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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: gripe about Washington Usenix conference
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Date: Sat, 4-Apr-87 20:46:44 EST
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> > And keep the text content of each slide to less than six lines.
> 
> I don't agree with this because it can fragment a talk unnecessarily.  If
> the text is an outline of the talk, this is reasonable, but a program
> example or program output is not easily limited to 6 lines/slide.

But if you put a lot more than 6 lines on the slide, a substantial audience
won't be able to read it anyway.  I'm not sure I agree with the particular
number "6" (I'm basically opposed to using slides for text at all), but the
general point is valid.
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