https://blog.macrogol.xyz/tags/latex/Recent content in Latex on Macrogol's BlogHugo -- 0.162.1enCC BY-SA 4.0Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.macrogol.xyz/en/quadratic-latex/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.macrogol.xyz/en/quadratic-latex/<p>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.</p> <p>It also took over 90 minutes to compile.</p> <h2 id="the-workaround-i-called-a-feature">The workaround I called a feature</h2> <p>Beamer has a <code>handout</code> 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.</p>