Re: Sorry another Beamer question

There are a number of situations in which we need to fix our code:

1) I am preparing a presentation for Oct 31. There is a problem. I submit a bug report. It takes 10 days to fix the problem. I finish and present my report. 

All is good. You have time. No hacks are needed.

2) I am preparing a presentation for Oct 31. There is a problem. I submit a bug report. It takes 10 days to fix the problem. I finish and present my report. 

You don't have time to wait. You look for a hack, and hope to finish. In addition, how are you to look at interim results?

3) am preparing a presentation for Sept 22. There is a problem. The presentation worked until the last update of bemer. 
 
You don't have time to wait. You look for a hack, and hope to finish.

>From your perspective, Ulrike, I think that you should ENCOURAGE hacks, not discourage them. LaTeX, under MikTeX, whatever, is an open-source tool. People should be able to fix minor issues. Like earlier today someone noted a file was missing. I googled, found the file, could have placed it correctly and gone on. 

Don't dump on people for being resourceful. It's good to have permanent fixes. It's also good and important for things to work in the moment, until the permanent fix is made. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ulrike Fischer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 1:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Sorry another Beamer question

Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 17:31:14 +0000 schrieb Taylor, Robert:

> All very evangelical

Well as the code you are using is from me you should expect that I know what it is about and that I have every right to claim that it is not a good idea to use it today.

> but the updated and latest Beamer files are exactly what was causing 
> the problem ....

I do have a miktex updated today and this here works fine:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS} 

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{abc}
blub
\end{frame}
\end{document}


A remark to a comment you sent me privatly:

> Of course I would rather something functioned properly than use a hack 
> but the hack has worked and for someone whose aim is to produce some 
> slides to present at a conference that matters WAY more than the 
> evangelical beauty of a properly functioning latex system!!

As I already wrote: what you are doing in your own code is up to you. But when you start to spread around wrong code and claim this code is a solution you are misleading other people and I think this is unfair to them. 



--
Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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