Tullio Facchinetti

Speed up the compilation of LaTex Beamer presentations

This is definitely stolen from this blog post from Tobias Brink.

Large LaTeX beamer presentations compile slowly, especially if there are a lot of images. While working on the slides, it can help to only compile some of them. In order to avoid commenting them out, you can simply use

Workflow for writing theses collaboratively

In the last few years I have been supervisor of tens of students (I keep an updated list here). In some periods I had to manage the concurrent writing of 5-6 theses. This huge parallel work called to develop a specific workflow to manage the collaborative writing of a thesis, which I find rather effective and that I will share in this article.

Guidelines for theses and presentations

LaTeX is one of the tools more commonly used to write a thesis and a long scientific text in general.

In this article I will report some guidelines to write a thesis using LaTeX.

Inklayers: a program to generate PDF animations from SVG images

Inklayers was born to make the editing of “animated” PDF presentations with LaTeX Beamer easier.

The PDF format do not actually allow animations, but a similar effect can be obtained with a sequence of slides.

Guidelines per tesi e presentazioni

LaTeX è uno degli strumenti più utilizzati per la scrittura di testi elaborati come una tesi di laurea.

Di seguito sono riportate alcune linee guida per la realizzazione di tesi in LaTeX, e per la realizzazione di presentazioni delle tesi stesse.