On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
This is one man's opinion -- take if for what it's worth. I always make my handouts EXACTLY the same as the slideshow. No N-Up, nothing like that. They're a black and white representation of the (currently 95 page) slide show.
Steve, I've converted the slides to an article and added much more text. That will be available to the attendees at the workshop. However, I'm not about to print ~100 copies of a 24-page article to give away. They can get it from the agency's web site, my web site, or on a disk of the workshop (if one is prepared.)
By the way, my presentation/handout is done in (have mercy) OpenOffice Impress, not LyX. Customers insist on changing the handouts, so I need something Powerpoint compatible. However, my Instructor Notes are in LyX.
Before I discovered the beamer class for LaTeX/LyX I did all my presentations in mgp (MagicPoint). A very simple text file structure feeding a very good presentation engine. At a convention about 6 years ago, the designated laptop (with Winduhs) broke. Before my session, I converted the PowerPoint slides of a co-speaker (she had printed copies) to mgp in about 20 minutes and let her use my notebook for her talk. Saved her day. The PowerPoint file was > 1Mb; the mgp file was ~34Kb. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Accelerator(TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
