Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Thanks for the tip about Impressive!  That is pretty Impressive. > Most welcome. :) > Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to > differing package names on different systems) > As for Ubuntu, I maintain a

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the tip about Impressive! That is pretty Impressive. Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems)

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > I can't help you with your LyX questions because I know little about > the LyX authoring environment, but I can give you one tip that's helped > me a heck of a lot. > > When presenting, I use one of those wireless optical mice they sell for > bet

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Ronen Abravanel wrote: > * Slow -- Doing math on slides is bad. Most of the time, the slides are too > crowded to understand, and fill-up at once, and not character by character > as one would like on the board. When I'm typing with the class, I'm keeping > on slow

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread menoncin
I sometimes use LyX as a presentation tool myself. To what has already been written, I add that for showing how a graph is created step by step I use JPicEdt http://jpicedt.sourceforge.net/site/index.php?language=en which is a WONDERFUL software by itself but whose LaTeX code can be copied

Re: LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Thomas Coffee
Hi Ronen, Very interesting ideas --- thanks for sharing. It occurs to me you could get a good start to the 2-projector solution you describe by telling your monitor setup that the screens are above & below, then stretching your LyX window vertically "across" the two. Then when you reach the end of

Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 21:56:43 +0300 Ronen Abravanel wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 > years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of > an interest to others: As a presentation tool. Hi Ronen, I can't help you with your L

LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-05 Thread Ronen Abravanel
Hello, I've been using LyX for writing notes and papers for the last ~8 years, and lately I started using lyx in a new form, that might be of an interest to others: As a presentation tool. The general idea is simple: As I teach (modern physics for EE students), instead of writing on a white-board