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Simple Slides using L

AT

EX2e

This is really simple here! Michael Hahsler

Deptartment of Information Systems and Operations Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration Vienna, February 28, 2006

Features

• Uses only standard L

AT

EX commands of special commands like slidetex.

• 1. Create slides directly from a paper: Copy a few line to the

preamble of your paper’s tex file, delete or abbreviate what you don’t like to have on your slides and you are ready to go.

• 2. Create a paper form your slides: Take the L

A

T EXcode from your slides. Build some pretty sentences from your bullet points and it’s (almost) an award winning paper.

• Directly produces slides in pdf format:
• 1. Slides with slide index for presentation with Acrobat Reader,

xpdf, evince,. . .

• 2. Handouts with 2 or 4 slides per page.

Michael Hahsler 2 Vienna, February 28, 2006

Getting started

• 1. Make a copy of slides.tex, e.g,

mycopy.tex.

• 2. Adapt the first line in the Makefile

accordingly.

• 3. Edit mycopy.tex.
• 4. Create slides with make or

pdflatex mycopy.tex.

• 5. Create handouts with make 2 or make 4.

Michael Hahsler 3 Vienna, February 28, 2006

Starting a new slide

• 1. A new slide starts with a section command

\section{A new Slide}

• 2. You can use nearly all L

AT

EX-commands on your slides:

• Enumerate, itemize, description
• Mathematical Mode: e = mc2
• Verbatim: \blabla
• Font sizes: scriptsize, tiny, small, normalsize, large, Large,

LARGE, huge

• Colors: Red, Blue, Green,
• Emphasizing: \emph{Important} produces Important
• tabulars, figures . . .

Michael Hahsler 4 Vienna, February 28, 2006

Automatic spacing for lists

• automatic spacing tries to use the space on the slides as best as

possible

• automatic spacing tries to use the space on the slides as best as

possible

• automatic spacing tries to use the space on the slides as best as

possible

Michael Hahsler 5 Vienna, February 28, 2006

Setting text next to a figure

0.00 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.10 200 400 600 800 Minimum support Number of frequent 1−itemsets Artif−1 NB model

My first figure.

• To set text next to a figure

you can use the minipage environment. The Code looks like this:

\begin{minipage}[m]{.49\textwidth} \includegraphics... \end{minipage} % \begin{minipage}[m]{.49\textwidth} blablabla \end{minipage}

Michael Hahsler 6 Vienna, February 28, 2006

Text that is longer than a page

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog

Michael Hahsler 7 Vienna, February 28, 2006

The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog

Michael Hahsler 8 Vienna, February 28, 2006