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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking SliTeX Help!!!!
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Date: 9 Apr 90 17:43:07 GMT
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|as someone has brought this up .... can anyone give a reasonable
|explanation as to why you *MUST* have this extra level of files
|for SliTeX .... it just find it a pain !

Yes, the reason become obvious when you see how colour (color to
USAns) layers are implemented: slitex iterates through each colour
with the slide file so there are 3 sets of pages, not interleaved. No
doubt you could eliminate this extra indirection level for B&W slides.

Once you get used to the idea, you just find yourself copying a
boilerplate root.tex into a new directory when you start making a new
set of slides. :-)