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st: Re: German Stata Users Group meetings
I was waiting to announce the availability of these presentations
until I received copies of the last several talks from the
organizers, but almost all are now available at the URL indicated
below and at the corresponding page on IDEAS,
http://ideas.repec.org/s/boc/dsug07.html
The presentations are made with LaTeX beamer (http://latex-
beamer.sourceforge.net/) and you will find that a number of
presentations in SUG archives by StataCorp personnel are also done in
that format. beamer has all the advantages of powerpoint with none of
the disadvantages: it is platform-independent, does not cost
anything, produces PDFs rather than proprietary .ppt files, and as
you say produces beautiful output. Furthermore there are many
different styles (named after cities) -- equivalent to powerpoint or
Keynote 'templates', I believe -- that can change the appearance of
the slides. You can also produce a PDF of slides rather than the
'slide show' that will contain multiple copies of the same slide just
by changing two lines in the input file. And if you are concerned
with the quality of mathematics in your slides, you can be assured
that they will look professional in beamer without any futzing around
with an 'equation editor' that at the end of the day produces poorly
typeset maths.
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 Apr 15, 2007, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:
Fortunately several of the talks from the German Stata Users' Group
Meeting 2007 seems now to be available at:
http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/bocdsug07
I noticed that several of the pdf presentations use a very clean and
beautiful design(presentations from Maarten L. Buis, Christopher Baum
and Markus Hahn)- which look refreshingly different from ordinary
powerpoint-
How were these presentations produced?- Is this software or template
generally available?
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