On 6/2/2010 12:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Your point about Powerpoint is legit -- if both your source and destination machines are Windows, have the same fonts, and both have Powerpoint, Powerpoint's the easiest way to do it. Sort of. With Powerpoint, it's all too easy to fingerpaint yourself into oblivion and then not be able to restore the defaults. But yeah, Powerpoint's much easier when you're placing graphics.
There's also the question of mathematical notation. I happen to think that entering math in LyX is much easier than using MS's equation editor, but that's not the main issue to me. A couple of years ago I was at an operations research conference where presenters split about 50-50 between using Powerpoint and using Beamer. At these conferences, it's typical that one presenter brings a laptop and all presenters use that laptop ... which means that unless you are the one providing the laptop, you cannot be sure which fonts are installed. A whole bunch of presenters discovered blank spaces where math had once lived. I think I saw that happen once with a Beamer user (maybe), but it happened numerous times to Powerpoint users. In my personal experience, necessary fonts are usually embedded in the PDFs that Beamer produces. Not so with Powerpoint.
/Paul
