diff --git a/content/tips/presenting.md b/content/tips/presenting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72c3a06 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/tips/presenting.md @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +--- +Title: Tools for making and giving presentations +Date: 2024-11-03 +Author: Fabrice +Category: Tips +Tags: presentation, vim, latex +Slug: presenting +Header_Cover: ../images/covers/pts24-talk.jpg +Summary: Some of the tools I use for making and giving presentations. +Lang: en +--- + +# Introduction + +Over the past year, I have to give quite a few presentations in different +contexts: internal to the company, for open-source conferences, for business +conferences… + +I use this opportunity to refine a bit my presentation tools, and I just +summarize them here for curious people. + +This page may be updated, for instance if I start using [typst] for slide making. +If you have subscribed to this blog’s [RSS feed], you will be notified of future +updates. + +# Making slides + +For slide making, I prefer using tools that separate the content from the actual +design. I’m thus not using fancy WYSIWYG tools for that. If you are not +interested in that, you can already skip to the [presenting slides] section. + +## LaTeX beamer + +As explained in the [typst article], I’m mostly using [LaTeX] to produce/typeset +documents, and presentations are not an exception. For this purpose I’m using +[beamer]. + +For this purpose, my [vim setup for LaTeX] proved to be pretty useful, even +though the backward search is not very accurate with beamer slides. + +The main advantage, besides my familiarity with [LaTeX], lays in the [overlay] +system in beamer, that is quite powerful and provides a very precise way to +display elements, especially with [TikZ] to design animated graphics. + +For instance in the example below, I can show the top part of the graph +initially, then the bottom, and change the name of the last node for the second +slide. That can be easily adjusted to have more steps in the process. + +```latex +… +\usetikzlibrary{positioning} +… +\begin{tikzpicture} + \tikzstyle{node} = [draw, rectangle, fill=blue!40, minimum height=2em] + \tikzstyle{arrow} = [->, >=stealth, very thick] + \node[node] (start) {Data}; + \node[node, right=1cm of start] (a1) {Enc($\cdot$)}; + \node<2->[node, below=5mm of a1] (a2) {Sig($\cdot$)}; + \node<1>[node, right=1cm of a1] (stop) {Encrypted Data}; + \node<2->[node, right=1cm of a1] (stop) {Encrypted and Signed Data}; + + \draw[arrow] (start) -- (a1); + \draw<2->[arrow] (start) -- (a2); + \draw[arrow] (a1) -- (stop); + \draw<2->[arrow] (a2) -- (stop); +\end{tikzpicture} +``` + +Resulting in: + +![The last image from the above code](../examples/tikz-graph.svg "The last image from the above code"){width=66%} + +Moreover, you have access to the whole latex ecosystem, especially those for neat illustrations such as [tikzpingus] + +## reveal.js + +# Presenting Slides {#presenting-slides} + +## wl-mirror + +## pdfpc + +[RSS feed]: /feeds/all.rss.xml +[typst]: https://typst.app/ +[typst article]: {filename}../software/typst.md +[presenting slides]: #presenting-slides +[LaTeX]: https://www.latex-project.org/ +[beamer]: https://ctan.org/pkg/beamer +[vim setup for LaTeX]: {filename}../software/nvim-latex.md +[overlay]: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Beamer_Presentations%3A_A_Tutorial_for_Beginners_(Part_4)%E2%80%94Overlay_Specifications +[TikZ]: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf +[tikzpingus]: https://github.com/EagleoutIce/tikzpingus