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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: Wed, 18-Mar-87 15:20:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 15:20:21 1987
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> ... And keep the text content of each slide to less than six lines.

And while you're at it, don't forget that using slides to display an
outline of your talk is like using videotape to show the head of the
announcer as he reads the news:  if that's all you're going to use the
medium for, why bother?  Slides should be used for things that *can't*
be done easily with words:  images, graphs, diagrams, comparisons,
tables, cartoons.  It's more work but much more satisfactory.
-- 
"We must choose: the stars or	Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
the dust.  Which shall it be?"	{allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry