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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

YouJun Hu wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> How to create  simple and satisfactory slides for presentation?
> I asked this question two days ago, but got no response.
> Maybe this is such a naive/old question to ask that no one wants to waste 
> time to
> answer it.
>  
It depends if you want slides to print on transparent
plastic, or slides on a laptop screen.

In this latter case, View->Presentation mode (plus
Document->Page->Type->Automatic) is your friend
as far as being full screen is concerned.

The other part is using Insert->Fold->Switch->Standard,
plus Insert->Fold->Switch->Add branch before/after,
plus F10/F11 for walking the slides.


> Finally and fortunately, I found the solution which is too simple to be 
> called a
> solution.
>
> Q: How to create simple slides?
> A: It can be done in three Steps:
>
> Step.1: Document---style----seminar
> Step.2: Document---page----size---A5
> Step.3: Document---page---orientation :landscape 
>
> Step.3 is the new findings of today which solves my early problem.
>
> Now I can save it as pdf, then view it in full screen mode in a pdf reader.
> It looks good, though not perfect.
>
>  
I guess that for pdf slides, landscape pages the way
you did is the way to go.

Others things you could do is changing the margins,
perhaps disabling header and foooter:
<assign|page-this-footer|>
<assign|page-this-header|>

and skipping to the next page:
<new-page>

(the constructs with "<", ">" are markup, that
you can insert by means of "\".

You can see the as markup
with Document->View->Edit source tree


> I wonder how you make slides and I'm willing to hear about it.
>
>  
The usual way to do it is rather to display the
slides directly inside TeXmacs, rather than exporting
a pdf. I don't know if there is really a standard
way to export a pdf for slides, athough it should.