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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 index ce5bf0b9aa8..fe04ca18a8a 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <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 +<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 @@ -10,22 +10,22 @@ 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> +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 — +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 +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 @@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ by the author of <i>HA-prosper</i>. (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 +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 +<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 @@ -48,22 +48,22 @@ 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 +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” +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. +“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 +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 +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> |