Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Easy LyX Beamer products

When making presentations in LyX with the Beamer template, one often wants to make three PDFs every time: slides, handouts, and handouts+notes. Here are some scripts to do this. You will need Cygwin installed if you are on Windows.

Command-line version:
In Windows I've added this functionality to the right-click menu for LyX files. It requires the slightly modified script below. To edit the right-click menu I use the FileMenu Tools utility. In a new entry, set the program as a shell (I've tested git -- "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" and cygwin -- "C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe"). For arguments put "absolute/path/to/beamer_outputs.sh %FILENAME1%".

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