Making Powerpoint-like
Presentations with LATEX
Elizabeth Brown
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
Making Powerpoint-like Presentations with LATEX – p.2/21
Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
PowerPoint
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
PowerPoint - what to do about equations?
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
PowerPoint - what to do about equations?
LATEX pdf -several packages will do this
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
PowerPoint - what to do about equations?
LATEX pdf -several packages will do this
pdfslide or P with pdflatex
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Overview
Goal: easily make presentation-quality slides
Options:
PowerPoint - what to do about equations?
LATEX pdf -several packages will do this
pdfslide or P with pdflatex
prosper - most straight-forward; can
easily convert existing seminar slides
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Required packages for prosper
LATEX
seminar
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Required packages for prosper
LATEX
seminar
prosper
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Required packages for prosper
LATEX
seminar
prosper
hyperref
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Required packages for prosper
LATEX
seminar
prosper
hyperref
pstricks
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Required packages for prosper
LATEX
seminar
prosper
hyperref
pstricks
Other
dvips
ps2pdf (ghostscript)
Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread)
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\documentclass[ Options ]{prosper} Options:
final
\title{ Title of the presentation } draft
\subtitle{ subtitle } total
\author{ Names of the authors } nototal
\institution{ Affiliation } slideBW
\slideCaption{ caption text } slideColor
colorBG
\begin{document} nocolorBG
\maketitle ps
pdf
\begin{slide} [transition] { slide title } noaccumulate
Material for the slide accumulate
\end{slide} azure
... lignesbleues
contemporain
nuancegris
\overlays{n }{ troispoints
\begin{slide} [transition] { slide title } frames
...
Material for the slide
\end{slide} Legend
}
Mandatory or default choice
Optional
\end{document}
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slides
In seminar slides are constructed using
\begin{slide}
slide contents here
\end{slide}
Since prosper uses seminar, slides are built the
same way. However, now we include a title.
\begin{slide}{title}
slide contents here
\end{slide}
If the title is left out the letter s will become the
title.
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l
ike this
\begin{slide}[Glitter]
like this
\end{slide}
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For no title, use
\begin{slide}[Dissolve]{}
For no title, use
\end{slide}
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Transitions
Split: two lines sweep across the screen
Blinds: multiple lines appear and
synchronously sweep in the same direction
Box: a box sweeps from the center
Wipe: a single line sweeps across the screen
from one edge to the other
Dissolve: the old page image dissolves
Glitter: similar to Dissolve, except the
effect sweeps across the image
Replace: the effect is simply to replace the
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old page with the new page.
Overlays
With overlays, you can
incrementally add items to a page
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Overlays
With overlays, you can
incrementally add items to a page
replace text or images on a slide in a smooth
transition
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Overlays
With overlays, you can
incrementally add items to a page
replace text or images on a slide in a smooth
transition
How it works
each overlay treated as separate page
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Overlays
With overlays, you can
incrementally add items to a page
replace text or images on a slide in a smooth
transition
How it works
each overlay treated as separate page
material is properly alligned from page to
page to create illusion of adding material to
slide
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Overlays
With overlays, you can
incrementally add items to a page
replace text or images on a slide in a smooth
transition
How it works
each overlay treated as separate page
material is properly alligned from page to
page to create illusion of adding material to
slide
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Overlay commands
Every slide with overlays must be preceded by
\overlays{n} and enclosed in brackets
\overlays{2}{
\begin{slide}
contents of slide
\end{slide}
}
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Overlay commands, cont.
\fromSlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slides
p through n;
\onlySlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slide p
only;
\untilSlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slides
1 through p;
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Overlay commands, cont.
\fromSlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slides
p through n;
\onlySlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slide p
only;
\untilSlide{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slides
1 through p;
\FromSlide{p}. All the material following
this statement will be put on slides p through
n;
\OnlySlide{p}. All the material following
this statement be put on slide p only;
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Overlay commands, cont.
\fromSlide*{p}{mat} Puts mat on slides
p through n;
\onlySlide*{p}{mat}. Puts mat on slide
p only;
\untilSlide*{p}{mat}. Puts mat on
slides 1 through p;
Adding an to these commands causes the ma-
terial to be replaced by the material on the next
overlay.
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Text overlay – no replacement
one
\overlays { 4 }{ \overlays { 4 }{
\begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace- \begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace-
ment} ment}
\begin{itemstep} \begin{itemize}
\item one \item one
\item two \FromSlide2 \item two
\item three \FromSlide3 \item three
\item four \FromSlide4 \item four
\end {itemstep} \end {itemize}
\end {slide}} \end {slide}} Making Powerpoint-like Presentations with LATEX – p.13/21
Text overlay – no replacement
one
two
\overlays { 4 }{ \overlays { 4 }{
\begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace- \begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace-
ment} ment}
\begin{itemstep} \begin{itemize}
\item one \item one
\item two \FromSlide2 \item two
\item three \FromSlide3 \item three
\item four \FromSlide4 \item four
\end {itemstep} \end {itemize}
\end {slide}} \end {slide}} Making Powerpoint-like Presentations with LATEX – p.13/21
Text overlay – no replacement
one
two
three
\overlays { 4 }{ \overlays { 4 }{
\begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace- \begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace-
ment} ment}
\begin{itemstep} \begin{itemize}
\item one \item one
\item two \FromSlide2 \item two
\item three \FromSlide3 \item three
\item four \FromSlide4 \item four
\end {itemstep} \end {itemize}
\end {slide}} \end {slide}} Making Powerpoint-like Presentations with LATEX – p.13/21
Text overlay – no replacement
one
two
three
four
\overlays { 4 }{ \overlays { 4 }{
\begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace- \begin {slide}{Text overlay – no replace-
ment} ment}
\begin{itemstep} \begin{itemize}
\item one \item one
\item two \FromSlide2 \item two
\item three \FromSlide3 \item three
\item four \FromSlide4 \item four
\end {itemstep} \end {itemize}
\end {slide}} \end {slide}} Making Powerpoint-like Presentations with LATEX – p.13/21
Plot overlay example
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Plot overlay example
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Plot overlay example
Rejection region
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code
hyperref package
Use this package to creat links to help you move
around the document and load webpages
href URL text creates a link to a web page
hypertarget name text creates a target for a
link in your document
hyperlink name creates a link to a place in
text
the presentation defined by \hypertarget
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hyperref examples
Examples:
Department homepage
\href{http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/}
{{\green Department homepage}}
open applications
citations
a book I’m reading [?]
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Making the presentation file
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More advanced topics
creating your own background
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Helpful links
Webpage for this talk –
http://biosun1.harvard.edu/ ebrown/cwg6-6-
01.html
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code
\overlays{3}{
\begin{slide}{Plot overlay example}
\begin{center}
\onlySlide*{1}{
mfpic commands}
\onlySlide*{2}{
mfpic commands}
\onlySlide*{3}{
\begin{mfpic}[50][300]{-3.2}{3.2}{0}{.5}
\pen{5pt}
\axes
\function{-3,3,0.1}{1/2/sqrt(pi)*exp(-.5*x*x)}
\lines{(-3,0),(3,0)}
\pen{2pt} \drawcolor{blue} \headcolor{blue}
\gfill\btwnfcn{1.5,3,0.1}{1/sqrt(2*pi)*exp(-.5*x*x)}{0*x}
\arrow[l10]
\rotatepath{(1.7,.025),-120}\lines{(2.5,.02),(1.7,.025)}
\tlabel(0,-.12){\blue Rejection region}
\end{mfpic}} \end{center} \end{slide} }
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