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we don't talk about powerpoint (mander.xyz)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Powerpoint is what made me originally vow to try to never use word or powerpoint again, about 15 years ago. I was making a mathematically-dense presentation and became so frustrated with it that I wanted to throw my computer out the window. I still was somewhat new to latex at the time but figured there had to be some way to make presentations in latex. Found beamer and have never used pp for a real presentation again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Yeah, PowerPoint is made for "business presentations", and its auto-alignment makes it useful for layout tasks like e.g. Adobe Illustrator replacement, plus it has some picture editing features though ofc nowhere close to Photoshop (or gimp, or ImageMagic, etc.), plus its presentation mode is good e.g. like Acrobat but far easier to use iirc.

But it's definitely of the WYSIWYG class, whereas for math I believe you want LaTeX, at which point it's probably easier to just do the layout from within that than to take pictures of the formulas and present from within PowerPoint.

PowerPoint can be a nice tool for many, but not for that purpose, agreed.