Latex for presentations

Nowadays I use Lyx with the beamer package and compile using pdflatex. I use the Warsaw theme. I use pdf figures rather than jpeg or other rasterized images. Lettering and lines come out very clearly in pdf.

The remainder of the notes here are fairly old.

• Recently I've been using Lyx with the foils package and compiling using pdflatex and have found that the slides come out nicely. Here's an example Lyx file. I just create the pdf from the Lyx file by exporting to Latex and using pdflatex, or by exporting directly as pdf from within Lyx (which uses pdflatex).
• My old way is illustrated in this example Latex file for creating a presentation.
• If you're presenting as a pdf file read my section on pdf files for presentations
• You next need to compile and convert to format viewable on the screen - see my section under presentations
• For using pdflatex to create pdf presentations from appropriate Latex source files, check out Tim Hoar's site at NCAR's Geophysical Statistics Project.

Last modified: 12/14/08.