beamer calls in the Preamble. Liviu > OTOH, I reckon that foilTeX slides can be a bit > ugly, and I'd welcome another option. > > JMarc > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
