Re: least awful approach for keeping training slides up to date with core doc updates

["Elisa R. Sawyer" <elisawyer -at- gmail -dot- com>]

With the caveat that I agree with David and Mark, I thought I'd mention
LaTeX/Beamer as an alternative to Powerpoint/Keynote for presentations.
Here are two helpful links:

https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Beamer
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations

-Elisa



On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:

> In this case, the relevant portion of the core documentation is a set
> of self-guided tutorials for new users, and we offer classroom
> training that covers the same material.
>
> Other classroom training modules have no direct relationship to any
> one part of the core docs.
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:56 AM, David Farbey <dfarbey -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- uk> wrote:
> > (This thread is making me uncomfortable. I know people are discussing the
> > realities of the environments they work in, and those are work
> situations I
> > recognise from my own career, but the idea that training material is just
> > some edited down and reformatted version of the technical documentation
> > makes me shudder.)
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