extracted from http://www.gskeen.freeserve.co.uk/LaTeX%20Info%20&%20Links.htm
An excellent package for the production of slides is []seminar. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TeXdoc/sem-user.dvi [DVI] Seminar facilitates the preparation of slides and accompanying notes in various formats, and embellishes them by using
fancybox.sty [DVI] to produce striking borders and headings.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TeXdoc/fancybox.dvi
Colour can be used in LaTeX documents easily with []colordvi.tex. ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/knuth/local/lib/colordvi.tex This file defines commands to change colour of text locally and globally, and allows the user to specify the background colour of the document. The colour changes may not be visible until the dvi file is processed by a colour capable driver such as []dvips. http://you.genie.co.uk/keengs/latex.html#dvips (Specific information on using colour with dvips may be found
here.) More information can be found in the documentation for
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/texinfodoc/dvips.html#SEC36
the []graphics and graphicx packages.
http://you.genie.co.uk/keengs/latex.html#graphics
The graphics and graphicx packages for LaTeX2e are important for inclusion of graphics into a LaTeX2e documents. One very useful feature is that they permit the use of compressed PostScript files, which can be uncompressed 'on-the-fly' when DVI files are being processed. DVI documentation may be found []here and a PostScript http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TeXdoc/l2e-grfguide.dvi version (showing all the graphics examples) []here. The latter http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TeXdoc/l2e-grfguide.ps document offers tips on using []colour in LaTeX. Two very handy http://you.genie.co.uk/keengs/latex.html#colour guides to including graphics in LaTeX are, []Using EPS graphics in ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/documentation/epslatex.ps LaTeX2e documents. and []Figure'ing and Picture'ing LaTeX [PS] ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/documentation/figsinltx.ps
If you encounter a need for subfigures in your document, have a look at the []subfigure package. ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex2e/contrib/supported/subfigure