[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 their "PowerPoint" >> > stuff. There ought to be prohibition of those speaking to an audience with >> > computer-generated visual aids unless the individual has taken a course in >> > how to do it. Irritates me no end to have someone read his/her "slides" to >> > me. >> >> OT questions: o you have any URL where I could find how to do a >> presentations well?
The beamer manual actually has a section discussing these issues (good presentation technique, independently of the tool used for the job). > OT remark: A lyx-example for using beamer would be nice to add to the > wiki. Links for doing presentations well would also fit in nicely there :-) Note that beamer comes with extensive LyX examples, and many LyX-specific notes (nicely highlighted by a blue LyX symbol in the margin) in the very detailed 200+ pages manual. So anyone who actually downloads beamer will immediately have far more documentation and examples than they can read. The supplied examples are lyx files, and range from very simple to quite complex, highlighting just about any task you may want to do in beamer. Beamer is absolutely superb. I just started using it recently, and I've been really blown away by both the visual quality of the output, and how well put together the whole thing is (documentation, examples, attention to detail). If anyone wants to see an example right away, written using lyx, here is one: http://amath.colorado.edu/faculty/fperez/talks/0411_python_scicomp.pdf Cheers, f
