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Presentations

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 classes

Basically, two document classes are recommended for creating (adavanced) presentations with LyX: beamer and powerdot. Both are very powerful and well documented. The decision might depend on your personal preferences.

beamer

Beamer homepage
Beamer examples

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)

powerdot

powerdot homepage
powerdot on CTAN

Caner wrote:

 I use LyX with powerdot for all my presentations now. Check out 
 the presentations at http://www.math.uga.edu/~caner/08engg8110/index.html
 All lectures are prepared with LyX and Powerdot. Very easy to use, highly recommended! 

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 tools

While 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.

KeyJNote

The python program KeyJNote provides, besides different transitions (whose sense might be questioned), some really useful features, such as

• an overview mode of all slides of your presentation (similar to Mac OSX's Exposé)
• highlight boxes that can be drawn with the mouse while presenting
• a spotlight to highlight certain parts of the slide
• zooming
• a time tracker
• and more

KeyJNote 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.

Presentations