Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
 think. 

OK. I'll look there (ps4pdf).

 Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
 dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
 information.

Spiffy ;)

   For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
 jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
 quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
 which are drawing languages. 

I also think so.

 The GIMP is raster based rather than vector based and may not be quite
 as good for your purposes as the others.

Yup, I included it 'cause  my helper plan to do some work in enhancing 
slide-shows before burning DVDs, but, sure, it's a aimed for image
processing.


   Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Right. M$ is responsible for many jokes we can laugh on ;)

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
| 
|   http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
| 
| feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
| 
| On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
|  These were really nice.
| 
|  Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
|  
|  http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
| 
| Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
windows and linux users.

-- 
Lgb

Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[chr]

On 14 Oct 2005, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 | Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
 | 
 | http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
 | 
 | feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
 | 
 | On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
 |  These were really nice.
 | 
 |  Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
 |  
 |  http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
 | 
 | Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?
 
 In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
 minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
 windows and linux users.

Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).

/Christian

-- 
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Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).


begin memory dump
Seems to me that someone posted to the group about having built a 
presentation about LyX and offered it for use by others.  I think Nirmal 
Govind was one (see 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/12792), although I 
checked the link and his presentation is no longer there.  Perhaps 
Nirmal could be persuaded to upload it to the Wiki.

end memory dump

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
 think. 

OK. I'll look there (ps4pdf).

 Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
 dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
 information.

Spiffy ;)

   For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
 jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
 quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
 which are drawing languages. 

I also think so.

 The GIMP is raster based rather than vector based and may not be quite
 as good for your purposes as the others.

Yup, I included it 'cause  my helper plan to do some work in enhancing 
slide-shows before burning DVDs, but, sure, it's a aimed for image
processing.


   Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Right. M$ is responsible for many jokes we can laugh on ;)

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
| 
|   http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
| 
| feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
| 
| On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
|  These were really nice.
| 
|  Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
|  
|  http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
| 
| Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
windows and linux users.

-- 
Lgb

Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[chr]

On 14 Oct 2005, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 | Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
 | 
 | http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
 | 
 | feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
 | 
 | On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
 |  These were really nice.
 | 
 |  Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
 |  
 |  http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
 | 
 | Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?
 
 In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
 minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
 windows and linux users.

Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).


begin memory dump
Seems to me that someone posted to the group about having built a 
presentation about LyX and offered it for use by others.  I think Nirmal 
Govind was one (see 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/12792), although I 
checked the link and his presentation is no longer there.  Perhaps 
Nirmal could be persuaded to upload it to the Wiki.

end memory dump

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>   I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
> think. 

OK. I'll look there (ps4pdf).

> Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
> dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
> information.

Spiffy ;)

>   For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
> jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
> quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
> which are drawing languages. 

I also think so.

> The GIMP is raster based rather than vector based and may not be quite
> as good for your purposes as the others.

Yup, I included it 'cause  my helper plan to do some work in enhancing 
slide-shows before burning DVDs, but, sure, it's a aimed for image
processing.


>   Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Right. M$ is responsible for many jokes we can laugh on ;)

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
| 
|   http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
| 
| feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
| 
| On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
| > These were really nice.
| >
| > Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
| > 
| > http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
| 
| Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
windows and linux users.

-- 
Lgb

Re: Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"

[chr]

On 14 Oct 2005, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 
> | Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:
> | 
> | http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX
> | 
> | feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.
> | 
> | On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
> | > These were really nice.
> | >
> | > Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
> | > 
> | > http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 
> | 
> | Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?
> 
> In the same wain... I am looking for a short Presentation of LyX. 15
> minutes tops. Target audience will be IT developers/QA people, both
> windows and linux users.

Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki
page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX

however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created
it but never added even a single link).



Seems to me that someone posted to the group about having built a 
presentation about LyX and offered it for use by others.  I think Nirmal 
Govind was one (see 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/12792), although I 
checked the link and his presentation is no longer there.  Perhaps 
Nirmal could be persuaded to upload it to the Wiki.



Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
 the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
 using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
 ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
 tools to create sections and sub-sections. 

I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.

afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?

Is the ps4pdf right solution?

I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?

Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
beamer presentation?

What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Sincerely,
Gour

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Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[chr]

Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX

feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
 These were really nice.

 Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
 
 http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 

Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

/Christian

-- 
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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/13/05, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
  the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
  using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
  ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
  tools to create sections and sub-sections.

 I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.

 afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?

 Is the ps4pdf right solution?

 I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
 compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?

 Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
 PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
 can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
 beamer presentation?

 What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Gour,

Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
is much superior to pgf.

Regards,

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Georg Baum]

Gour wrote:

 Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
 PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
 can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
 beamer presentation?
 
 What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

It is the same as with any image format: If you have a converter that
transforms svg in eps (can inkscape do that from the command line?), you
can define it in the preferences and simply include svg figures in your
document. I don't know if the standard converter can handle this
transformation.

You could also write an external template to use the LaTeX with PSTricks
macros output format of inkscape. This would be very similar to the
existing xfig template.


Georg

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
 who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
 is much superior to pgf.

So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

Does anyone have any idea which PSTricks extensions are needed for 

Inkscape -- LaTeX ?


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Angus Leeming]

Gour wrote:
 Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
 who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
 is much superior to pgf.
 
 So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
 graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
External Inset (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
with my XFig figures.

As for SVG: If you define an svg format and define converters from
svg to png, pdf and eps then you'll be able to include SVG
graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll just work.

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Angus Leeming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
 External Inset (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
 inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
 with my XFig figures.

Whoah...this is something new!!

Thank you for the pointer.

I'm still returning to LyX (after not so successful adventure in XML 
ConTeXt world :-) so I'm still not aware of all the goodies developed
in LyX in the meantime ;)

Will definitely try this approach. (Now I have problems in pdflatex-ing
Inkscape's output, i.e. trying to discern what are the extensions (aka
pacakges) needed to produce output.)

 As for SVG: If you define an svg format and define converters from
 svg to png, pdf and eps then you'll be able to include SVG
 graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll just work.

Well, SVG is not so interesting for itself, i.e. I just asked if one
can retain graphic and combine it with the LaTeX/LyX text. Otherwise,
converting the whole thing from Inkscape to .e.g. pdf, does not make
much sense, cause text on the graphic-oriented slides and text-only
slides would differ too much.

So, including Inkscape exported graphic as a template and combining it with
LyX text-capabilities is, imho, a right way to go.

btw, I saw on Inkscape mailing list there are several people migrating
from xfig :-)

Sincerely,
Gour


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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.


  Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into
the document.


afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?


  This is correct.


Is the ps4pdf right solution?


  Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
new choice, PDF4, on the View and File-Export menus. Use those.


I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it compare
with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?


  Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
and trying to select the best. What I did was consider the needs I had,
found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.


Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape can
integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in beamer
presentation?


  What are you drawing? How much time do you want to spend on each figure?
Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as PSTricks
and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with a visual editor
(such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?


What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?


  Dunno. Aren't there more than enough choices already? :-)

  What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the supposedly-bullet-proof
Windows have so few choices and those of us in the F/OSS world spend a lot of
time trying to wade through the plethora of choices. And, they're all good
ones.

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
 new choice, PDF4, on the View and File-Export menus. Use those.

I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?

   Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
 for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
 and trying to select the best. What I did was consider the needs I had,
 found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
 is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.

Still, it's very good advice. Better to master one package, then to
encounter many and know none.

   What are you drawing? 

I intend to illustrate my slides with a clipart-like drawings  combine
them with e.g. openclipart library.

 How much time do you want to spend on each figure?

This one is not easy to estimate atm.

 Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as
 PSTricks and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with
 a visual editor (such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?

No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in
into PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half
and she will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some
simple tablet. That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape  LyX.

   What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the
   supposedly-bullet-proof Windows have so few choices and those of us
   in the F/OSS world spend a lot of time trying to wade through the
   plethora of choices. And, they're all good ones.

I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?


  I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
think. Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
information.


No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in into
PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half and she
will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some simple tablet.
That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape  LyX.


  For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
which are drawing languages. The GIMP is raster based rather than vector
based and may not be quite as good for your purposes as the others.


I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)


  Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

[1] Neural Processing Unit

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Raymond Ouellette]

I'm using LyX and Beamer class these days for a presentation of Gimp 2.2.x. The 
result is great by the way! To add special effects I also use minipages in 
slides (or frames)

As for svg graphics here is my solution:

I inserted 2 small identical images, the first one is svg and the other is png 
generated from Inkscape (older Sodipodi would do the same) to illustrate the 
differences between vector and bitmap graphics. Beamer uses pdflatex as 
converter and it manages very well pdf pages.

I created with Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/] a small pdf pages (19mmx25mm) 
in which I inserted both images scaled to 17mmx20mm; I added the words 
vectoriel (vector) and matriciel (bitmap) with a 4pt Bitstream Vera font over 
each image. The choice of such a small page (correct me if I'm wrong) is 
because Beamer works with slides 96mmx128mm.

I added the small pdf page with this ERT:
\includegraphics [scale=1]{thepage.pdf}

You can scale to the wanted size, I added the option in the ERT so that you may 
use this possibility.

Finally, when you view your final presentation (in pdf format), you can view it 
fullscreen even with xpdf (3.01 is the version I use) this way:

xpdf -fullscreen presentation.pdf

But, if you use Acrobat Reader, be aware of this hidden trick: press z when a 
page is shown to switch to the zoom mode, Ctrl+= will zoom in, Ctrl+- will zoom 
out, and Ctrl+0 will go back to the original fullscreen size. Once the page is 
zoomed, you can mouve around the page by dragging with the mouse with the left 
button pressed.

Raymond Ouellette

-- 

Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
 the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
 using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
 ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
 tools to create sections and sub-sections. 

I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.

afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?

Is the ps4pdf right solution?

I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?

Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
beamer presentation?

What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Sincerely,
Gour

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Wiki page for Presentations using LyX

[chr]

Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX

feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
 These were really nice.

 Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
 
 http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 

Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/13/05, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
  the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
  using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
  ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
  tools to create sections and sub-sections.

 I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.

 afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?

 Is the ps4pdf right solution?

 I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
 compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?

 Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
 PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
 can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
 beamer presentation?

 What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Gour,

Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
is much superior to pgf.

Regards,

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Georg Baum]

Gour wrote:

 Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
 PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
 can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in
 beamer presentation?
 
 What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

It is the same as with any image format: If you have a converter that
transforms svg in eps (can inkscape do that from the command line?), you
can define it in the preferences and simply include svg figures in your
document. I don't know if the standard converter can handle this
transformation.

You could also write an external template to use the LaTeX with PSTricks
macros output format of inkscape. This would be very similar to the
existing xfig template.


Georg

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
 who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
 is much superior to pgf.

So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

Does anyone have any idea which PSTricks extensions are needed for 

Inkscape -- LaTeX ?


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Angus Leeming]

Gour wrote:
 Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
 who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
 is much superior to pgf.
 
 So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
 graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
External Inset (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
with my XFig figures.

As for SVG: If you define an svg format and define converters from
svg to png, pdf and eps then you'll be able to include SVG
graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll just work.

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Angus Leeming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

 If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
 External Inset (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
 inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
 with my XFig figures.

Whoah...this is something new!!

Thank you for the pointer.

I'm still returning to LyX (after not so successful adventure in XML 
ConTeXt world :-) so I'm still not aware of all the goodies developed
in LyX in the meantime ;)

Will definitely try this approach. (Now I have problems in pdflatex-ing
Inkscape's output, i.e. trying to discern what are the extensions (aka
pacakges) needed to produce output.)

 As for SVG: If you define an svg format and define converters from
 svg to png, pdf and eps then you'll be able to include SVG
 graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll just work.

Well, SVG is not so interesting for itself, i.e. I just asked if one
can retain graphic and combine it with the LaTeX/LyX text. Otherwise,
converting the whole thing from Inkscape to .e.g. pdf, does not make
much sense, cause text on the graphic-oriented slides and text-only
slides would differ too much.

So, including Inkscape exported graphic as a template and combining it with
LyX text-capabilities is, imho, a right way to go.

btw, I saw on Inkscape mailing list there are several people migrating
from xfig :-)

Sincerely,
Gour


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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.


  Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into
the document.


afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?


  This is correct.


Is the ps4pdf right solution?


  Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
new choice, PDF4, on the View and File-Export menus. Use those.


I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it compare
with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?


  Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
and trying to select the best. What I did was consider the needs I had,
found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.


Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format)  to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape can
integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf  inclusion in beamer
presentation?


  What are you drawing? How much time do you want to spend on each figure?
Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as PSTricks
and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with a visual editor
(such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?


What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?


  Dunno. Aren't there more than enough choices already? :-)

  What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the supposedly-bullet-proof
Windows have so few choices and those of us in the F/OSS world spend a lot of
time trying to wade through the plethora of choices. And, they're all good
ones.

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

   Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
 new choice, PDF4, on the View and File-Export menus. Use those.

I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?

   Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
 for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
 and trying to select the best. What I did was consider the needs I had,
 found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
 is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.

Still, it's very good advice. Better to master one package, then to
encounter many and know none.

   What are you drawing? 

I intend to illustrate my slides with a clipart-like drawings  combine
them with e.g. openclipart library.

 How much time do you want to spend on each figure?

This one is not easy to estimate atm.

 Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as
 PSTricks and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with
 a visual editor (such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?

No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in
into PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half
and she will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some
simple tablet. That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape  LyX.

   What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the
   supposedly-bullet-proof Windows have so few choices and those of us
   in the F/OSS world spend a lot of time trying to wade through the
   plethora of choices. And, they're all good ones.

I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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GPG Public Key  | 8C44EDCD
 

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?


  I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
think. Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
information.


No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in into
PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half and she
will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some simple tablet.
That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape  LyX.


  For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
which are drawing languages. The GIMP is raster based rather than vector
based and may not be quite as good for your purposes as the others.


I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)


  Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

[1] Neural Processing Unit

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Raymond Ouellette]

I'm using LyX and Beamer class these days for a presentation of Gimp 2.2.x. The 
result is great by the way! To add special effects I also use minipages in 
slides (or frames)

As for svg graphics here is my solution:

I inserted 2 small identical images, the first one is svg and the other is png 
generated from Inkscape (older Sodipodi would do the same) to illustrate the 
differences between vector and bitmap graphics. Beamer uses pdflatex as 
converter and it manages very well pdf pages.

I created with Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/] a small pdf pages (19mmx25mm) 
in which I inserted both images scaled to 17mmx20mm; I added the words 
vectoriel (vector) and matriciel (bitmap) with a 4pt Bitstream Vera font over 
each image. The choice of such a small page (correct me if I'm wrong) is 
because Beamer works with slides 96mmx128mm.

I added the small pdf page with this ERT:
\includegraphics [scale=1]{thepage.pdf}

You can scale to the wanted size, I added the option in the ERT so that you may 
use this possibility.

Finally, when you view your final presentation (in pdf format), you can view it 
fullscreen even with xpdf (3.01 is the version I use) this way:

xpdf -fullscreen presentation.pdf

But, if you use Acrobat Reader, be aware of this hidden trick: press z when a 
page is shown to switch to the zoom mode, Ctrl+= will zoom in, Ctrl+- will zoom 
out, and Ctrl+0 will go back to the original fullscreen size. Once the page is 
zoomed, you can mouve around the page by dragging with the mouse with the left 
button pressed.

Raymond Ouellette

-- 

Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>   I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
> the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
> using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
> ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
> tools to create sections and sub-sections. 

I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.

afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?

Is the ps4pdf right solution?

I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?

Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in
beamer presentation?

What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Sincerely,
Gour

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Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"

[chr]

Given the recent thread, I've posted some of the answers to this page:

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsUsingLyX

feel free to add more or perhaps re-structure it.

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Robert Orr wrote:
> These were really nice.
>
> Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?
> 
> http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 

Maybe they could go in as examples in the examples section?

/Christian

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/13/05, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
> > the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
> > using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
> > ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
> > tools to create sections and sub-sections.
>
> I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.
>
> afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?
>
> Is the ps4pdf right solution?
>
> I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it
> compare with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?
>
> Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
> PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
> can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in
> beamer presentation?
>
> What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

Gour,

Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
is much superior to pgf.

Regards,

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Georg Baum]

Gour wrote:

> Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
> PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape
> can integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in
> beamer presentation?
> 
> What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?

It is the same as with any image format: If you have a converter that
transforms svg in eps (can inkscape do that from the command line?), you
can define it in the preferences and simply include svg figures in your
document. I don't know if the standard converter can handle this
transformation.

You could also write an "external template" to use the "LaTeX with PSTricks
macros output format" of inkscape. This would be very similar to the
existing xfig template.


Georg

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Paul Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
> who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
> is much superior to pgf.

So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

Does anyone have any idea which PSTricks extensions are needed for 

Inkscape --> LaTeX ?


Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Angus Leeming]

Gour wrote:
>> Beamer works fine with PSTricks, as long as one uses ps4pdf. People
>> who simultaneously know very well pgf and PSTricks claim that PSTricks
>> is much superior to pgf.
> 
> So, it means one can safely use Inkscape to draw illustrations and save
> graphic as LaTeX with PSTricks extensions and use it in beamer?

If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
"External Inset" (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
with my XFig figures.

As for SVG: If you define an "svg" format and define "converter"s from
"svg" to "png", "pdf" and "eps" then you'll be able to include SVG
graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll "just work".

-- 
Angus

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Angus Leeming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> If you're being funky, you could write an Inkscape template for the
> "External Inset" (see share/lyx/external_templates) and include your
> inkscape file directly into your LyX document. I do just that all the time
> with my XFig figures.

Whoah...this is something new!!

Thank you for the pointer.

I'm still returning to LyX (after not so successful adventure in XML &
ConTeXt world :-) so I'm still not aware of all the goodies developed
in LyX in the meantime ;)

Will definitely try this approach. (Now I have problems in pdflatex-ing
Inkscape's output, i.e. trying to discern what are the extensions (aka
pacakges) needed to produce output.)

> As for SVG: If you define an "svg" format and define "converter"s from
> "svg" to "png", "pdf" and "eps" then you'll be able to include SVG
> graphics directly in the Graphcis inset and they'll "just work".

Well, SVG is not so interesting for itself, i.e. I just asked if one
can retain graphic and combine it with the LaTeX/LyX text. Otherwise,
converting the whole thing from Inkscape to .e.g. pdf, does not make
much sense, cause text on the graphic-oriented slides and text-only
slides would differ too much.

So, including Inkscape exported graphic as a template and combining it with
LyX text-capabilities is, imho, a right way to go.

btw, I saw on Inkscape mailing list there are several people migrating
from xfig :-)

Sincerely,
Gour


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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX.


  Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into
the document.


afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex?


  This is correct.


Is the ps4pdf right solution?


  Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
new choice, PDF4, on the View and File->Export menus. Use those.


I am thinking about the power of pgf (TkiZ) package and how does it compare
with e.g. metapost/pstricks ?


  Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
and trying to select the "best". What I did was consider the needs I had,
found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.


Another option would be to use e.g. inkscape (which provides LaTeX with
PSTricks macros output format) & to have pgf backe-end so that inkscape can
integrate LaTeX fonts and macros ready for pgf & inclusion in beamer
presentation?


  What are you drawing? How much time do you want to spend on each figure?
Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as PSTricks
and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with a visual editor
(such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?


What is the status of SVG support in LyX/LaTeX?


  Dunno. Aren't there more than enough choices already? :-)

  What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the supposedly-bullet-proof
Windows have so few choices and those of us in the F/OSS world spend a lot of
time trying to wade through the plethora of choices. And, they're all good
ones.

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
 Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Gour]

Rich Shepard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

>   Yes. If you follow the directions for adding ps4pdf to LyX you'll have a
> new choice, PDF4, on the View and File->Export menus. Use those.

I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?

>   Others need to address this. There are so many high quality applications
> for vector graphics that one could spend a lot of time evaluating them all
> and trying to select the "best". What I did was consider the needs I had,
> found a couple of solutions, learned to use them, and ignored the rest. This
> is not to suggest that everyone should do the same.

Still, it's very good advice. Better to master one package, then to
encounter many and know none.

>   What are you drawing? 

I intend to illustrate my slides with a clipart-like drawings & combine
them with e.g. openclipart library.

> How much time do you want to spend on each figure?

This one is not easy to estimate atm.

> Are you sufficiently fluent in one of the drawing languages (such as
> PSTricks and pgf) that you can create what you want as quickly as with
> a visual editor (such as tgif, jPicEdit, ipe and a ton of others)?

No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in
into PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half
and she will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some
simple tablet. That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape & LyX.

>   What I find amusing is that those stuck behind the
>   supposedly-bullet-proof Windows have so few choices and those of us
>   in the F/OSS world spend a lot of time trying to wade through the
>   plethora of choices. And, they're all good ones.

I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote:


I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing?


  I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I
think. Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a
dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for more current
information.


No. I'm just beginning with this stuff, and although I could dive in into
PSTricks and pgf, I'll probably get some help from my better half and she
will be more comfortable with Inkscape, GIMP...using some simple tablet.
That's why I'm talking about e.g. inkscape & LyX.


  For clipart-type images I believe that inkscape, sketch, tgif, ipe,
jpicedit and the others that let you visually assemble the image will be
quicker and easier than applications such as PSTricks, pgf, xfig, and gri
which are drawing languages. The GIMP is raster based rather than vector
based and may not be quite as good for your purposes as the others.


I fully agree, but people are belong to the weird species :-)


  Life would be very boring if we were all the same, eh?

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
 Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

[1] Neural Processing Unit

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Raymond Ouellette]

I'm using LyX and Beamer class these days for a presentation of Gimp 2.2.x. The 
result is great by the way! To add special effects I also use minipages in 
slides (or frames)

As for svg graphics here is my solution:

I inserted 2 small identical images, the first one is svg and the other is png 
generated from Inkscape (older Sodipodi would do the same) to illustrate the 
differences between vector and bitmap graphics. Beamer uses pdflatex as 
converter and it manages very well pdf pages.

I created with Scribus [http://www.scribus.net/] a small pdf pages (19mmx25mm) 
in which I inserted both images scaled to 17mmx20mm; I added the words 
vectoriel (vector) and matriciel (bitmap) with a 4pt Bitstream Vera font over 
each image. The choice of such a small page (correct me if I'm wrong) is 
because Beamer works with slides 96mmx128mm.

I added the small pdf page with this ERT:
\includegraphics [scale=1]{thepage.pdf}

You can scale to the wanted size, I added the option in the ERT so that you may 
use this possibility.

Finally, when you view your final presentation (in pdf format), you can view it 
fullscreen even with xpdf (3.01 is the version I use) this way:

xpdf -fullscreen presentation.pdf

But, if you use Acrobat Reader, be aware of this hidden trick: press z when a 
page is shown to switch to the zoom mode, Ctrl+= will zoom in, Ctrl+- will zoom 
out, and Ctrl+0 will go back to the original fullscreen size. Once the page is 
zoomed, you can mouve around the page by dragging with the mouse with the left 
button pressed.

Raymond Ouellette

-- 

Édité et transmis avec des logiciels libres sous Linux !

Presentations using LyX

[Daniel Watkins]

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/12/05, Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
 with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
 wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
 in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Daniel,

Beamer is a very nice class for presentations, and it has support for
LyX. Install it and look at its manual, which also illustrates the way
it can be used inside LyX. Furthermore, you have some examples at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


The Manual of Beamer explains it very well. The author also offers 
layout files for LyX. Have a look at:


http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

Here you find some customized presentation from me made with Beamer:

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/

(If you are interested in compiling/processing my LyX-files, I can tell you)

regards Uwe

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along with
such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was wondering if
someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used in such a way,
or point me to a website which would do the same?


Dan,

  Two other responses told you where to learn about the beamer class, but
they forgot to answer your question.

  Most presentations today use a computer and lcd projector to provide the
visual aids, which we continue to call slides. In the Microsoft world
speakers seem to be limited to PowerPoint for their slides. In the linux
world there are many choices: the three most common are OpenOffice.org's
Impress, MagicPoint (mgp123), and LaTeX/LyX. The last one, of course, is far
superior to all of the above. :-)

  LyX allows us to prepare the slides as we would preprae an article, report,
or book. Each type of document requires a class that defines the layout of
each page (or slide) as well as the entire document.

  In the LaTeX arena are several classes for slide preparation: seminar,
prosper, foiltex, and beamer. Probably more of which I am unaware. For me,
beamer is the easiest to learn and use and it produces outstanding visuals
with the usualy professional layout design for which we all use LyX/LaTeX.

  The beamer docs instruct us how to install under LyX as well as under
LaTeX. There is a well-documented tutorial and complete instructions. And, of
course, there's this mail list as well as a beamer-specific one.

  I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
tools to create sections and sub-sections. The output is a .pdf file and is
displayed using acroread (or the Windoze equivalent). Because the preparation
is done with TeX as the foundation, the output is great and we have control
over almost everything except the reaction of the audience.

HTH,

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Daniel Watkins wrote:
 I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
 with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
 wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
 in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Whilst everyone is recommending beamer (which I'm using myself btw), I just 
want to mention that there is an alternative package, which is told to be (at 
least) as powerful, called powerdot (f.k.a. ha-prosper):

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.htmlmainframeha

It also features a LyX layout file and uses PSTricks.

Jürgen

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Mael Hilléreau]

Daniel Watkins a écrit :

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


You should have a look at powerdot new LaTeX class from Hendri Adriaens 
and Christopher Ellison (first release was this summer), which to me is 
very much easier and instinctive to use than beamer and also very 
powerful (interactive table of contents on slides, easy overlays 
creations, powerful template system to easily develop new styles, and 
much more). Additionnaly, powerdot provides LyX support ;)


Here's a link to powerdot main site:

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.html?mainframeha

It is also available at CTAN:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/

Regards,

Mael.

--
Mael Hilléreau

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Robert Orr]

These were really nice.

Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 






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Presentations using LyX

[Daniel Watkins]

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/12/05, Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
 with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
 wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
 in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Daniel,

Beamer is a very nice class for presentations, and it has support for
LyX. Install it and look at its manual, which also illustrates the way
it can be used inside LyX. Furthermore, you have some examples at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


The Manual of Beamer explains it very well. The author also offers 
layout files for LyX. Have a look at:


http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

Here you find some customized presentation from me made with Beamer:

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/

(If you are interested in compiling/processing my LyX-files, I can tell you)

regards Uwe

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along with
such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was wondering if
someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used in such a way,
or point me to a website which would do the same?


Dan,

  Two other responses told you where to learn about the beamer class, but
they forgot to answer your question.

  Most presentations today use a computer and lcd projector to provide the
visual aids, which we continue to call slides. In the Microsoft world
speakers seem to be limited to PowerPoint for their slides. In the linux
world there are many choices: the three most common are OpenOffice.org's
Impress, MagicPoint (mgp123), and LaTeX/LyX. The last one, of course, is far
superior to all of the above. :-)

  LyX allows us to prepare the slides as we would preprae an article, report,
or book. Each type of document requires a class that defines the layout of
each page (or slide) as well as the entire document.

  In the LaTeX arena are several classes for slide preparation: seminar,
prosper, foiltex, and beamer. Probably more of which I am unaware. For me,
beamer is the easiest to learn and use and it produces outstanding visuals
with the usualy professional layout design for which we all use LyX/LaTeX.

  The beamer docs instruct us how to install under LyX as well as under
LaTeX. There is a well-documented tutorial and complete instructions. And, of
course, there's this mail list as well as a beamer-specific one.

  I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
tools to create sections and sub-sections. The output is a .pdf file and is
displayed using acroread (or the Windoze equivalent). Because the preparation
is done with TeX as the foundation, the output is great and we have control
over almost everything except the reaction of the audience.

HTH,

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Daniel Watkins wrote:
 I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
 with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
 wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
 in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Whilst everyone is recommending beamer (which I'm using myself btw), I just 
want to mention that there is an alternative package, which is told to be (at 
least) as powerful, called powerdot (f.k.a. ha-prosper):

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.htmlmainframeha

It also features a LyX layout file and uses PSTricks.

Jürgen

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Mael Hilléreau]

Daniel Watkins a écrit :

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


You should have a look at powerdot new LaTeX class from Hendri Adriaens 
and Christopher Ellison (first release was this summer), which to me is 
very much easier and instinctive to use than beamer and also very 
powerful (interactive table of contents on slides, easy overlays 
creations, powerful template system to easily develop new styles, and 
much more). Additionnaly, powerdot provides LyX support ;)


Here's a link to powerdot main site:

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.html?mainframeha

It is also available at CTAN:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/

Regards,

Mael.

--
Mael Hilléreau

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Robert Orr]

These were really nice.

Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 






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Presentations using LyX

[Daniel Watkins]

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Cheers,
Dan

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Paul Smith]

On 10/12/05, Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
> with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
> wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
> in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Daniel,

Beamer is a very nice class for presentations, and it has support for
LyX. Install it and look at its manual, which also illustrates the way
it can be used inside LyX. Furthermore, you have some examples at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

Paul

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Uwe Stöhr]

Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


The Manual of "Beamer" explains it very well. The author also offers 
layout files for LyX. Have a look at:


http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

Here you find some customized presentation from me made with Beamer:

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/

(If you are interested in compiling/processing my LyX-files, I can tell you)

regards Uwe

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote:


I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along with
such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was wondering if
someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used in such a way,
or point me to a website which would do the same?


Dan,

  Two other responses told you where to learn about the beamer class, but
they forgot to answer your question.

  Most presentations today use a computer and lcd projector to provide the
visual aids, which we continue to call "slides." In the Microsoft world
speakers seem to be limited to PowerPoint for their slides. In the linux
world there are many choices: the three most common are OpenOffice.org's
Impress, MagicPoint (mgp123), and LaTeX/LyX. The last one, of course, is far
superior to all of the above. :-)

  LyX allows us to prepare the slides as we would preprae an article, report,
or book. Each type of document requires a class that defines the layout of
each page (or slide) as well as the entire document.

  In the LaTeX arena are several classes for slide preparation: seminar,
prosper, foiltex, and beamer. Probably more of which I am unaware. For me,
beamer is the easiest to learn and use and it produces outstanding visuals
with the usualy professional layout design for which we all use LyX/LaTeX.

  The beamer docs instruct us how to install under LyX as well as under
LaTeX. There is a well-documented tutorial and complete instructions. And, of
course, there's this mail list as well as a beamer-specific one.

  I've used beamer to prepare the slides for two public presentations over
the past month. I've inserted tables within a slide frame, created graphics
using tgif (which are included as .eps files) and PSTricks (compiled with
ps4pdf before being inserted into the document), and used the full range of
tools to create sections and sub-sections. The output is a .pdf file and is
displayed using acroread (or the Windoze equivalent). Because the preparation
is done with TeX as the foundation, the output is great and we have control
over almost everything except the reaction of the audience.

HTH,

Rich

--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President |   Author of "Quantifying Environmental
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) |  Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"
 Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Daniel Watkins wrote:
> I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
> with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
> wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
> in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?

Whilst everyone is recommending beamer (which I'm using myself btw), I just 
want to mention that there is an alternative package, which is told to be (at 
least) as powerful, called powerdot (f.k.a. ha-prosper):

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.html

It also features a LyX layout file and uses PSTricks.

Jürgen

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Mael Hilléreau]

Daniel Watkins a écrit :

I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along
with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was
wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used
in such a way, or point me to a website which would do the same?


You should have a look at powerdot new LaTeX class from Hendri Adriaens 
and Christopher Ellison (first release was this summer), which to me is 
very much easier and instinctive to use than beamer and also very 
powerful (interactive table of contents on slides, easy overlays 
creations, powerful template system to easily develop new styles, and 
much more). Additionnaly, powerdot provides LyX support ;)


Here's a link to powerdot main site:

http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/index.html?/~hendri/Downloads/powerdot.html?mainframeha

It is also available at CTAN:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/

Regards,

Mael.

--
Mael Hilléreau

Re: Presentations using LyX

[Robert Orr]

These were really nice.

Is it possible to get a .tar.gz of this directory?

http://fkurth.de/uwest/usti/Vortrag/ 






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