Presentations with LATEX and a computer. Issues pertaining to every talk, страница 3

You cannot assume that your laptop will work by default on projector X.

In particular older projectors may not be able to synchronize to new laptops.

If possible at all, try out your laptop in advance. Also know how to change your display settings.

If all fails, have a Plan B:

Have your slides on a memory stick (+USB cable).

PDF is probably the only format any laptop can display

Think about carrying printed slides

You cannot assume that your laptop will work by default on projector X.

In particular older projectors may not be able to synchronize to new laptops.

If possible at all, try out your laptop in advance. Also know how to change your display settings.

If all fails, have a Plan B:

Have your slides on a memory stick (+USB cable).

PDF is probably the only format any laptop can display

Think about carrying printed slides

Get color, incremental display for free

No need to lug slides to conference

Talk can be easily posted

Copier slides cost $0.20 each, printer slides $1 each.

Why LATEX/PDF

Standard mathematical Typesetting

Acrobat offers full screen display (CTRL-L) on any platform

Slides displayable on virtually any laptop

Incremental display A-B-C is faked by having a page A, followed by A-B, followed by A-B-C.


Get color, incremental display for free

No need to lug slides to conference

Talk can be easily posted

Copier slides cost $0.20 each, printer slides $1 each.

Why LATEX/PDF

Standard mathematical Typesetting

Acrobat offers full screen display (CTRL-L) on any platform

Slides displayable on virtually any laptop

Incremental display A-B-C is faked by having a page A, followed by A-B, followed by A-B-C.

Get color, incremental display for free

No need to lug slides to conference

Talk can be easily posted

Copier slides cost $0.20 each, printer slides $1 each.

Why LATEX/PDF

Standard mathematical Typesetting

Acrobat offers full screen display (CTRL-L) on any platform

Slides displayable on virtually any laptop

Incremental display A-B-C is faked by having a page A, followed by A-B, followed by A-B-C.

Get color, incremental display for free

No need to lug slides to conference

Talk can be easily posted

Copier slides cost $0.20 each, printer slides $1 each.

Why LATEX/PDF

Standard mathematical Typesetting

Acrobat offers full screen display (CTRL-L) on any platform

Slides displayable on virtually any laptop

Incremental display A-B-C is faked by having a page A, followed by A-B, followed by A-B-C.


Options

All Yourself Spend much time fiddling with technicalities. slides class with ppower program. prosper class http://prosper.sourceforge.net/ beamer class http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/. (Germans think “beamer” is the English word for computer projector)

Newest package, easiest work flow (avoiding postscript), better layout, excellent incremental display.

I will concentrate on “beamer”.

All material and templates will be on the departmental web pages under “Links”→“Help and Tutorials” under “LATEX”.

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Options

All Yourself Spend much time fiddling with technicalities. slides class with ppower program. prosper class http://prosper.sourceforge.net/ beamer class http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/. (Germans think “beamer” is the English word for computer projector)

Newest package, easiest work flow (avoiding postscript), better layout, excellent incremental display.

I will concentrate on “beamer”.

All material and templates will be on the departmental web pages under “Links”→“Help and Tutorials” under “LATEX”.

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To use beamer, you need to have three packages installed in your

TEX path: beamer, xcolor and pgm.

You can find all three at http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/

You install the packages by unpacking them either in the global or your private TEX tree. (A private tree needs an addition to the

TEXMF environment variable.)

Usually you need to call texhash after unpacking to update a lookup table.

In MiKTEX use the update wizard to install the packages called latex-beamer, pgf, and xcolor.