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Bug#366998: marked as done (latex-beamer: User manual has a strange learning curve)

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regarding latex-beamer: User manual has a strange learning curve
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Package: latex-beamer
Version: 3.01-1
Severity: wishlist


Hi!
While reading /usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/beameruserguide.pdf.gz
I noticed that its learning curve is somewhat irregular.
I think that a little reorganization of topics could greatly
improve its usefulness.
Hence, I thought that I could point out the issue, so that
it may (perhaps) be forwarded to upstream and fixed in a
future release...

The main issue I see is the following.

Section 7.2 _Components of a Frame_ is dramatically harder to understand
than all the previous ones.
All the stuff about beamer templates for frame components is
mainly meant to teach the reader how to create his/her own themes...
I mean: as long as I'm satisfied with an existing theme, and I just want
to build a presentation (after all, that's the title of the part we are in:
_Building a Presentation_!), I should not need bothering.
Is that right?
If this is the case, all the stuff about templates in section 7.2
_Components of a Frame_ (as well as all the bits about templates found
in successive chapters...) should be moved to somewhere in Part III
_Changing the Way Things Look_. Section 7.2 should instead be
summarized so that it just explains the structure of a frame and
everything that a user of existing themes should know...

Thanks for considering.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.32
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages latex-beamer depends on:
ii  latex-xcolor                  2.00-1     Easy driver-independent TeX class 
ii  pgf                           0.65-1     TeX Portable Graphic Format
ii  tetex-extra                   2.0.2c-8   Additional library files of teTeX

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On 12.05.06 20:08, Francesco Poli wrote:

Hi Francesco,

> While reading /usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/beameruserguide.pdf.gz
> I noticed that its learning curve is somewhat irregular.
> I think that a little reorganization of topics could greatly
> improve its usefulness.
> Hence, I thought that I could point out the issue, so that
> it may (perhaps) be forwarded to upstream and fixed in a
> future release...
> 
Unfortunately we don't/can't care about bugs/issues in upstream LaTeX
packages:

1. We are low in man power and can't work on them in time.
2. We don't use most of the LaTeX packages ourself, hence we can't
   evaluate if we look at a bug or not.

If you really think anybody should still work on this issue, please be
so kind to contact the upstream authors directly. I'm closing this bug
now, else it would sit in the DBTS another 13 years.

Hilmar
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