st: Re: video from multiple graph exports

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Certainly not true for Mac OS X! The LaTeX distribution install  
associated with TeXShop is a one-click task that works as simply as  
any other installer. And the benefits of being able to use beamer for  
presentations, rather than PowerPoint (which is both expensive and  
clumsy with maths) are overwhelming, particularly with excellent  
integration with popular tools like -estout-, -outreg2-, -tabout- etc.  
(all on SSC). The myth that LaTeX is just too hard for most people to  
deal with is just that. Ask Dr Ben Dwamena of UMich, who presented a  
beautiful beamer-based presentation in San Francisco after asking me  
how beamer worked a year ago after admiring all the beamer  
presentations at NASUG Boston.

I believe the majority of presentations at the San Francisco user  
meetings were beamer-based. A biased sample, perhaps, but it would  
tend to suggest that working with LaTeX is not too hard for people  
from many disciplines (not to mention everyone from StataCorp!)

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Dec 4, 2008, at 02:33 , Michael wrote:

>  I would venture to suggest that installing any TeX
> distribution, and using any command line utility, is a significant
> hurdle for a large number of users, regardless of platform.

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