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Re: Re: Re: Using Mathematica notebooks in

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  • Subject: [mg97713] Re: [mg97613] Re: [mg97602] Re: Using Mathematica notebooks in
  • From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:12:42 -0500 (EST)
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couldn't agree more. Form without content is a blight on the world of
Education. Its fine for the world of Advertising, but for stuff that
matters....

Peter

2009/3/17 Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>

> I'm curious as to what is considered "too basic" in the Mathematica
> slide show tools.
>
> If what is meant is the absence of fades, dissolves, fancy borders and
> backgrounds, etc. -- GOOD, I'm glad they're not available.  In almost
> every case I've ever seen, such features are just distracting junk.
>
>
> magma wrote:
>
>  > The current slideshow tools  in Mathematica are still too basic to
> compete
>  > with the commercial presentation packages
> --
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-- 
Peter Lindsay


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