Beamer and Lyx

[raja]

I know very little about Tex or Latex, but have used Lyx a bit. I was impressed seeing some examples of Beamer for making presentations and wanted to try it. I installed it from the Ubuntu repository, but the beamer class is not recognised by Lyx (when i try to open the examples). Does anyone have experience using Beamer with Lyx ? Can you guide me ?

[timmie]

install the latex-beamer package and its dependencies and then you should be find...

The packages is well documented...

Post if you have more problems

[kleeman]

You may have to prompt lyx to research your system to find the new package.
Fire up lyx and under Tools---> Reconfigure
Then restart lyx and you may find beamer.

There are some sample lyx files in beamer you might want to open as templates.
On the texlive packages they are here:


/usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-recommended/latex/beamer/lyx/examples

[raja]

Thanks a lot. Reconfigure did the trick. I could not find any examples in my local directories, but tried out some from the distribution of latex-beamer on sourceforge. I will explore this over the coming days. Thanks again.

[timmie]

Hi,
you don't need to take them from SF. Once latex-beamer is installed they should be on the system:


bash$: locate "latex-beamer*.lyx"
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/lyx/beamerlyxexample1.lyx.gz
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.en.lyx.gz
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.de.lyx.gz
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx.gz
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.de.lyx.gz
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/short-talks/speaker_introduction-ornate-2min.en.lyx
/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/solutions/short-talks/speaker_introduction-ornate-2min.de.lyx

[xadder]

I don't use Lyx myself, but I think powerdot is available for lyx also. powerdot is the replacement for prosper (my favourite so far) and beamer, by the same author.

[diego_baixista]

Hello guys !!!

I've followed the tip given by "timmie"...
I have installed here the "latex-beamer" package, but i stil can't export it to .pdf ...

Why should i have to do next ???


:(

[IanH]

Are you getting any sort of error messages when you try to compile?

Also, I'd second the Powerdot recommendation. I've worked with both, and Powerdot is much simpler to use (although it is a bit less powerful).

[diego_baixista]

Hi IanH

So...always when i try to view the document in .pdf format, it appears:

"There is no information to export to PDF (pdflatex)"

And also i'd like to export to latex(plain) but i don't have this option...it don't appear to me...

Do you know why it happens ??

Thanks.

[kleeman]

Sounds like you either do not have a pdf viewer installed or else you do not have the latex to pdf program (pdflatex) installed.

Use synaptic to install the packages evince and texlive-latex-base

Then fire up lyx and hit Tools----> Reconfigure to get lyx to see your newly installed programs....

[diego_baixista]

Thanks Kleeman...

The only thing that i have to do was reconfigure Lyx...hahahah

That's it !!!

Thanks a lot...:lolflag: