I will admit it: I am a sucker for well-typeset documents. I am a total LaTeX fanatic, and will not use anything else to prepare my manuscripts. I am in love with the perfect alignment, ability to place a dot at any pixel I would like, and the automatic numbering of my figures and references.
Naturally, I have also fallen in love with Beamer, a way to do presentations in LaTeX. Amazing color-coordinated templates, sleek outlines and presentation progress bars, and all the other familiar features of LaTeX. What else could a girl ask for?
Oh, that's right. A Beamer for presenter's clothes. Picture this: a seminar speaker using perfectly sleek Beamer slides and wearing... one washed out green button-up shirt, one white and gray checkered oversized coat with large black buttons, a pair of chaki pants, light brown shoes, and a black belt. My eyes!
The perverse incentives of academia
6 years ago
4 comments:
I will have to check out Beamer!! I love LaTeX too, but I have not tried anything but PP for presentations yet.
Wow, hard to imagine. At least you weren't wearing running shoes, like I did at my last talk. However, one point of advice-stick with solid colors, patterns really complicate things :)
I also use Beamer for everything. I tried Keynote (because it has an awesome presenter mode) but I couldn't get used to all the fiddling with fonts.
On the other hand, I have worn jeans, t-shirt and sneakers for every presentation I have ever given. Maybe I need to find more grown up clothes for my defence.
Phizzle - you should totally try it, it is awesome!
Jennie - not being dressed up is one thing (and perfectly acceptable in many cases), but combining colors that clash and distract the audience is another!
CuriousComputer - nice to meet you! I see more and more people in our field use Beamer, so I think it is here to stay. And grown up is overrated (as long as people avoid checkered coats ;)
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