From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 76 insertions(+) create mode 100644 macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README (limited to 'macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README') diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README b/macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3138fbff33 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/colourchange/README @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +This is the README for colourchange.sty. + +Changes colour of beamer structural elements (e.g. the bars of outerthemes). +This is done either manually or automatically. + +Don't use a colour theme or full theme (which sometimes call colour themes). +You should be OK calling inner themes and outer themes separately (although some look better than others at the moment: see bottom of readme). +You need to compile twice for it to work. + +Requires packages etoolbox and calc. +Also needs some other stuff that is loaded by beamer. +Use with other classes at your own risk. + +%------------------------------ +% Summary of commands +%------------------------------ + +\selectcolourchanges{first}{second} takes two arguments: the starting colour and the final colour of the presentation. +These should be colours already understood by beamer. +Beamer uses xcolor, so you can define colours with xcolor commands and then use them in \selectcolourchanges. +That's what I do for the defaults. + +\selectmanualcolour{colour} +Changes the structure colour. +Use between frames. +Can't guarantee this won't do weird stuff if you also have slidechange or framechange on. + +Both commands also come with an american spelling version. +\selectcolorchanges and \selectmanualcolor are defined to be the same as the above two commands. +%------------------------------ +% Summary of options +%------------------------------ + +defaultstyle +Turns on default inner and outerthemes. +Or rather, it will do soon. +That is, it turns on my favourite version of the theme, not the "beamer default" ones. +This is just a shortcut for: +\useoutertheme[footline=authorinstitutetitle]{miniframes} +\useinnertheme{rectangles} +Simple. + +draft +The draft option turns off colour changing. +Good for speeding up compilation when drafting. + +slidechange +Colour changes every slide. + +framechange +Colour changes every frame. + +%------------------------------ +% To do list +%------------------------------ + +Make sure it works with all base inner/outer themes. + - smoothbars, smoothtree do some shading-fu that breaks colourchange.sty's basic approach. +Check it doesn't hopelessly break article or handout modes +Make a .dtx + +%------------------------------ +% Other stuff +%------------------------------ + +Currently licensed under GPL v3. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html + +Original author and current maintainer: Seamus Bradley +tex@seamusbradley.net + +Many thanks to the tex.stackexchange.com community for their help. +In particular, TH's answer to this question: +http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7126/215 + +And Herbert's answer to this question: +http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/7427/215 -- cgit v1.2.3