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1 A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using Department of Computer Science The University of Iowa Iowa City, IA April 8, 2009 A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

2 Some info on L A TEX L A TEX is a typesetting language which makes creating professional documents of any type but is generally used in the mathematical sciences. You start with a.tex file. You compile this to a.dvi file. Then you convert this to a.ps file. Finally, you convert this to a.pdf file. Installing L A TEX on a PC 1 Install some L A TEX distribution. MiKTeX is a good one. 2 I highly recommend getting a nice editor. LEd is a popular one. You need to configure it with your L A TEX distribution before you can use this editor. More info can be found on the LEd website. A good tutorial for L A TEX can be found here. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

Installing L A TEX on a PC 1 Install some L A TEX distribution. MiKTeX is a good one. 2 I highly recommend getting a nice editor. LEd is a popular one.

3 Some info on L A TEX There are two main modes in which beamer works. 1 Text mode (which we have been in the entire presentation) 2 Math mode ( n i=1 1 i = log n) Virtually any symbol you can think of, L A TEX can provide. Most symbols that you might want to use can be found here. For a (very large) pdf of more symbols than you could possibly want to deal with, look here. Some symbols require a package that does not come with L A TEX. In most such cases, MiKTeX will install any missing packages. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

TEX can provide. Most symbols that you might want to use can be found here.

4 Why? You can quickly create professional presentations. Writing mathematical formulas is easy after a small amount of practice. Presentations are in pdf format and can be run on any operating system. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

5 Why not? Animation is not as easy as in Powerpoint. You have to compile it every time you want to view what you are doing, a downside to L A TEX in general. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

6 There are several themes from which you can choose. A gallery of some of the themes can be found here. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

7 Blocks Block 1 You can use blocks (which this is contain in) to help organize your presentations. Block 2 Each theme will display blocks differently. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

8 Columns Block 3 You can create columns to organize your data like so. Block 4 You can set the columns to be as wide as you want. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

9 Columns Smaller Block This column takes up 30% of the page. Wider Block This column takes up 70% of the page. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

10 Columns Over the columns This is over the columns. Block 3 You can create columns to organize your data like so. Block 4 You can set the columns to be as wide as you want. Under the columns This is under the columns. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

Block 4 You can set the columns to be as wide as you want.

11 You can add figures to your presentations. In order to get animation, you need to have several slides overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best of my knowledge). Domatic Partition A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best

12 You can add figures to your presentations. In order to get animation, you need to have several slides overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best of my knowledge). Domatic Partition A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

13 You can add figures to your presentations. In order to get animation, you need to have several slides overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best of my knowledge). Domatic Partition A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

14 You can add figures to your presentations. In order to get animation, you need to have several slides overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best of my knowledge). Domatic Partition A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

15 You can add figures to your presentations. In order to get animation, you need to have several slides overlayed with the figure changing each time (to the best of my knowledge). Domatic Partition A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

16 You can create an overlay effect using the pause command. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

17 You can create an overlay effect using the pause command. This creates a different page in your pdf. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

18 You can create an overlay effect using the pause command. This creates a different page in your pdf. While it can be handy, it can make your pdf be quite large if you do it on every slide. A Tutorial on Creating Presentations Using

While it can be handy, it can make your pdf be quite

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TU/e Slides using Beamer. Marko Boon marko@win.tue.nl. May 1, 2006. /department of mathematics and computer science 1/17

TU/e Slides using Beamer. Marko Boon marko@win.tue.nl. May 1, 2006. /department of mathematics and computer science 1/17 TU/e Slides using Beamer Marko Boon marko@win.tue.nl May 1, 2006 /department of mathematics and computer science 1/17 Outline PDF Presentations using L A T E X Using the TU/e Beamer Theme TU/e Theme Options