17 Presentation Material

So far we have assumed that the output of a LATEX project is to be printed on paper or an electronic document that looks like printed paper displayed on the computer monitor.

Another important type of output is presentation material, the visual support displayed in front of an audience during an oral presentation. Traditionally, this consisted of a set of slides to be projected onto a screen, but in more recent times this has been replaced by viewgraphs (or transparencies) and an overhead projector, giving the speaker much more interactive control over the presentation. However, the truly modern presentation is done electronically, with the entire presentation stored in a computer directly connected to the projector; ...

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