[OS X TeX] Re: Is there a Latex package for creating html slidy presentations?

[Johannes Brauer]

Thanks a lot fpr ypur hints, Lus. But I am user of powerdot  since it  
appeared. My problem is the following: I have got a lot of teaching  
material in latex and most of it to be compiled with powerdot. I  
often use links from pdf documents to anchors within other pdf  
documents. But now I am preparing to manage my courses within Moodle  
an it seems difficult for me to link from Moodle pages into pdf  
files. A few days ago I saw a Slidy presentation (http://www.w3.org/ 
Talks/Tools/Slidy/) the first time and found it fairly nice.
Compiling my latex sources to Slidy had the advantage that the  
students are not forced to change between reader and browser.  
Additionally links can be made easily from Moodle to a single slide.

Johannes
Am 11.10.2006 um 11:44 schrieb Luis Sequeira:

> I don't see the point in doing slide presentations in html, but  
> just in case you mean PDF slide presentations,
>  the answer is a resounding YES.
>
> I myself use and very much like powerdot - it is simple and  
> intuitive. It is trivial to produce great handouts from your slides.
>
>
> Some people prefer beamer. It may me more powerful, but the  
> learning curve is harder, and to me it seems bloated
> (several different ways to do things, and a huge 400+ pages manual  
> that adds to the confusion; the powerdot manual,
> by contrast, is some 30 pages long, including examples...)
>
> For very basic presentations, you can learn to use either of them  
> in about 5 minutes.
>
>
> Below is a very small example using powerdot. Note the very simple  
> \pause command to insert, er, a pause :-)
> An equivalent example in beamer is not very different (just replace  
> the "slide" environment with a "frame" environment, I think).
>
> %%% a small example
>
> \documentclass{powerdot}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{slide}{My first slide}
> Hey, my name is \pause Luis.
> \end{slide}
>
> \begin{slide}{Some Math}
> You can put anything in your slides, e.g.\pause
> $$ z^2 = x^2 + y^2 $$
> \end{slide}
>
>
> \end{document}
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