I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}."
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
Yes this is a xcolor problem. Beamer v2.10 is incompatible with xcolor v1.10 (xcolor v1.09 works), see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=600660&aid=930199&group_id=92412
I got also an error "LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined."
After downgrading to xcolor 1.09 this problem remains. When I export the template into LaTeX, I see that LyX adds the following:
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}But beamer also defines a command \boldsymbold, so I want to disable LyX's \boldsymbol as a short workaround. How could this be done?
(I'll inform the author of beamer, that he shouldn't use this command.)
p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with prosper, slide etc.?
Nevertheless this would be interesting.
regards Uwe
