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Incredible presentations in LaTeX!

Those of us used to LaTeX know of its incredible performance, but also of its limitations. It being a typesetting program, it basically does what it wants with your input. Thus, it is in principle hard to apply to obvious wysiwyg situations, such as posters (some other entry!) and presentations. Nevertheless, some tools are available for this task. Advantages:

• Nice, portable, pdf output (unlike Power Point, whose “surprises” are well known).
• Gorgeous font, specially in equations
• Very simple “overlay” operations (disclosing a slide little by little)
• Several nice “themes” to choose from
• automatic TOCs, navigation, bibliography…
• Small, compact, ascii source code