Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Freedom from Powerpoint An introduction to creating clear, structured, & efficient presentations & notes for conferences and lectures with L A T EX 2 ε and Beamer Simon Angus School of Economics 11 October, 2006
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Agenda The problem; Introduction to A Better Way; The Beamer system; Fancy stuff; Some considerations ‘from the field’.
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! Idea
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! Idea Content Lecturer-notes
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! Idea Content Content Lecturer-notes Slides
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! Idea Content Content Content Lecturer-notes Slides Student-notes
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! Idea Content Content Content Content Lecturer-notes Slides Student-notes Other ... ???
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy ... Content must be laboriously created for each instance of the communication! ! Idea Content Content Content Content Lecturer-notes Slides Student-notes Other ... ???
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ;
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ; Changes to the aethsetics (unless very strictly following 2 ‘styles’) must be done in every instance ;
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ; Changes to the aethsetics (unless very strictly following 2 ‘styles’) must be done in every instance ; Mathematics not easily dealt with (is that x ij or xij !?); 3
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ; Changes to the aethsetics (unless very strictly following 2 ‘styles’) must be done in every instance ; Mathematics not easily dealt with (is that x ij or xij !?); 3 File sizes become enormous due to poor memory 4 management...
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ; Changes to the aethsetics (unless very strictly following 2 ‘styles’) must be done in every instance ; Mathematics not easily dealt with (is that x ij or xij !?); 3 File sizes become enormous due to poor memory 4 management... Leading to system crashes, difficult in moving/backing-up 5 files;
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Powerpoint/Word philosophy in practice Changes to the idea must be replicated in every 1 communication medium ; Changes to the aethsetics (unless very strictly following 2 ‘styles’) must be done in every instance ; Mathematics not easily dealt with (is that x ij or xij !?); 3 File sizes become enormous due to poor memory 4 management... Leading to system crashes, difficult in moving/backing-up 5 files; Fonts can go ‘weird’ .. not standard libraries between 6 computers.
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy ... Content created once (one file), with multiple outputs ... Idea
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy ... Content created once (one file), with multiple outputs ... Idea Content Lecturer-notes Slides Student-notes Other ... ???
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy ... Content created once (one file), with multiple outputs ... ! Idea Content Lecturer-notes Slides Student-notes Other ... ???
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1 Using tags in the text mean that aethsetic changes can be 2 made once, and flow through the document
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1 Using tags in the text mean that aethsetic changes can be 2 made once, and flow through the document Can also extract specific sections of the content, based on tags 3 for special documents (worked solutions, definitions etc.)
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1 Using tags in the text mean that aethsetic changes can be 2 made once, and flow through the document Can also extract specific sections of the content, based on tags 3 for special documents (worked solutions, definitions etc.) All files are text-based hence sizes much smaller; 4
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1 Using tags in the text mean that aethsetic changes can be 2 made once, and flow through the document Can also extract specific sections of the content, based on tags 3 for special documents (worked solutions, definitions etc.) All files are text-based hence sizes much smaller; 4 PDF format is native output, giving far less font problems; 5
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions The Beamer /L A T EX2 ε philosophy in practice Content reuse at the heart of the process: write ONCE! 1 Using tags in the text mean that aethsetic changes can be 2 made once, and flow through the document Can also extract specific sections of the content, based on tags 3 for special documents (worked solutions, definitions etc.) All files are text-based hence sizes much smaller; 4 PDF format is native output, giving far less font problems; 5 That shmick appeal (!) at conferences, and with students ... 6
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Additional features Professional quality mathematics, diagrams;
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Additional features Professional quality mathematics, diagrams; L A T EXencourages good structure to the presentation;
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Additional features Professional quality mathematics, diagrams; L A T EXencourages good structure to the presentation; Automatic generation of features that are impossible with Powerpoint/Word: Table of Contents 1 Index 2 In-presentation navigation tools 3
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Additional features Professional quality mathematics, diagrams; L A T EXencourages good structure to the presentation; Automatic generation of features that are impossible with Powerpoint/Word: Table of Contents 1 Index 2 In-presentation navigation tools 3 Fancy extensions: ps-tricks, books etc.
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Write once By far the greatest advantage of the L A T EX 2 ε approach combined with Beamer is that you only have to write the material ONCE ... This one document is then used to produce all the other kinds of output...
Introduction Beamer Features A Lecture Toolbox Extensions and Tricks Conclusions Write once By far the greatest advantage of the L A T EX 2 ε approach combined with Beamer is that you only have to write the material ONCE ... This one document is then used to produce all the other kinds of output... How is this achieved?
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