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IMPORTANT NOTE
With the agreement of Timothy Van Zandt (now Timothy.VAN-ZANDT@insead.edu),
the distributions conditions on seminar are now relaxed to:
%%
%% This file may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of
%% the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2 of this license
%% or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this
%% license is in:
%%
%% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
%%
%% and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version
%% 1999/12/01 or later.
%%
June 3rd 1999 (last updated September 2005)
Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
Denis Girou <denis.girou@idris.fr>
(Tim's helpers on earth)
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%% BEGIN sem-read.me
***********************************************************************
**** "readme" file for seminar.sty package, v1.0, 93/04/01 ****
***********************************************************************
COPYRIGHT 1993, by Timothy Van Zandt
DESCRIPTION:
seminar.sty is a LaTeX document style for typesetting slides or
transparencies, and accompanying notes. It has many advantages over
SliTeX. Here are some of the style's special features:
* It is a LaTeX style, rather than another format.
* It is compatible with AmS-LaTeX.
* You can use any fonts that work with LaTeX, including PostScript
fonts and AmSFonts.
* Slides can be landscape and portrait within the same file.
* Color is supported through PostScript.
* The slides can have a frame and a colored background.
* The magnification can be changed with a single command.
* Overlays can be produced from a single slide environment.
* Accompanying notes, such as the text of a presentation, can be put
outside the slide environments. The slides, notes or both together
can then be typeset in a variety of formats.
Some of these features require a PostScript output device.
FILES:
Inputs:
seminar.sty : The main style file.
sem-page.sty : Page parameters.
semlayer.sty : The semlayer style option (overlays and color layers).
semhelv.sty : The semhelv style option .
semlcmss.sty : The semlcmss style option.
semcolor.sty : The semcolor style option.
semrot.sty : THe semrot style option.
slidesec.sty : The slidesec style option.
sem-a4.sty : The sem-a4 style option.
xcomment.sty : The macros for omitting notes.
2up.tex : Macros for printing documents two-up.
2up.sty : The same as 2up.tex, but with .sty extension.
npsfont.sty : Macros for defining new PostScript fonts with the NFSS.
fancybox.sty : Box tips and tricks for LaTeX.
Documentation:
sem-user.tex : User's guide for seminar.sty.
sem-user.ind : Index for sem-user.tex.
semsamp1.tex : A sample document for seminar.sty.
semsamp2.tex : Another sample document for seminar.sty.
2up.doc : Documentation for 2up.tex.
fancybox.doc : Documentation for fancybox.sty.
tvz-hax.sty : For typesetting sem-user.tex and sem-code.tex.
tvz-code.sty : For typesetting sem-code.tex.
tvz-user.sty : For typesetting sem-user.tex.
sem-read.me : This file.
read-me.pst : The read-me file for the PSTricks package.
Sources:
seminar.doc : Documented code for seminar.sty.
semlayer.doc : Documented code for semlayer.sty.
xcomment.doc : Documented code for xcomment.sty.
sem-make.tex : For extracting code from seminar.doc and semlayer.doc.
sem-code.tex : For typesetting seminar.doc and semlayer.doc.
xc-make.tex : For extracting code from xcomment.doc.
xcomment.tex : For typesetting xcomment.doc.
GETTING STARTED:
1. Put the input files in a directory where your TeX looks for inputs.
2. Typeset and print sem-user.tex.
3. Read the preface "Getting Started", and then the appendices.
4. Typeset semsamp1.tex and semsamp2.tex.
5 If upgrading from v0.92, see the changes listed at the end of this
file. If upgrading from v0.91 or earlier, good luck.
HACKERS:
The files seminar.doc, semlayer.doc and xcomment.doc contain the
documented code, using Frank Mittelbach's doc system.
See sem-code.tex and xcomment.tex for instructions on typesetting
these files.
See sem-make.tex and xc-make.tex for instruction on extracting
stripped input (.sty) files from these .doc files.
MORE ABOUT THE SUPPLEMENTAL STYLES AND MACROS:
The following styles and macros are not specifically for use
with seminar.sty, and hence are not described in detail in
the seminar.sty User's Guide. You do not need to read the
documentation of these files in order to use seminar.sty.
If you have versions on your system that are older than the
ones distributed with seminar.sty, be sure to replace these.
FANCYBOX.STY:
fancybox.sty is a LaTeX style option with tips and tricks for LR-box
commands. The documentation, fancybox.doc, is extensive.
2UP.TEX:
2up.tex/2up.sty contains macros for typesetting documents in a
two-up format. seminar.sty's \twoup command provides an interface.
2up.doc is the documentation for 2up.tex.
NPSFONT.STY:
npsfont.sty contains macros for defining new PostScript fonts
with the New Font Selection Scheme. The documentation is in
npsfont.sty itself.
XCOMMENT.STY:
xcomment.sty, a LaTeX style option, permits one to typeset only
selected environments, omitting input outside these environments.
See xcomment.tex if you want to typeset the documentation.
SLIDESEC.STY
slidesec.sty is an experimental file contains sectioning commands
for slide type documents. The documentation is in slidesec.sty
itself.
SEMINAR.STY AND PSTRICKS.TEX:
pstricks.tex is a collection of PostScript macros that is compatible
with most TeX macro packages, including Plain TeX and LaTeX. Included are
macros for color, graphics, rotation, overlays, nodes and much more.
seminar.sty, combined with the semcolor option, the PSTricks package,
and your favorite macros for including EPS files, make a complete
TeX presentation software package.
You can probably obtain the PSTricks package from wherever you got
the Seminar package, or try
Princeton.EDU:/pub or Princeton.EDU:/pub/tvz
You must install the PSTricks package before using the semcolor option.
seminar.sty will work with pstricks.tex v0.92, and maybe later
versions.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The author is thankful to Frank Mittelbach for his documentation system.
Thanks to Sebastian Rahtz for bits of advice, and many users for
comments and bug reports.
BUGS:
Too many to list, and who knows what they are anyway. These files are all
preliminary and unstable. Not responsible for neck injuries.
Thanks.
CHANGES:
v1.0: Included sem-a4.sty file, as a way to let the default papersize
be A4 (The a4 option still works). Added \epsfslidesize to make
it easier to set the slide of eps files with epsf.sty. Fixed bug
which caused the width of second pages of a multi-page slide to
end up too small if the page only contained a quote or similar
environment with reduced margins.
v0.93a: Fixed bugs so that slides would come out properly with the
2-up,article and portrait options (together), and so that
slides would be positioned correctly with the portrait style
option.
v0.93:
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES:
! Use the a4 option instead of sem-a4. There is not longer a
separate file for a4.
! No more \fewnotes, \nonotes. Use \slideplacement instead.
! No more \layerstyle, \overlaystyle.
! Slide styles are now "left" and "bottom".
! No more \ifslides. Use \ifarticle\else.
! You must now use the semlayer option to use overlays (in addition
to the semcolor option).
! No "down" slide rotation (only "none", "left" and "right".
! portrait option is no longer a separate file.
! \paperwidth and \paperheight are now ordinary commands, to be set
with \renewcommand.
! \slidefonts is now always invoked in slide environments, and never in
the preamble. (But semhelv.sty and semlcmss.sty have changed to
reflect this.)
! Method for customizing the slide frames has changed.
\slideframecolor, \slideframearc, \slidefillcolor and
\slideshadowcolor are obsolete.
! \landscape command replaced by \printlandscape to avoid conflict with
other style files. (E.g., \def\printlandscape{\special{landscape}}).
NEW FEATURES:
+ A slide environment can have multiple `pages'. \extraslideheight{len}
controls page cutting. See user's guide for details.
+ \centerslidestrue (default) causes the contents of partially full
slides to be vertically centered in the slide. \centerslidesfalse
causes it to be flush top.
+ New \raggedslides[len] command, for setting
whether right margin in slides is ragged or justified. Default is
\raggedslides. \raggedslides[0pt] gives justified slides.
+ \slideplacement
+ \onlynotestoo
+ \slideskip and \slideshrink for added control over interline space.
+ New: \slideleftmargini, \slideleftmarginii, \slideleftmarginiii,
\slidelabelsep, \slideitemsep, \slidepartopsep,
\slideparskip, \slideparindent, \slidefootins, \slidefootnotesep,
\slidedisplayskips, \theslidefootnote
+ \input and \endinput now supported for the slidesonly selection.
+ New conditional: \ifportrait
+ \newslideframe
+ \leftsliderotation, \rightsliderotation.
+ New \slidetopmargin, \slidebottommargin, \slideleftmargin,
\sliderightmargin.
+ New notesonly* selection.
+ New \slidesclearpagetrue
+ New \semcm and \semin.
+ New note environment and \noxcomment command, as an alternative
to treating everything outside slide environments as notes.
BACKWARDS-COMPATIBLE CHANGES:
* \maketitle now uses LaTeX's default from article.sty in notes.
* Bug in article option with the \twoup command fixed.
* \topmargin in sem-a4 changed from -.75in to 1in.
* \slidefontsizes is obsolete (but still works). Use \ptsize instead.
* Page parameters are now in a separate file sem-page.sty. sem-a4.sty
has been changed to reflect this.
v0.92:
Mostly bug fixes, plus some extra options. The PSTricks package
is no longer distributed with seminar.sty.
Pre v0.91:
Entirely rewritten. Too many changes to list. Note especially
that system of formats and selections has changed.
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