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January 11, 2006

Putting arcane symbols into Powerpoint presentations

I've just written up the Idiot's Guide to Using Tex with Powerpoint. Here it is (it's only one sentence long):

Download this, find the symbol you want, and copy and paste it into your presentation.

Posted by James Hamilton at January 11, 2006 06:24 AM

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Hi,

There are slide packages you can use within any .tex distribution, and if you're on a mac, you can use the Latex Equation editor (http://evolve.lse.ac.uk/software/EquationEditor/). If you're on Linux there's a clone of this software here (http://rlehy.free.fr/), and assuming you are pc-bound, then it seems, unfortunately, like you're stuck with TexPoint.

Posted by: Stephen Kinsella at January 11, 2006 11:49 AM

My first thought was the same as Stephen's, why not just make the slides right in Tex, and generate a PDF? Unfortunately, some conference organizers and session chairs are so dumb that they will only accept Powerpoint files.

And if you give your talk off a pdf, you can't use all those cool transitions and special effects that everyone likes to use nowadays.

Posted by: John S. at January 13, 2006 06:33 AM

Actually you can use transitions in pdf presentations. In Acrobat, choose 'Preferences' from the 'Edit' menu, then click on 'Full Screen' and there's a box where you can set up all sorts of transitions. I don't know about the 'coolness' of these vis-a-vis PowerPoint (some are exactly the same), but I've used this in various talks with no problem. Nothing beyond Acrobat Reader is required on the projecting end either.

PS

Posted by: Peter Summers at January 13, 2006 08:04 AM

http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~ang/texpoint/index.html has texpoint for mac.

Posted by: ringer at January 15, 2006 02:36 PM