Presentation with FoilTeX
As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! Here is the problem: I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set "landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX or gv? Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( Thanks a lot Emanuele
Re: Presentation with FoilTeX
Subject: Presentation with FoilTeX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyx User Mailing List) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:25:13 +0100 (MET) From: Emanuele Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! Here is the problem: I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set "landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX or gv? Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( Thanks a lot Emanuele It's a problem of a4paper/landscape... I don't know about Foils, but here it goes with seminar: - a4paper+landscape produces 21x29.7 slide ready for printing, but not for viewing on a 4/3 screen - however ghosview is cute enough to undertand whats going on and rotate the paper; - Acrobat reader is not cute and insists upon viewing as a4paper like the printer (and I didnt find any Rotate button...) So what you need (to use acrobat with the videoprojector) is a portait sized as 29.7x21, which is NOT a standard paper format. Fixing this size with geometry works fine with a plain document, but I was not able to make it work with a seminar-derived class... So ghostview should do it if you stick to a4/landscape. IMHO, there should be a clean solution to this in the future, most of the viewgraphs will never be printed in a4 or the like: as I mentioned, 4/3 (and perhaps 16/9 :-) should be present as a standard paper format along with a4, letter, etc. This is clearly a LaTeX issue. Regards -- Jean-Pierre
Presentation with FoilTeX
As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! Here is the problem: I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set "landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX or gv? Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( Thanks a lot Emanuele
Re: Presentation with FoilTeX
Subject: Presentation with FoilTeX To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyx User Mailing List) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:25:13 +0100 (MET) From: Emanuele Olivetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! Here is the problem: I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set "landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX or gv? Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( Thanks a lot Emanuele It's a problem of a4paper/landscape... I don't know about Foils, but here it goes with seminar: - a4paper+landscape produces 21x29.7 slide ready for printing, but not for viewing on a 4/3 screen - however ghosview is cute enough to undertand whats going on and rotate the paper; - Acrobat reader is not cute and insists upon viewing as a4paper like the printer (and I didnt find any Rotate button...) So what you need (to use acrobat with the videoprojector) is a portait sized as 29.7x21, which is NOT a standard paper format. Fixing this size with geometry works fine with a plain document, but I was not able to make it work with a seminar-derived class... So ghostview should do it if you stick to a4/landscape. IMHO, there should be a clean solution to this in the future, most of the viewgraphs will never be printed in a4 or the like: as I mentioned, 4/3 (and perhaps 16/9 :-) should be present as a standard paper format along with a4, letter, etc. This is clearly a LaTeX issue. Regards -- Jean-Pierre
Presentation with FoilTeX
As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! Here is the problem: I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set "landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX or gv? Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( Thanks a lot Emanuele
Re: Presentation with FoilTeX
>>Subject: Presentation with FoilTeX >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyx User Mailing List) >>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:25:13 +0100 (MET) >>From: Emanuele Olivetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>As you probably know I'm at the end of my thesis...8-} . Now I'm trying to >>set up the presentation; obviously I want to use LyX. >>They say to me to use my notebook instead of that old-fashioned slides... >>I'll prepare both of them, because I like slides. No way to use PowerPoint, >>as they suggested. I don't want to mix heaven and hell! >> >>Here is the problem: >>I'll use ghostview (gv by Johannes Plass) on my notebook with a projector, >>to show my LyX-slides; since the display is larger than tall, I'll use >>landscape A4 paper as default. But if I set landscape paper and RotateFoilHead >>environnement, things go wrong and I get a portrait slide shown horizontally. >>Using only Landscape paper or only RotateFoilHead goes wrong. If I set >>"landscape", in the Extra Option of the document layout, I get the right >>thing, but text is truncated on the right (using gv). Is it a problem of LyX >>or gv? >> >>Which viewer shall I use to make the presentation? Is gv good for this? >> >> >>If I can't find a solution I'll use portrait slides :-( >> >> >> >>Thanks a lot >> >> >> Emanuele >> It's a problem of a4paper/landscape... I don't know about Foils, but here it goes with seminar: - a4paper+landscape produces 21x29.7 slide ready for printing, but not for viewing on a 4/3 screen - however ghosview is cute enough to undertand whats going on and rotate the paper; - Acrobat reader is not cute and insists upon viewing as a4paper like the printer (and I didnt find any Rotate button...) So what you need (to use acrobat with the videoprojector) is a portait sized as 29.7x21, which is NOT a standard paper format. Fixing this size with geometry works fine with a plain document, but I was not able to make it work with a seminar-derived class... So ghostview should do it if you stick to a4/landscape. IMHO, there should be a clean solution to this in the future, most of the viewgraphs will never be printed in a4 or the like: as I mentioned, 4/3 (and perhaps 16/9 :-) should be present as a standard paper format along with a4, letter, etc. This is clearly a LaTeX issue. Regards -- Jean-Pierre