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Tim Bray wrote: >> Hmmm....so your best slides are based on pictures whose structure is >> not captured by the markup. > > Absolutely. I am abandoning the pretense that the slide deck captures > the *content* of my presentation. The slides are a visual aid, that's all. I'm with Tim on this one. Except when constrained by a customer contract, my slideshows have never overlapped much with the content of my presentation -- I design them to supplement, not to duplicate. In general, I use slides for things that are hard to grasp aurally: - code fragments - illustrations (such as screenshots) - tabular data - sequential rules, steps, or guidelines I occasionally use them for impact as well, say, by including a famous quotation on a slide rather than reading it aloud. My slideshows have always been nearly useless for anyone trying to recreate the content of one of my talks. All the best, David
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