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Why should I use LaTeX for presentations?

At the risk of getting downvoted ... Why should I use LaTeX for presentations? Most likely you should not. Beamer encourages bad presentation practices. This is not just about Beamer vs ...
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Why should I use LaTeX for presentations?

I'm using beamer because of its comprehensive and partly unique features: Math: With LaTeX the best mathematical layout is available Sketches: With the tikz package any technical sketch or diagram is ...
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verbatim overlays of powerdot do not comply with TeXlive 2020 latex, whereas everything's fine with latex in TeXlive 2019

powerdot has a clear bug here: It use \@inputcheck, which is the number of a read register, to write verbatim files and at the end then closes the file handle: \immediate\openout\@inputcheck\jobname....
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Which package to use for presentations? Beamer, Prosper, or Other

I prefer OpTeX with \slides in the preamble. It is much more simple than beamer, the source code is more readable and transparent. See OpTeX slides for more details. I have a lot of positive feedback ...
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Problem with powerdot and siunitx

The problem arises because both powerdot and siunitx have a class/package option mode. Since the powerdot option must be passed as a class option (it doesn't seem to be able to be set using the \...
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Powerdot paper orientation (or page width?) suddenly changed

call dvips with the option -landscaperotate dvips -landscaperotate file Newer version of dvips no longer rotate the media box if landscape is used. (See e.g. https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2021-...
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Adding the sections in the header in beamer

The miniframes outer theme seems to be what you're looking for: \documentclass{beamer} \useoutertheme{miniframes} \begin{document} \section{first section} \begin{frame} contents \end{frame} \begin{...
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Presentation using LyX

Something like this? This is the way in plain LaTeX: \documentclass[notes,handout]{beamer} % PREAMBLE \usetheme{Madrid} % optional \setlength{\paperwidth}{12cm} % for the MWE only \setlength{\...
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How to get 16:9 aspect ratio output with powerdot document class?

You can duplicate powerdot and create a custom class my-powerdot by replacing \def\pd@tempa{papersize={900pt,1440pt}} with \def\pd@tempa{papersize={594pt,1056pt}} which is a 16:9 ratio for ...
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Output difference between MacTeX 2015 and 2017 with powerdot class

The solution is to update to at least the 2017-07-23 version powerdot. Using TeX Live 2017 Test file %% %% This is file `powerdot-example1.tex', %% generated with the docstrip utility. %% %% The ...
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Output difference between MacTeX 2015 and 2017 with powerdot class

Just after posting the question, I found a MiKTeX bug report that describes the same issue, and indicates the fix: adding -L0 to the dvips invocation. This fixed the issue for me.
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powerdot produces vertical clock in smartboard papersize

This looks like a bug in powerdot. In the code that positions the clock there is a check for orientation (line 653 in powerdot.cls) that incorrectly results in the clock being rotated for the ...
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cannot run minimal example of powerdot

At a certain point, the class has to execute (within an \xdef) \expandafter\the\csname c@\pd@tempa\endcsname where \pd@tempa runs over all counters to be protected (the predefined list has table, ...
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Powerdot paper orientation (or page width?) suddenly changed

A friend had the same issue when he was using paper=screen. I could reproduce in my computer and I found that changing to paper=a4paper seems to work. Regarding: %%%% WARNING: Transparency operations ...
Cassio Neri's user avatar
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How could I fix pgfplots' clash with powerdot's clock option?

I realized that the situation is not so recent and MWE is reproducible even in TeXLive 2020. The error seems like a result of uninitialized overlays at least on one of the slides. Therefore, a ...
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Changing clock position in a powerdot slide template (\pddefinetemplate[slide]{slide})

Here is an example making use of all available clock setting options provided by Powerdot. Some options go into \pdsetup, others into \pddefinetemplate. The clock is moved to the bottom left corner ...
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Break slides in powerdot

I figure out a trick: to use \onslide* feature of powerdot. To simulate the feature, put the following in the preamble \newcount\slidenum \slidenum=2 \newcommand{\framebreak}[1]{\onslide*{\slidenum}{#...
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How to use subsections in a powerdot presentation?

Depending on the effect you're trying to achieve, you might be able to get what you want by combining the slide=true and tocsection=false options. For example: \documentclass[style=sailor,size=12pt]{...
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Shortening compile time with large eps files when using pstricks and dvips

Pass the .eps file through the eps2eps utility. The Mathematica-generated file gets smaller and the eps figure is nearly instantly included using the latex command.
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Why should I use LaTeX for presentations?

It occurred to me that there could be another reason to use TeX for presentations, which is of course applicable to all TeX documents: the convenience of using source control and diff tools to track ...
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