> Unicode chars support. I prefer to type α instead of \alpha. This is not done by default by LaTeX, but if you can bear to \usepackage{unicode-math} then it's

> Unicode chars support. I prefer to type α instead of \alpha. This is not done by default by LaTeX, but if you can bear to \usepackage{unicode-math} then it's readily available. A life changer! Regarding presentations, what do you mean exactly? There are a lot of weirdly different beamer themes. You can even put a single verbatim block inside each slide and you'll just have a "text mode" presentation, if that is your thing.