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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html deleted file mode 100644 index 2cec4a4dcc4..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-slidecls.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,87 +0,0 @@ -<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> |