Creating Slides

Perhaps the simplest way to quickly make slides is to create your talk in a two column format and then enlarge an approximate 3 by 5 area for a slide using the enlargement function on the copy machine.

Slides can also be formatted using the rootfile template found in /usr/local/lib/tex/inputs directory.

1.

Copy the rootfile.tex file to your directory.

2.

To create your own slide(s) to be stored in say file talk: Hit the F11 key from Epoch (or open Epoch as discussed) and enter the name of your file.
Ex: If you want to create a slide called talk give it the name talk_s.tex

3.

The following commands must be included in file talk_s.tex:
\begin{slide}{}
Body of the slide goes here
\end{slide}

4.

Change to the rootfile.tex file. Go down to \blackandwhite{slides/naclp90_s} command.

5.

Change slides/naclp90_s to the name of your slide file, i.e. talk.
Ex: \blackandwhite{talk}

6.

Save your rootfile.tex.

7.

From a command tool window, change to the directory containing your rootfile.tex and slides. Then type slitex rootfile to produce the dvi file.

8.

Preview the dvi file by double clicking on it from your File Manager, then print, or edit as required.

9.

The slide can be produced from the laser printed paper copy of the slide by the thermofax machine (an 11 o'clock - white setting worked well for me) or by using slide sheets designed to be loaded in the copy machine (these are expensive so make sure your slides are ready for production).

Multiple slides can be in located in a single file like talk by using the

\begin{slide}{}
\end{slide}
markers between the body of each slide. Alternately the rootfile can have multiple \blackandwhite{} statements, one for each slide or group of slides.