[SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Alan L Tyree
I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular solution? Other

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Leslie
> I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX > based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists > a lot of solutions: > http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular > so

RE: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Rowling, Jill
16:52 To: Sydny Linux User Group Subject: [SLUG] LaTeX slides I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists a lot of solutions: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html Has anybo

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-05 Thread Michael Lake
Alan L Tyree wrote: > I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX > based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists > a lot of solutions: > http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with an

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-06 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 17:41, Michael Lake wrote: > > One general suggestion i have is to avoid anything that looks like a > PowerPoint (PP) presentation. Two reasons; I dot think that those styles > are very professional or laid out well. The background yakes away impact > from the content. 2.

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On 6 Feb 2003, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Has anybody had any experiences, good or bad, with any particular > solution? Other people at this thing will be using Powerpoint, so I > would like to look as good as they do. I used to use foiltex, but I wasn't happy with the flashiness of it. On a recommen

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-07 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 6 Feb 2003 17:06:22 +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: > I have used seminar.sty and converted the output using ps2pdf. > > The only caveat I would suggest is to make sure you use a common font like > times if you are not 100% sure of the presentation computer. The font should have been embedded

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-07 Thread Patrick Lesslie
I've found that pdflatex works where latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf will sometimes create a seemingly font-free document. I assumed that that meant, as Gus has suggested, that pdflatex embedded the fonts and therefore allowed portability. BTW I really appreciate this discussion of LaTeX slides ;) pat

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Alan L Tyree wrote: >Banking lawyers - no flames please! In that case, go with powerpoint. The more useless eye-candy and uninformative gunk you can throw at them, the better. Banking lawyers... crikey. :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spa

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Alan L Tyree wrote: >I have to put together a presentation and I would like to use a LaTeX >based solution. I have had a look at Michael Wiedmann's page that lists >a lot of solutions: >http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html > >Has anybody had any experie

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-07 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html > > or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points. TeX people write such nice pages ;-) and you weren't kidding about the examples

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > > > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html > > > > or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. > > Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points.

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: >Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at > >http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ Unfortunately I don't have permission to access pspresent-0.9.tar.gz on that server :( -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepan

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Mon, 10 Feb 2003 12:51:01 +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: > Also I have put up Matt Chapman's pspresent at > > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/~ianw/pspresent/ > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-16 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get > > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. > > I always use xpdf for presentation

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-16 Thread Michael Lake
Ian Wienand wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: > > > This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll > > > through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get > > > acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. > > > > I