On 07 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote: > [snip] > As I read that doc I begin to wonder whether pure LaTeX would be the > preferred > way to make a Beamer presentation. LyX is great for 50,000 word books, but > I'm > thinking the line oriented nature of LaTeX might better match the line > oriented nature of a presentation, and I find it easier to understand in > LaTeX.
I've used plain latex with Prosper to make my slides for the last 5 years or so. Recently I decided to have a go with Lyx Beamer and am happy with the result. This is quite a large enterprise: 40 sequential sets of slides, each with up to 20 slides. The main advantage is that it is easy to modify a slide quickly and see what the result will look like at once. I used beameruserguide.pdf to learn how to do it and found it pretty helpful. There are specific pointers to Lyx in it. The main difficulties I found were working out how to use the columns environment and putting things into blocks without invoking a title (solved this by starting with Ctrl-Space). Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell
