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Basic presentations with LaTeX Beamer

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 7 comments
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Since slide shows are graphical themselves, most people associate them with GUI programs. Yet you can build slide shows just as effectively with some of the simplest and oldest of GNU/Linux tools. A case in point is LaTeX Beamer, which adds extensions to the classic LaTeX typesetting program to produce PDF presentations. Although LaTeX Beamer is capable of considerable complexity, you need to know surprisingly little in order to produce a slide show.

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Comments (7)

mvermeer ·
...and it is called LyX.

No, it doesn't completely replace reading the Beamer manual ;-/
bigg ·
Good to know that. The default presentation packages in LyX don't seem to do everything I want. I looked at the article and was scared away, though, by all the .tex code. I'll definitely be giving it a try.
montezuma ·
The ornate conference template in lyx looks useful. I'll check it out. The pdf produced seems to work well with evince which is another bonus. acroread is pretty jerky whereas evince feels lighter and smoother.

Edit: BTW Martin thanks for lyx! I use it for all my papers....
bigg ·
After wasting some time, it finally occurred to me to open synaptic and search for beamer (I always forget that when using Debian, it's probably in the repositories). I installed it, reconfigured, and opened the beamer template.

Holy crap. Now that's a presentation.

Thanks for LyX if you're the one responsible for it Martin.
robT ·
I use LyX a lot. The 1.5 version(s) are much better than the predecessors. With LyX it's incredibly easy to put together a presentation using the Beamer class.
bigg ·
> The 1.5 version(s) are much better than the predecessors.

I used to use Scientific Word. 1.3 was still behind in a few areas, 1.4 fixed most of the weaknesses, and now 1.5 is so far ahead of SW that I can't figure out why anyone still uses SW.

When I moved completely to Linux, LyX made that part of the transition a non-issue. A perfect example of how porting FOSS to Windows removes the barriers to ditching Windows.
mvermeer ·
> Thanks for LyX if you're the one responsible for it Martin.

One of many... appreciated.

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