Beamer All The Way - Victor Ivrii - University of Toronto
Beamer All The Way - Victor Ivrii - University of Toronto
Beamer All The Way - Victor Ivrii - University of Toronto
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Why <strong>Beamer</strong>?Why <strong>Beamer</strong>?When making mathematical presentation (i.e. presentation with a lot <strong>of</strong>formulae) it is only natural to use a s<strong>of</strong>tware with a built-in capability toedit them, i.e. TEX (in particular, L A TEX). As any mathematician knows itis the only s<strong>of</strong>tware which can edit mathematical formulae properly.pdf has a lot <strong>of</strong> features great for presentation and pdfL A TEX produces pdfdirectly, while L A TEX produces dvi which in turn could be converted to pdf(we need this path if we use certain packages, f.e. pstricks. Further, pdffiles could be post processed using Adobe Acrobat, gs (ghostscript), orpdftk (where gs and pdftk are freeware).On the other hand presentation is a very special kind <strong>of</strong> document,fundamentally different from an article, or a book, and it served best by aspecial documentclass. beamer is far the best and the most populardocumentclass for presentations (with powerdot being the distant second.Everything else does not deserve even a mention.<strong>Victor</strong> <strong>Ivrii</strong> (Dept <strong>of</strong> Math.) <strong>Beamer</strong> <strong>All</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Way</strong> July 23, 2013 3 / 45
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