On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good > idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul > be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average > powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) > Goodbye,
Emme, I have used Powerdot very successfully for presentations at international conferences for about three years (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Powerdot). I have installed Powerdot from CTAN on four computers running different (but all up-to-date) Linux distributions, and have not yet found the default LaTeX installation to meet the prerequisites for Powerdot (usually the required version of xkeyval [2.5c] is not there). These requirements are on page 26 of the Powerdot manual, unobtrusively included under the heading "Compiling your presentation". A LyX layout is included with the CTAN download. Overall, I think Powerdot gives much better (more professional and consistent) results than PowerPoint, but does not have the ease of editing, nor many of the "bells and whistles". I would say it is about 70% integrated into LyX. One point which is not emphasized in the manual is that though the final product is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to use ps2pdf. -- Les ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
