> I updated http://www.haifux.org/givelecture.html according to > the summary of the thread so far. > > I also found a nice presentation on the subject, and linked to > it: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~ebrown/latexpre.pdf
A few comments: 1. The five bullets on LaTeX belong together, perhaps under a separate heading. After all, they're useful only to people who use LaTeX. Speaking of which: does anyone know of presentation tools using plain TeX? 2. The tutorial you point to is really a tutorial for using prosper. It belongs under the prosper bullet. 3. Here's another tutorial (better in my opinion). In addition to being a technical introduction, it gives some important advice about structuring a document, effective use of color etc. And it's meant for LaTeX in general, not a specific package. http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/latx2pdf.html Using LaTeX to create quality PDF documents for the World Wide Web, by D. P. Story 4. The mention of "animation" supported by prosper is misleading. It does not support animated slides; I don't know if they're even supported by the PDF format. The animation is only in the transitions from one slide to another (e.g. one slide dissolving into the next). Some people may consider this cute, neat or cool, but I wouldn't call it useful or effective. 5. What I find useful in prosper is support for slide overlays (also supported by seminar and the slides class, but rather difficult to do with other LaTeX classes). This may be worth mentioning. 6. Just being pedantic: the name SliTeX is outdated by almost a decade, since it refers to a program that came with LaTeX 2.09 that was needed in order to use the slides style. In LaTeX 2e the slides class is run with the regular latex command. It is part of the base distribution. -Ron. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
