Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Rich, The beamer

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote: The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape. Paul, Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread has a full-screen projection mode. Angus, As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't occur to me. The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? read the beamer documentation 86 pages ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? Matej, Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer slides. Google

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The first few look promising. Major tips: Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get. matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Rich, The beamer

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the slides. How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote: The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View -- Full screen and navigating through it with the keys pagedown, pageup and escape. Paul, Aha! In this case I might as well stick with mgp.

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread has a full-screen projection mode. Angus, As I wrote to Paul, Aha!. I've not used acroread for this so it didn't occur to me. The results are very impressive, but you'll need to use

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their PowerPoint stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? read the beamer documentation 86 pages ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? Matej, Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer slides. Google

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: Google search terms giving presentations returned 3,370,000 hits. The first few look promising. Major tips: Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get. matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25

Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Thanks, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 06:00:50 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. I'd > like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these > shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? Rich, The

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Angus Leeming
Rich Shepard wrote: >For years I've been using magicpoint to illustrate my presentations. >I'd > like to try the beemer class to prepare the "slides". How are these > shown on a notebook connected to an lcd projector? You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread.

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Paul Smith wrote: The beamer class' output is thought to be a PDF file. You can do the presentation with Acrobat Reader, selecting View --> Full screen and navigating through it with the keys "pagedown", "pageup" and "escape". Paul, Aha! In this case I might as well stick

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Angus Leeming wrote: You'll end up with a PDF file that you can view using Acroread. Acroread has a full-screen projection mode. Angus, As I wrote to Paul, "Aha!". I've not used acroread for this so it didn't occur to me. The results are very impressive, but you'll need to

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: > I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she > was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I > mentioned how poorly most folks do presentations with their "PowerPoint" > stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Herbert Voss
Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? read the beamer documentation 86 pages ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a presentations well? Matej, Not specifically. I learned decades ago and attended a couple of sessions offered within the past decade by InFocus on the use of color on computer "slides". Google

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Fernando Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Matej Cepl wrote: > >> Rich Shepard wrote: >> > I was speaking yesterday with one of the Association's office staff (she >> > was obviously bored since the other two had left for meetings in China). I >> > mentioned how poorly most folks do

Re: Presentations with Beemer

2004-12-08 Thread Matej Cepl
Rich Shepard wrote: > Google search terms "giving presentations" returned 3,370,000 hits. The > first few look promising. > > Major tips: Thanks a lot, Rich, that's exactly what I hoped to get. matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F