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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2cec4a4dcc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label slidecls</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Producing slides</h3> +<p/>Lamport’s original LaTeX had a separate program (SliTeX) for +producing slides; it dates from the age when colour effects were +produced by printing separate slides in different-coloured inks, and +overlaying them, and was just about acceptable back then. When +LaTeX2e came along, the reason SliTeX had to be a separate +program went away, and its functionality was supplied by the +<i>slides</i> class. While this makes life a little easier for +system administrators, it does nothing for the inferior functionality +of the class: no-one “who knows” uses <i>slides</i> nowadays. +<p/>The ‘classic’ alternatives have been <i>seminar</i> and <i>foils</i> +(originally known as FoilTeX). Both were originally designed to +produce output on acetate foils, though subsequent work has provided +environments in which they can be used with screen projectors (see +below). +<p/>The advent of Microsoft <i>PowerPoint</i> (feeble though early +versions of it were) has created a demand for “dynamic” slides — +images that develop their content in a more elaborate fashion than by +merely replacing one foil with the next in the way that was the norm +when <i>slides</i>, <i>foils</i> and <i>seminar</i> were designed. +<p/>The <i>prosper</i> class builds on <i>seminar</i> to provide dynamic +effects and the like; it retains the ability to provide PDF for +a projected presentation, or to print foils for a foil-based +presentation. The add-on package <i>ppr-prv</i> adds “preview” +facilities (that which is commonly called “hand-out printing”). The +<i>HA-prosper</i> package, which you load with <i>prosper</i>, +mends a few bugs, and adds several facilities and slide design styles. +The (relatively new) <i>powerdot</i> class is designed as a +replacement for <i>prosper</i> and <i>HA-prosper</i>, co-authored +by the author of <i>HA-prosper</i>. +<p/><i>Beamer</i> is a relatively easy-to-learn, yet powerful, class that +(as its name implies) was designed for use with projection displays. +It needs the <i>pgf</i> package (for graphics support), which in +turn requires <i>xcolor</i>; while this adds to the tedium of +installing <i>beamer</i> “from scratch”, both are good additions to +a modern LaTeX installation. <i>Beamer</i> has reasonable +facilities for producing printed copies of slides. +<p/><i>Talk</i> is another highly functional, yet easy-to-learn class +which claims to differ from the systems mentioned above, such as +<i>beamer</i>, in that it doesn’t impose a slide style on you. You +get to specify a bunch of slide styles, and you can switch from one to +the other between slides, as you need. (The class itself provides +just the one style, in the package <i>greybars</i>: the author +hopes users will contribute their own styles, based on +<i>greybars</i>.) +<p/><i>Ppower4</i> (commonly known as <i>pp4</i>) is a +<i>Java</i>-based support program that will postprocess +PDF, to ‘animate’ the file at places you’ve marked with +commands from one of the <i>pp4</i> packages. The commands don’t +work on PDF that has come from <i>dvips</i> output; they +work with PDF generated by PDFLaTeX, VTeX LaTeX, or +<i>dvipdfm</i> running on LaTeX output. +<p/><i>Pdfscreen</i> and <i>texpower</i> are add-on packages that +permit dynamic effects in documents formatted in “more modest” +classes; <i>pdfscreen</i> will even allow you to plug +“presentation effects” into an <i>article</i>-class document. +<p/> + +<p/>A more detailed examination of the alternatives (including examples +of code using many of them) may be found at Michael Wiedmann’s fine +<a href="http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html">http://www.miwie.org/presentations/presentations.html</a> +<p/>ConTeXt users will find that much (if not all) of what they need is +already in ConTeXt itself; there’s a useful summary of what’s +available, with examples, in +<a href="http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Presentation_Styles">http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Presentation_Styles</a> + +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>beamer.cls</i></tt><dd>Download all of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer.zip">macros/latex/contrib/beamer</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>foils.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/foiltex.zip">macros/latex/contrib/foiltex</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/foiltex.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/foiltex/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>greybars.sty</i></tt><dd>distributed with <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk.zip">macros/latex/contrib/talk</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>HA-prosper.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ha-prosper/">browse</a>) + +<dt><tt><i>seminar.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seminar.zip">macros/latex/contrib/seminar</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seminar.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/seminar/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pgf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.zip">graphics/pgf</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>powerdot.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot.zip">macros/latex/contrib/powerdot</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pp4</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ppower4.zip">support/ppower4</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ppower4.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ppower4/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>ppr-prv.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ppr-prv/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>prosper.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/prosper.zip">macros/latex/contrib/prosper</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/prosper.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/prosper/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>talk.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk.zip">macros/latex/contrib/talk</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/talk/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>texpower</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texpower.zip">macros/latex/contrib/texpower</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texpower.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/texpower/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>xcolor.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor.zip">macros/latex/contrib/xcolor</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xcolor/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=slidecls">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=slidecls</a> +</body> |