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.
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.
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.
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.