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|What is the advantage of SliTeX except color handling?

Automatic vertical centering, fiducial marks and note pages with slide pages,
among other things.

|I tried \centering and \begin{center} ... \end{center}.
|But both did not work for me.
|There must be many occasions that we need centering.  How can I do that?

Horizontal centering should work. We have no problems.

|The LaTeX book description on SliTeX is not really adequate in my

Agreed.

|opinion.   I can't even \input any slide file in the root file.
|There must be something I do not understand.  What's that?
|
|At U of Illinois, CS dept has a local slide.sty under LaTeX (I mean
|it's not invoked by % slitex filename, but by % latex filename).  But it's 
|not the standard.  What's the reason of using latex with a local 
|slide.sty rather than using the standard SliTeX?

Then it's not slitex. Slitex is a modified set of macros and usually
predumped in the same way LaTeX is.

|I know a lot of people who have tried to use SliTeX and then given up
|the idea of using SliTeX.  They then just have been using the LaTeX
|{article} style with \protect\Large for their slides.

Once set up, it is no more hassle to use than LaTeX. The problem is that
in older tape distributions, the SliTeX fonts were not provided ready
made (one had to fire up Metafont). So many sites never got around to
installing SliTeX properly.