On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > I can't help you with your LyX questions because I know little about > the LyX authoring environment, but I can give you one tip that's helped > me a heck of a lot. > > When presenting, I use one of those wireless optical mice they sell for > between $10 and $20. I make sure the mouse is: > > 1) 1000dpi and > 2) Can be used up to 30 meters away. > 3) Has a scroll wheel between the left and right mouse buttons > I was also hesitating to take a high-resolution mouse, but I think I'll go for a laser pointer. I'm only a bit lost on which brand and model to buy. Anyone care to share their experience?
> Then I can use the mouse normally while I'm at the computer, but can > walk around the audience using the left and right mouse button to > advance or go back a slide (I use Evince with a PDF presentation, so > this works). Also, I can use the scroll wheel to quickly advance or go > backward. > Personally I use Impressive [1][2] (instead of Evince or any other PDF reader) to display my LyX-created Beamer PDFs. Impressive is, well, impressive. Other than benefiting from left/right mouse clicks to go to next/prev slide, you get many additional features: Page transitions, Overview screen, Highlight boxes, Spotlight effect, zooming, a time tracker, etc. (To some these would be useless eye-candy, to others genuinely useful features. It may well depend on the specific presentation, audience and setting.) There is also an open ticket [3] that, when fixed (patch available), would improve the process: LyX -> Beamer -> Impressive. Regards Liviu [1] http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc4 [3] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8018
