TITLE: Writing mathematical presentations using mathjax
QUESTION [17 upvotes]: I would like to make (simple) mathematical presentations using mathjax. Most importantly I want to be able to let text show up step by step. Does anybody here know a program that would allow me to do this without too much hazzle ?
I'm afraid that this is not the right place to ask this, but as I think other mathematicians may find this question also interesting, I hope it is ok to ask it here.

REPLY [13 votes]: Let me show you how the pros (admittedly, in other fields) do it:
Use any HTML/CSS/JS presentation library. For example, a nice one is reveal.js.
Usually, they have a sample presentation to get you started.
Add a script pointing to MathJax's CDN or to a local directory (assuming that you might not have a decent Internet connection). For example, I added this at the bottom of the sample presentation of reveal.js:
<script type="text/javascript"
    src="https://c328740.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML">
</script>

Then you're good to go. Write whatever you want to appear in LaTex-like format:
<div class="reveal">

    <!-- Any section element inside of this container is displayed as a slide -->
    <div class="slides">

        <section>
             <h1>Reveal.js</h1>
             <h3>Latex Presentations Made Easy</h3>
             <p>
                $$\frac{1}{n}\sqrt{e^\frac{1}{n} - e^\frac{1}{n+1}}\sim\frac{1}{n^2}$$
             </p>
             <p>
            <small>Created by <a href="http://hakim.se">Hakim El Hattab</a> / <a href="http://twitter.com/hakimel">@hakimel</a></small>
             </p>
         </section>
        ... 
    </div>
</div>

The result should be something like this:

In addition of this, reveal.js (and a bunch of other libraries) allow you to write your presentation in Markdown, quotes, snippets of code, link to other slides in your presentation, export your presentation to PDF, among other features.