I'm making slides and I've had a bug for like 20 mins. Right at the point of thinking "screw this" I'll go back to a working version (git
), I realise the error message is literally what I was doing wrong (just wrong line number cause LaTeX is a joker). FFS. 
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**Sometimes** using beamer is not too far off from the definition of self-harm. Unlike LaTeX generally, beamer can be a real punch in the face (wacky errors!) if you copy-paste stuff from other .tex files esp if they are "working fine" using other compilers (PDFLaTeX!


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Replying to @o_guest
From what we've looked at so far, we've still not found a programmatic way of generating slides which isn't painful. If you ever find something good I'd be keen to hear about it. I've gone back to LibreOffice Impress which is considerably less than ideal.
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Replying to @owainkenway
I use beamer because I can't stand WYSIWYGs. But yes like I said above "using beamer is not too far off from the definition of self-harm".
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Replying to @o_guest @owainkenway
I'm stuck to PowerPoint thanks to coprorate design, but if I get to do my own slides, I like to use RMarkdown these days to generate HTML slides in RStudio. Much nicer to use than Beamer, and I get to write Markdown rather than LaTeX.
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Replying to @kaiblin @owainkenway
Not Rer, or whatever yall are called. But yeah, that's obviously better than self-harm.
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That being said though, I like my beamer slides because (by the end) they look pretty (or at least prettier than if I was using WYSIWYG, esp for maths).
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My sister uses beamer and her comment was it was really amusing when all the leaked NSA documents were going around that they use the same beamer template as her!
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