talk.cls -- A LaTeX class for presentations



Abstract
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The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen
presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print
personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure
information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides.
The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like
beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary
number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to
slide. This way the slide layout can be adapted to the slide content. For
example, the title or contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different
layout than the other slides.

The talk class makes no restrictions on the slide design whatsoever. The entire
look and feel of the presentation can be defined by the user. The style
definitions should be put in a separate sty file. Currently the package comes
with only one set of pre-defined slide styles (greybars.sty). Contributions
from people who are artistically more gifted than me are more than welcome!


Requirements
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The talk class requires the packages

        amsmath,
        pgf,
        multido,
        hyperref.

They can all be obtained from http://www.ctan.org. For further documentation see
talkdoc.pdf.


License
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This material is subject to the LaTeX Project Public License. See

        http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/licenses.lppl.html

for the details of that license.


Changes
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v. 1.0.1:

- Typesetting slides in minipages now, thus allowing for footnotes.

- Added commands for changing colours in greybars.sty. Thus renamed greybars
  to sidebars.

v. 1.0.2:

- \title and \author commands now support short versions as optional arguments.

- Problem with the papersize in screen mode under pdflatex fixed.

v. 1.1:

- talk is now compatible with and requires pgf version 1.18.

- talk no longer requires the graphicx package.

- \@makeslide is now executed inside a pgfpicture environment. Existing style
  packages may have to be adapted.