On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would normally use beamer, but now I'm forced to use ppt for my part of a
> joint presentation. I hate it.
>
> I just want something like this:
>
> \begin{itemize}
> \item Nice Equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> \item Another equation
> \begin{equation}
> y = x
> \end{equation}
> ...
>
> You get the idea.
>
> I see no reasonable way to do this in ppt. I just ran out (electronically)
> and
> bought mathtype. It looks like if I was using word, I could do this sort
> of
> thing. But not ppt. It has no concept of boxes and glue.
>
> The only thing I can do AFAIK is:
> Make an itemized (bullet) list
> Make ever other item in the list blank to leave some space
> Glue in the mathtype equations, MANUALLY trying to align them, and hoping
> that
> nothing moves the items of text, because the equations are just pictures,
> and
> aren't actually attached to anything.
>
> I know _nothing_ about ppt. Is there any better way?
>
No idea - what I did was created pdfs and converted them to ppt. But
difficult, if you have to stick to a certain layout.
I remember that I had a script which did that (convert pdf to picture, add
slides with one ex-pdf per page and bundle to ppt), but I can't find it.
Cheers and good luck if you really have to use PP,
Rainer
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