My LaTeX Talk Took 90 Minutes to Compile Because of One Letter
I have a talk that teaches students how to set the most beautiful seminar paper. It is written in LaTeX, obviously, because a LaTeX talk made in PowerPoint would be the academic equivalent of a vegan butcher. It has kerning diagrams. It has glyph boxes. It has a slide that explains, with a straight face, that LaTeX is worth the effort. It also took over 90 minutes to compile. The workaround I called a feature Beamer has a handout mode that collapses all the animations into single slides. The handout version compiled in a perfectly normal amount of time. The full version, the one with the overlays that reveal bullet points one by one like a very slow magician, took an hour and a half, and more if you were impatient enough to check. ...