[Tugindia] help with presentation

[Mojca Miklavec]

Sreejith Pulloor wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have been doing presentations using powerpoint. Now when i saw some
> of the presentations/slides made using Latex, I got impressed and so I
> would like to make slides in Latex from now onwards. Could some one
> tell me how/where should i start with? Well i have basic knowledge of 
> tex.

Take a look at ConTeXt (it's not LaTeX, but it's much more powerful).

http://contextgarden.net/
http://www.pragma-ade.com/overview.htm
(for example articles/art-pres.pdf, general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf, 
general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf, general/manuals/metafun-s.pdf)

An example of simple slides:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usemodule[pre-fuzzy] % pre-

\starttext

\Topic{This is the first slide!!!}

And some text.

\Subject{Something more ...}

$$x^2+y^2=z^2$$

\Topic{Topic 2}

And some text again.

\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

It can be "compiled" with
	texexec --pdf filename
(In MikTeX you have to have ConTeXt package installed, in TeXLive it 
should work. Maybe you have to install perl also. You can try it out in 
http://live.contextgarden.net/, but it's broken at the moment.)

Mojca