Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the tip about Impressive! That is pretty Impressive. Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems)

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tip about Impressive!  That is pretty Impressive. Most welcome. :) Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems) As for

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
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

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the tip about Impressive! That is pretty Impressive. Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems)

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tip about Impressive!  That is pretty Impressive. Most welcome. :) Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems) As for

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Steve Litt 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

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the tip about Impressive! That is pretty Impressive. Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems)

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Thanks for the tip about Impressive!  That is pretty Impressive. > Most welcome. :) > Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to > differing package names on different systems) > As for

LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. The general idea is simple: As I teach (modern physics for EE students), instead of writing on a

Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:56:43 +0300 Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. Hi Ronen, I can't help you

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Coffee
Hi Ronen, Very interesting ideas --- thanks for sharing. It occurs to me you could get a good start to the 2-projector solution you describe by telling your monitor setup that the screens are above below, then stretching your LyX window vertically across the two. Then when you reach the end of

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread menoncin
I sometimes use LyX as a presentation tool myself. To what has already been written, I add that for showing how a graph is created step by step I use JPicEdt http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/site/index.php?language=en which is a WONDERFUL software by itself but whose LaTeX code can be copied

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: * Slow -- Doing math on slides is bad. Most of the time, the slides are too crowded to understand, and fill-up at once, and not character by character as one would like on the board. When I'm typing with the class, I'm

LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. The general idea is simple: As I teach (modern physics for EE students), instead of writing on a

Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:56:43 +0300 Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. Hi Ronen, I can't help you

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Coffee
Hi Ronen, Very interesting ideas --- thanks for sharing. It occurs to me you could get a good start to the 2-projector solution you describe by telling your monitor setup that the screens are above below, then stretching your LyX window vertically across the two. Then when you reach the end of

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread menoncin
I sometimes use LyX as a presentation tool myself. To what has already been written, I add that for showing how a graph is created step by step I use JPicEdt http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/site/index.php?language=en which is a WONDERFUL software by itself but whose LaTeX code can be copied

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Ronen Abravanel ron...@gmail.com wrote: * Slow -- Doing math on slides is bad. Most of the time, the slides are too crowded to understand, and fill-up at once, and not character by character as one would like on the board. When I'm typing with the class, I'm

LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. The general idea is simple: As I teach (modern physics for EE students), instead of writing on a

Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:56:43 +0300 Ronen Abravanel wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 > years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of > an interest to others: As a presentation tool. Hi Ronen, I can't

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Coffee
Hi Ronen, Very interesting ideas --- thanks for sharing. It occurs to me you could get a good start to the 2-projector solution you describe by telling your monitor setup that the screens are above & below, then stretching your LyX window vertically "across" the two. Then when you reach the end

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread menoncin
I sometimes use LyX as a presentation tool myself. To what has already been written, I add that for showing how a graph is created step by step I use JPicEdt http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/site/index.php?language=en which is a WONDERFUL software by itself but whose LaTeX code can be copied

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote: > * Slow -- Doing math on slides is bad. Most of the time, the slides are too > crowded to understand, and fill-up at once, and not character by character > as one would like on the board. When I'm typing with the class, I'm