st: Re: slide presentation by Stata employees

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

You will find numerous examples of this presentation style in Stata  
Users Group materials by non-StataCorp employees as well. It is LaTeX  
beamer, http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
A 'beamer' is the word Germans use to describe a computer projector.

beamer is the cat's whiskers. You often see the format Bobby used  
below (e.g.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/usug06/17.html
which is the style known as 'warsaw'. But beamer comes with a 200+  
page manual (pdf) and dozens of styles, which can reproduce any sort  
of effect you might like. Note also that the 'table of contents' in  
my presentation is clickable. The structure of the presentation is  
generated using standard LaTeX commands -- \section, \subsection, etc.

beamer requires no software beyond your normal LaTeX suite (for  
David, probably TeXShop for Mac OS X), produces PDFs automatically  
(no more stinkin .ppt files that require the viewer to have MS PPT!)  
and best of all, like all of LaTeX, is platform-independent (so you  
can exchange beamer presentations with coauthors using different OS)  
and is FREE.


Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Dec 17, 2006, at 2:33 AM, David wrote:


> Any one know what latex package is used by some stata people to
> present? I really like the look of this presentation on xtmixed and
> want to emulate...
>
> http://www.stata.com/meeting/4german/gutierrez_mannheim.pdf
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