Presentations

• to create a suitable Latex file for a presentation, see my section on this
• hook your laptop up to a data projector: either Sh-F3 or Sh-F7 starts sending information from the laptop through to the projector
• You have several options for how to view the presentation
  1. as a pdf file, using acroread or another pdf viewer on a Windows PC. The issue here is in creating a suitable pdf file that shows both text and mathematical symbols clearly. Putting the mathematical symbols in bold is the best solution I have come up with so far for getting the math symbols to project well.
     CTRL-SH-L shows the pdf file on the whole screen
  2. as a pdf file using acroread or another pdf viewer on a Linux laptop. At one point I had a working hypothesis that viewing a pdf file through a Linux machine showed mathematical symbols more clearly than through a Windows machine, but I haven't verified this.
     CTRL-L shows the pdf file on the whole screen
  3. as a postscript file. This should show both text and mathetical symbols nicely, but you need a ps viewer on the machine, which is not standard on Windows PCs.
  4. as a dvi file. As with postscript this should show text and symbols clearly, but you need a dvi viewer. I believe there is a Windows dvi viewer called 'yap'.