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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label slidecls</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Producing slides</h3>
+<p/>Lamport&rsquo;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 &ldquo;who knows&rdquo; uses <i>slides</i> nowadays.
+<p/>The &lsquo;classic&rsquo; 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 &ldquo;dynamic&rdquo; slides &mdash;
+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 &ldquo;preview&rdquo;
+facilities (that which is commonly called &ldquo;hand-out printing&rdquo;). 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> &ldquo;from scratch&rdquo;, 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&rsquo;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 &lsquo;animate&rsquo; the file at places you&rsquo;ve marked with
+commands from one of the <i>pp4</i> packages. The commands don&rsquo;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 &ldquo;more modest&rdquo;
+classes; <i>pdfscreen</i> will even allow you to plug
+&ldquo;presentation effects&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s a useful summary of what&rsquo;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>