Comments on: LaTeX and PowerPoint presentations

By: brahim

brahim — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:05:51 +0000

comment installer Beamer Latex?
merci

By: Gary Tucker

Gary Tucker — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:08:47 +0000

I’ve used beamer for several years for class notes. The advantage for me is being able to use the same LaTeX file to produce both slides and notes. For slides I use a header file with the beamer document class; for class notes I use a header file with the article document class and the beamerarticle package along with a wide right margin for the student to take additional notes.

The beamer class allows you to specify things as just belonging to the presentation version or just to the article version; that’s something I can’t do with PowerPoint.

By: human mathematics

human mathematics — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:12:47 +0000

Oops, that’s Keynote and LaTeXiT. (Been a while since I’ve had a Mac.)

By: human mathematics

human mathematics — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:10:16 +0000

I’m with Hofstadter on this one. The hammer swings the man when he uses a tool like Beamer. The best slides are full of images and transparencies are much better for that than computer (unless you have a tablet with a stylus).

If I don’t have either of those available, best toolset is Keynote with Equation Service.

By: Matt Leifer

Matt Leifer — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:42:31 +0000

Of course, if you have TeXLive then installing beamer is as simple as “tlmgr install beamer” (or it is installed by default if you have gone with the “full” installation). This also installs all dependencies, so you don’t have to worry about xcolor or pgf explicitly.

Beamer is nice as far as it goes, but my main issue with it is the byzantine construction for making themes. I have yet to succeed in editing one of the pre-installed themes to make a new one without breaking something important. As a result, almost everyone uses one of the pre-installed themes and all beamer presentations end up looking the same.

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By: John Johnson

John Johnson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:05:26 +0000

I almost always use beamer, and even take it a step of (leaky) abstraction further and use org mode. Org model allows me to write it as an outline first with a little more structure than slides, and fill in details as I go.

Oh yeah, about that leaky abstraction: including images …

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:09:26 +0000

I’ve actually used another package in LaTeX for presentations. It’s called powerdot, and is an improvement on another package called prosper. I’ve actually liked it a little more than Beamer, in terms of its coding. Just a personal preference, since both produce fine mathematical presentations. I’ve been using it and its predecessors for about 3 years, and haven’t really used PowerPoint in a while for my presentations.

By: Blaise F Egan

Blaise F Egan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:32:16 +0000

I tried Beamer for a presentation and it was great. I then tried it for another, much larger presentation with lots of pictures and pdflatex failed to produce the output PDF. Breaking it into three presentations fixed the problem. It looks like there is a size limit that people should know about. Other than that it’s a great package.

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Reproducible Ideas » Blog Archive » Reproducible presentations — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:11:51 +0000

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By: Xav

Xav — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:22:40 +0000

For those willing to use PowerPoint and LaTeX, have a look at
http://sites.google.com/site/tex4ppt/