END-OF-FRAME, once again..

Wolfgang Engelmann engelmann at uni-tuebingen.de
Wed Oct 13 06:46:04 UTC 2021



Am 13.10.21 um 01:12 schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, UD K wrote:
> 
>> Steve-- I TOTALLY agree with you about the Lyx/Beamer combo being a
>> killjoy experience.  To make matters worse, I use this combination only
>> rarely, and in between, pandemics, Former-Presidents and other plagues
>> brush away what I knew about using it, so the experience is usually 
>> like a
>> root-canal: painful, frustrating and disappointing. It is harder to use
>> than the much maligned Impress of the even-more-maligned LibreOffice, but
>> of course the output, if I ever get to that stage, is MUCH better
>> looking.  Whether that improved look is worth the pain depends on your
>> pain threshold ;-)
> 
> Ehud,
> 
> There are other LaTeX presentation tools. But, I do is copy an existing
> beamer-class .lyx file to a new presentation's name then modify the new
> file. I'll remove frames, enter new titles and contents, and use the same
> Settings that worked in the past.
> 
> May not be pretty but it works.

Same with me. I copy/paste a frame using the mouse and insert it 
wherever I need a similar frame, e.g. a graphic. The label of the figure 
will be changed to xx-1, which I alter with a new adequate label. 
Exchanging the graphic and the legend will do it.
Wolfgang

> 
> Rich


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