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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There's stuff like Marp https://yhatt.github.io/marp/ or other DIY markdown + pandoc + beamer systems, though I typically think presentations should have a minimum of words and a maximum of figures and diagrams and illustrations, so I've always stuck w/ keynote.
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I completely agree with you. I try very hard to do so. I think my best attempt so far at this is this set of slides: https://figshare.com/articles/What_the_Success_of_Brain_Imaging_Implies_about_the_Neural_Code/4252022 …
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See these tweets (sub-thread) for why I need some of latex's features regardless though:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/959072498292686849 …
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