[OS X TeX] preferred tool for presentations

Daniel Becker daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de
Mon Dec 11 03:43:52 EST 2006


> I took a look at beamer. But it seems a mighty package, not for  
> make quickly and dirty a presentation in a few hours.

Hallo,

this should get you started with beamer. It is not so complicated if  
you simply want slides with a title and a few bullets or so.

Daniel

\documentclass{beamer}%[gray]
\usepackage{pdfsync}% This is OSX specific
%LANGUAGE; FONTS
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} %hyphenation with european languages, HQ-fonts
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} %encoding
\usepackage{textcomp}%for symbols in TS1 encoding
\usepackage{color}


%\usetheme{Boadilla} %schlicht, blau
%\usetheme{classic} % mit schatten
%\usetheme{Goettingen} % mit sidebar
%\usetheme{Hannover} % mit sidebar links
%\usetheme{lined} %
%\usetheme{Madrid} %
%\usetheme{Montpellier} %
%\usetheme{sidebar} %
%\usetheme{Singapore} %

\useoutertheme{infolines}
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}


\begin{document}

     \title[short title]{long title}
     \author{author}
     \institute{workplace}
     \date{\today}

\maketitle

\frame{%
\frametitle{title for this slide}

\begin{itemize}
   \item kjh
   \item hkjhkj
\end{itemize}
}

\end{document}
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