On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 07:38:19PM -0300, Ralph Boland wrote:
> > If you need bold greek letlets, use the bm package
> > (\usepackage{bm} in the preamble, and \bm{...} in the formula).
>
> I am creating a presentation using lyx/foiltex and to make my text
> clearer I like to put the text in bold. However, putting the math
> in bold as proposed above leads to a number of problems.
You mean that you want ALL text (normal text and math mode) in bold ?
I don't think that this is a good idea, but you can have your own opinion.
> Tex and thus lyx are designed to handle the formatting for you which
> for the most part is great.
> However for slides you need a lot of control over formatting.
> In particular you need to know if some text will require an extra
> line or an extra slide. If an extra slide is needed I may
> rewrite my text or shrink a figure to make it fit.
I prepared several presentations with lyx
(http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides/)
and this wasn't much of a problem.
> Some kind of control so that each slide could have its own page
> size parameters. For pages with less data it would be convienient
> to shrink the page size.
You can also change the size of the text in the slide by putting a font size
command at the beginning of the slide.
>Alternatively there would need to be some
> kind of center page command that worked like center paragraph.
Use two \vfill command (and some slide styles center the text automatically,
e.g. seminar).
