Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-08 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Steve Litt writes: > For this little presentation I didn't need 3/4 of the features like > table of contents, hierarchical outline, and the supremely ugly header > and footer above and below the white of the presentation. So I need to > expand the white to cover the full screen, but somehow need t

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 20:06:44 Steve Litt wrote: > For this little presentation I didn't need 3/4 of the features like table > of contents, hierarchical outline, and the supremely ugly header and > footer above and below the white of the presentation. So I need to expand > the white to cover

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 20:56:56 Les Denham wrote: > Rich, > > An easy way of achieving what Steve wants in powerdot is to put two boxes > side by side on the slide (easily done simply by setting their widths to > a total of about 99% of text width), and putting the text in one and the > figur

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 14:29:26 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote: > > I guess I'll be making a layout file called "mybeamer". > > Steve, > >You seem to enjoy re-inventing the wheel so you'll have fun with this. > If you read the document you'll find a wide range

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread Les Denham
On Wednesday 07 April 2010 14:06:44 Steve Litt wrote: > In the long run I don't know if I'll be doing these slides in Beamer, > another LyX based slide environment, or just do it in Scribus, which of > course is made for fingerpainting. But Beamer isn't bad for 15 minutes > without reading docum

Re: First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote: I guess I'll be making a layout file called "mybeamer". Steve, You seem to enjoy re-inventing the wheel so you'll have fun with this. If you read the document you'll find a wide range of layouts and colors. Within those, you can tweak to your heart's co

First impressions of Beamer

2010-04-07 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, So I did what Liviu said and did File->new from template and chose the only English Beamer, which was called "fancy beamer" or something like that. For this little presentation I didn't need 3/4 of the features like table of contents, hierarchical outline, and the supremely ugly header