Hi Rich, Thanks for the suggestion.
I've used LyX before for research papers, and the WYSIWYM approach is fine by me. I have used PSTricks. However, I do remember having a lot of trouble with LaTeX package dependencies and the like and it was never clear to me the right way to address those when using LyX. I would not be interested in hand-coding LaTeX to do presentations. Also, I have a feeling that HTML5 is just going to look way snazzier for dynamic presentations. Take a look at a few examples (in an HTML5 compliant browser): http://imakewebthings.com/deck.js/ http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/ http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/#/bored Of course you can go way overboard with slide transitions, but I do find true utility in having the ability to zoom in on large diagrams in the middle of a talk to show more detail. Having a tree of slides, rather than a simple linear slide deck, is also really nice. For instance, the main talk could be 20 slides long, but on a particular sub-topic of the talk, if someone asks for more info, branching off onto that tangent of slides to help answer it. Longer talks on the same topic could go down some of the branches of the tree to provide more depth. No need to copy/paste slides from one presentation to another for a talk you give in different-length time slots. Just have one big deck and cherry-pick the slides you want to use for that specific audience. Back to your suggestion: do you know of an easy way to go from ODP to LaTeX/Beamer? tim On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Tim wrote: > > > Can anyone suggest other alternatives that I maybe haven't investigated? > > tim, > > The beamer class in LaTeX (or LyX if you prefer the GUI front end). I've > prepared presentations this way for a dozen or more years. The results are > typeset (TeX), math formulae and equations are properly formatted, graphics > can be added in many different formats (I usually use PSTricks for them, but > also use the R lattice package for plots), and the results are .pdf files > using pdflatex. You can navigate easily, any flavor computer that can > display PDF files will work, and you can control everything about the layout > and appearance because underneath it's all LaTeX. > > One of the big advantages is that the presentations look professional, not > the cluttered, difficult-to-read junk that is characteristic of almost all > PPT presentations. > > I can send an example or two if you want to see the results. > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Have knowledge, will travel. > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
