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PresentationsCategories: Tag me, Presentations << DocumentationDevelopment | Page list | Troubleshooting >>A page about how you can use LyX to create presentations, and also presentation tools useful with LyX. This page was started after reading this thread LyxUsersThread:25005 Presentation classesBasically, two document classes are recommended for creating (advanced) presentations with LyX: beamer and powerdot. Both are very powerful and well documented. The decision might depend on your personal preferences. beamerBeamer homepage Uwe also wrote: The Manual of "Beamer" explains it very well. The author also offers layout files for LyX. Have a look at: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/25014 Here you find some customized presentation from me made with Beamer: http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ (If you are interested in compiling/processing my LyX-files, I can tell you) powerdotpowerdot homepage Jürgen wrote: Whilst everyone is recommending beamer (which I'm using myself btw), I just want to mention that there is an alternative package, which is told to be (at least) as powerful, called powerdot (replaces prosper and HA-prosper) It also features a LyX layout file and uses PSTricks. Mael wrote: You should have a look at powerdot new LaTeX class from Hendri Adriaens and Christopher Ellison (first release was this summer), which to me is very much easier and instinctive to use than beamer and also very powerful (interactive table of contents on slides, easy overlays creations, powerful template system to easily develop new styles, and much more). Additionaly, powerdot provides LyX support ;) Presentation toolsWhile LaTeX-generated presentations are usually simple PDF files and thus can be presented with any PDF viewer that supports full screen mode, there are some applications that can do "more". Such tools are listed in this section. ImpressiveThe python program Impressive (formerly known as KeyJNote) provides, besides different transitions (whose usefulness might be questioned), some really useful features, such as
Impressive should run on any Platform where LyX runs and it is easy to install. However, since its effects rely on OpenGL, you need a decent computer with hardware acceleration support, enough memory and diskspace. Tips for managing presentationsBeamer presentation and beamer article side by side(this summarizes the following thread on lyx-users: http://marc.info/?l=lyx-users&m=124653748611160&w=2) LyX ships a layout both for the beamer presentation class and for the beamer article class. However, switching the class everytime is annoying, and you also might want to have different settings for the presentation and the article. There's a simple trick that allows a presentation and a beamer-article in parallel: Include the beamer presentation, say The only annoying thing is that LyX spits a warning about differing text classes every time you view the master. The good news, though, is that you can disable this warning as of LyX 1.6.4. Note:
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