st: Re: German Stata Users Group meetings

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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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