Colour slides with LATEX and seminar.sty
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1. Linewidth slideframewidth framesep slideframesep cornersize absolute Linearc 5cm psframebox 1 def SlideColours 1 2 gdef SlideFront color 1 slideframet Framedefault slideframe L psset fillcolor 2 fillstyle solid blueframe def blackandwhite SlideColours Black White The slide defaults will be for a detailed layout and CERN logo with yellow writing on a blue background pagestyle cernsections slideframe cern def Framedefault cern SlideColours Yellow RoyalBlue The result of this setup is show in Figure 1 Figure 2 shows how we might combine colour and seminar s overlay com Dutch TEX Users Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands mands to highlight the relationship between parts of a pro gram schema If you do not like the CERN layout we describe above or whatever your local system has provided you can roll your own to various degrees of sophistication In the simplest case you can just write a file in your local directory A A do nothing file seminar con endinput Of course it might be more sensible to build on our work by redefining the commands so that they do what you want For instance if you had the seminar con described above and wanted to change the default set up to black on white and use a plain pagestyle and frame you could add some code in front of the command begin document documentstyle seminar pagesty2. done using the PStricks macros which are automatically included by the semcolor option above The colour com mands are also defined using PStricks the code is not listed here the names are used in the colour figure newslideframetcern SlideFront boxput 0 7 1 11 psframebox linecolor black fillcolor ForestGreen fillstyle solid hbox normalsize sffamily color Black CERN FIHLA color Black Finally we make sure that each slide starts with the current foreground colour def everyslide SlideFront def theslideheading The user sets up slides with the command SlideColours with two parameters which are colour names for fore ground and background A synonym is defined for black on white We have to be a bit careful defining the frame border because by default it is coloured using the POST SCRIPT setgray operator and that might not work with colour separation so we define an explicit blue frame for variety Dutch TEX Users Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands Bijlage S EN 1 Z WM WA SOM R ROS UMM CUMIN S CUMIN January 28 1994 Introduction 1 SlideColours Yellow SkyBlue A Introducing seminar ZA Introducing seminar There is a much better ATX style file available now seminar sty if used in conjunction with a PostScript printer and a set of useful macros called PStricks this offers almost
3. pian 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in TEX s stomach On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes 2 Four fontdimens missing align 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in T X s stomach Both slide frames and page styles can be customized for instance the examples in this paper eg Figure 1 are suit able for use at the European Particle Physics Laboratory CERN Dutch TEX Users Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands Bijlage S 4 Interleaving notes and selecting subsets It is easy to intersperse your slides with notes to yourself these can be simply placed between the slide environ ments or enclosed in a specific note environment You can use any IATBX commands in these notes and include your whole article here if desired When you want to print the slides a variety of style options can be used slidesonly Only the slides are printed notesonly Only the slides are printed notes The slides are interleaved with the notes article The document notes are typeset like a normal IATEX paper and the slides are placed as figures reduced to half size The slideplacement command can be used to affect how slides are placed in the article format the pos sible parameters are float default Slides are floated float Slides are floated but if two column for
4. Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands Colour slides with IATFX and seminar sty 65 some fonts especially for mathematics are not available at the size needed If you use dvips it tries to generate these fonts but does not always find the necessary Metafont in put files to successfully complete the generation of the new font bitmaps It makes sense therefore to use scaleable POSTSCRIPT fonts the complete Computer Modern fam ily is available in POSTSCRIPT Typel format either in the commercial set from Blue Sky or Y amp Y or in slightly less polished public domain Paradissa set by Basil Malyshev 7 The local control file The seminar package always starts by trying to find a file called seminar con on the TEXINPUTS path this gives the user or site an opportunity to conveniently overwrite the defaults The seminar con file can contain any IATEX commands including inputting style files Figure 1 was typeset using a seminar con set up for CERN the con tents of this are given below with explanation of what is being done First we set up landscape macros for the dvips driver newcommand printlandscape special papersize 297mm 210mm We will assume POSTSCRIPT printers and gain nice POST SCRIPT effects like rounded box corners these will need some extra style files input semcolor sty input fancybox sty Since this setup is designed to be used in Europe where A4 paper is standard we need
5. to set up some sizes and re invoke the code to set internal parameters def paperwidth 210mm def paperheight 297mm input sem page sty slidewidth 205mm slideheight 150mm def slideleftmargin 8in def sliderightmargin 8in For slide sections list of contents etc we use another style file input slidesec sty This gives us access to various internal commands some of which are used below We can also produce a list of slides in two layouts Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 66 listofslides Ss List of Slides Introduction 3 Slides and BIEX 4 Introducing seminar 5 Normal slide with coloured background and text Frame styles 6 Frame styles Text colours and colour tables 8 Text colors 9 Colour tests 10 A multi page coloured table Colour slides with XTX and seminar sty Slidecontents Frame styles 7 Introduction y Slides and Tex y e Introducing seminar y Normal slide with coloured background and text Frame styles y Frame styles Text colours and colour tables e Text colors Colour tests A multi page coloured table 10 Z schemas built up with over 11 Z schemas built up with overlays January 16 1994 Introduction 2 January 16 1994 Frame styles 2 For slide headings there is a predefined slideheading command we will amend this so that it is typeset with a shadow A slidechapter command is also defined newcount
6. Bijlage S Colour slides with IATFX and seminar sty 63 Colour slides with IATFX and seminar sty Michel Goossens CERN Sebastian Rahtz ArchaeoInformatica 1 Slides and LATpx Many JATpxX users want to take advantage of TEX s high quality typesetting when they produce overhead slides for a presentation This facility was originally provided by a separate package SLITEX but that had a number of disad vantages e it was limited to a set of specially scaled Computer Modern fonts and it was not easy to adapt to other fonts e the user was required to have two separate files one for control information and the other for the actual slides e the control of colour and overlays was limited and crude e There was only one style for slides and writing a dif ferent layout to say put a logo on each slide was not documented IATEX users now have a variety of fonts and vast num bers of styles to choose from but SLITgX has lagged be hind When IATBX2 was released at the end of 1993 this included a simple IATEX package already available in the New Font Selection Scheme version 2 to emulate SLITEX without the overhead of a separate macro package However there is a much better IATBX package which has been available for some time now seminar sty if used in conjunction with a POSTSCRIPT printer and a set of useful macros called PStricks this offers almost every imagin able facility including Fancy f
7. e assume you have a POSTSCRIPT printer using the slideframe command On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes 2 Four fontdimens missing none 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in TRX s stomach On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes 2 Four fontdimens missing shadow 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in T X s stomach Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 Bijlage S On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes 2 Four fontdimens missing double 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in T X s stomach 7 On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes oval 2 Four fontdimens missing 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in T X s stomach i P 1 Similarly a variety of page styles the headers and footers are available with the pagestyle command such as On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes empty 2 Four fontdimens missing 3 Three nested endgroups 4 Two undefined commands 5 and a token in TEX s stomach On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 1 Five overfull hboxes 1aj 2 Four fontdimens missing
8. every imaginable facility including Fancy frames headers and footers Coloured text and tables Interleaving of annotations and slides Slide chapters and list of slides January 16 1994 SlideColours White Blue Introduction 4 Colour slides with IATFX and seminar sty 67 Slides and TFX 3 A Z Slides and ETRX J Many STEX users want to take advantage of TEX s high quality typesetting when they produce overhead slides for a presentation This facility was originally provided by a separate package SLITpx but that had a number of disadvantages e it was limited to a set of specially scaled Computer Modern fonts and it was not easy to adapt to other fonts the user was required to have two separate files one for control information and the other for the actual slides the control of colour and overlays was crude and limited There was only one style for slides and writing a different layout to say put a logo on each slide was not documented January 16 1994 Introduction 3 SlideColours Black White Normal slide with coloured background and text 5 A Normal slide with coloured bac The Urban Origins in Eastern Afric 1 Ran from 1987 to 19 development agen January 16 1994 Introduction 5 Red on gradient White JungleGreen Figure 1 Colour in slide background and foreground simulated in black and white newslideframe blueframe L psset linecolor NavyBlue
9. inchap inchapO def 1 chapslide 1 7 slide undottedcline 1 def slidechapter 1 begin slide immediate addtocontents los protect l chapslide ignorespaces protect bfseries protect large 1 gdef thechapterheading 1 7 end slide inchapO This allows the user to break the slides into groups the slide chapter title will be given in the bottom right corner with this CERN style def empty renewcommand makeslideheading 1 1 gdef theslideheading 1 def tempat 1 7 ifx O tempa empty else begin Sbox begin Bcenter lLarge textbf 1 end Bcenter end Sbox centerline shadowbox TheSbox vspace iex minus tex fi Now the CERN page and frame styles the plain cern style just places registration marks and the date Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 Bijlage S newpagestyletcern color Black small textbf t hfil today hfil textbf color Black small textbf hfil thepage hfil textbf Whereas the cernsections style has section headings and a logo newpagestyle cernsections color Black small raisebox 5cm LOcm LOcm epsfig figure cernlogo eps height 8cm hfil textbf theslideheading hfil textbf thepage small color Black today hfil thechapterheading inchap FHA For the slide frames we define a frame with the word CERN set in a coloured box on the lower left this is
10. le plain slideframe plain renewcommand SlideFront color Black begin document begin slide Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 68 Colour slides with XTX and seminar sty Bijlage S Z schemas built up with overlays January 16 1994 Text colours and colour tables 4 Z schemas built up with overlays Triangle x y z 1 January 16 1994 Text colours and colour tables 4 EN Z schemas built up with overlays A January 16 1994 Text colours and colour tables 4 Z schemas built up with overlays Triangle x y 2 3 January 16 1994 Text colours and colour tables 4 Figure 2 Slide overlays If you still would like colour backgrounds for your slides by keeping the SlideColours interface but with a plain border and no CERN logos etc you can use the following set up documentstyle seminar pagestyle plain renewcommand SlideColours L2 renewcommand SlideFront color i slideframe L psset fillcolor 2 fillstyle solid scplain begin document SlideColours Red Yellow begin slide The complete syntax of the many other commands which you have at your disposal is described in the seminar user guide you will probably also want to read the PStricks manual Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 Dutch TX Users Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands
11. mat is chosen they will span both columns here Slides are placed where they occur in the notes Further detailed control of the interaction between slides and notes is given in the User s Manual Selected slides can be included or excluded with the onlyslides or noteslides commands which a para meter of a comma separated list of slides this can be numbers ranges e g 5 10 or IATFX ref commands referring to label commands in the slides 5 Control over slide size fonts and magnific ation There are a great number of parameters by which the user can change any of the following either on a slide by slide basis or for the whole document e Slide height and width e Top bottom left and right margins e Text justification it is ragged right by default e Page breaking by varying tolerance of over running material Inter line spacing e Point size and choice of fonts How to change the default settings is explained in detail in the User s Guide Because seminar works by magnifying pages sophistic ated users should read the manual to see how to deal with setting and changing TEX dimensions Most users need not worry about this in commands like epsfig you should always express your width and height requests in frac tions of the line size anyway 6 Fonts As the size of the text on your slides is larger than that for normal text articles manuals etc often you will find that Dutch TEX Users
12. rames headers and footers Landscape and portrait slides in the same document Coloured text and tables Interleaving of annotations and slides Slide chapters and list of slides aA ARG Overlays seminar is a normal IAT X package which can be used with almost all other IATEX packages such as those to change font include graphics etc Its main job is to pro duce transparencies but it can also make accompanying notes from the same file It is compatible with AM S JATEX and IATEX 2e 2 Using the seminar style Usage is simple begin your document in the normal way with documentclass seminar Or documentstyleLlL options seminar The slide environments are begin slide end slide begin slide end slide Where slide is for landscape slides and slide is for portrait slides By default the document is typeset in land scape mode but if you include the portrait style option the document is typeset in portrait mode Typesetting the document in landscape mode is different from printing it in landscape mode you have to worry about the orientation of the page when printing but with dvips this is simple and taken care of in the local control file described below So the default output from this input documentclass seminar usepackage times begin document begin slide My talk is about begintdescription itemLCats Nice furry creatures which should have a place in e
13. very good home itemLDogs Nasty barking things which bite you l Reprint from the Annals of the UK TEX Users Group Baskerville Volume 4 1 Januari 1994 The seminar package and PStricks are the work of Timothy van Zandt tvz princeton edu We are assuming IAT X2e here just to remind you to upgrade We have added a style option output times so that the output will reduce properly to thumbnails for this article Dutch TEX Users Group NTG P O Box 394 1740 AJ Schagen The Netherlands Preprint MAPS 12 94 1 May 1994 64 Colour slides with ATEX and seminar sty itemLSnakes They come slithering through the grass and emphthave no feet this is most disturbing item Rhinoceroses textbf Never be rude to a rhino they are bigger than you and meaner end description end slide end document My talk is about Cats Nice furry creatures which should have a place in every good home Dogs Nasty barking things which bite you will look like Snakes They come slithering through the grass and have no feet this is most disturbing Rhinoceroses Never be rude to a rhino they are bigger than you and meaner 1 Most slides will be no more complicated than this using standard IATRX environments like itemize enumerate and tabular 3 Frame styles A variety of slide framing styles are available set with the framestyle command the following are some of the predefined ones Som
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