[OS X TeX] Two random reflections

[Jens Nöckel]

On Jan 27, 2006, at 7:08 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

>
> On Jan 27, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>>
>> - LinkBack Keynote plugin + LaTeXiT: a great combination. Thanks to 
>> all those involved in making these tools available! There are things 
>> I miss from the other equation editors (i.e. the ability to use 
>> different preambles in Equation Service, and the user interface and 
>> ability to save and reopen equation libraries in LaTeX Equation 
>> Editor), but nothing important. The only annoying bit is that 
>> equations are images to Keynote, so that you cannot have, for 
>> example, a bulleted list with some items being equations; instead, 
>> you need to reserve white space to paste the equation in, at the very 
>> last stage of composition of a slide, when all other elements are in 
>> place.
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Are you using Keynote 3 yet? Does the LinkBack plugin still work with 
> this new version of Keynote?
>
> I think the problem you note is more generally that Keynote doesn't 
> have in-line graphics; graphics are always ties to the page. Pages 
> does have this distinction and I assume they both share lots of code 
> so it's on my wish list.
>
> I traded e-mails with the author of the Keynote LinkBack plugin and he 
> said it turned out to be much more difficult to write a plugin for 
> Pages although he didn't say why.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
>
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Herb,

LinkBack doesn't work with Keynote 3. I sent an email to the creator of 
the plugin, King Chung Huang, (3 days ago) but haven't received a reply 
yet. Maybe he needs more donations so he can buy the new version of 
Keynote. He certainly deserves it.

Jens

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