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Hypnos Advocate
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:03 am Post subject: XeTeX v. ConText, PGF/TikZ v. Asymptote |
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I have been happily using LaTeX/pdfTeX and beamer for my professional work. However, I'd like to take things to the next level. In particular, I would like the the following capabilities:
1) Floating graphical elements that can be referenced in the document. This is important for making impactful presentations, wherein I can highlight certain text, equations or graphics in a dynamical fashion. (beamer pause/overlays must still follow the canonical TeX document structure)
2) Unicode support, as I speak in front of international audiences and would like to easily add non-Latin text.
It seems that TikZ and XeTeX are suitable for these tasks (pgf and texlive-xetex in Portage), however having never used them I am not sure if (a) they will deliver on these requirements or (b) there are better options, a la ConTeXt and asymptote.
I would appreciate input from others who have more experience using these tools for this purpose.
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mv Watchman
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I am not sure what you mean by (1), but maybe pstricks is what you are looking for. (You must use dvips and ps2pdf to get a pdf; the pst-pdf package might help here).
Concerning (2), I have not much experience, but for most things \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} should be enough. Luatex supports utf8 natively, though for asian languages you might have a problem with available fonts for output. But cyrillic e.g. is not a problem. |
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Hypnos Advocate
Joined: 18 Jul 2002 Posts: 2889 Location: Omnipresent
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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mv wrote: | I am not sure what you mean by (1), but maybe pstricks is what you are looking for. (You must use dvips and ps2pdf to get a pdf; the pst-pdf package might help here). |
For example, if I show a mathematical expression in a frame, on the next overlay I would like to color highlight part of the expression and then show a bubble with some explanation. This kind of thing is quite natural in Keynote or PowerPoint, but seems difficult in TeX.
Quote: | Concerning (2), I have not much experience, but for most things \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} should be enough. Luatex supports utf8 natively, though for asian languages you might have a problem with available fonts for output. But cyrillic e.g. is not a problem. |
Indeed, I would likely be inputting Asian text, but thanks for the pointer. _________________ Personal overlay | Simple backup scheme |
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mv Watchman
Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 6747
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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Hypnos wrote: | For example, if I show a mathematical expression in a frame, on the next overlay I would like to color highlight part of the expression and then show a bubble with some explanation. This kind of thing is quite natural in Keynote or PowerPoint, but seems difficult in TeX. |
It is difficult, but not impossible. The beamer class provides support for the partial display, and with the mentioned pst-pdf you can add pstricks elements. Colors for highlighting are no problem anyway with the beamer class. |
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