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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
Subject: Re: Boxes around Slides
In-Reply-To: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu's message of 23 Apr 91 01:35:53 GMT
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>>>>> On 23 Apr 91 01:35:53 GMT, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) said:
XW> TeX file should work. If it takes 100 lines for TeX to do the work, then
XW> TeX is not the right tool. Besides, it is easier to modifies things such as
...

the TeX code for the boxing is about 4-6 lines (could squeeze it to
2), but the rest of the style duplicates most of the functionality of
SliTeX (which I could never get to work like I wanted), while also
providing a 'list of slides' table & a couple of spare page layout
styles as well.

not only that, but i can preview the TeX code quickly too.
