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1. 8 dmaxwidth option 8 dmindots option 8 dminheight option 8 dminsize option 8 dminwidth option 8 dprop option emptyslide environment enumerate option fleqn option frsep option hlentries option hlsections option iacolor option ifsetup option inactive color indent option item itemize option lcolwidth option leqno option 1f option 1f option lfrheight option lfrprop option lineheight option lineprop option list option logocmd option logohook option logopos option maketitle method option mode option nopsheader option note environment ntoc option 42 o xonslide coh n E A Gi 13 Nonslide ac dces stone ir ae enaa 13 Nonslide 2 2 ne e 13 orient option esses 3 P palette option 5 paper option sees 3 Apause 4 225 Sg keen UE OMEN avers 11 pd noportrait sss 29 pd sectiontitle 34 pd slidetitle 34 pd title s iaae i eee ee eee eee 34 pd tocdisplay 31 pd tochighlight 31 pd tocsection 4 31 pd tocslide s sess 31 pddefinelyxtemplate 37 pddefinepalettes 27 pddefinetemplate 28 Mpdifsetup je bere eed 29 Apdsetup ies Gad
2. compute b end code end slide begin slide method file Slide 3 Steps 1 and 2 begin code compute a pause compute b end code end slide end document The first slide shows the default behavior for normal content It produces two overlays The second slide does not produce overlays despite the use of the pause command This command has been disabled by choosing the direct method to process the ver batim content The third slide has the same body as the second slide but now does create two overlays because the method using a temporary file has been chosen No tice that we used pause inside the listing but that it can also be used outside the listing 6 5 The twocolumn command The twocolumn macro allows to split content into two columns twocolumn options left right This typesets left and right in two columns The dimensions of those columns can be controlled by options Below are the available options lineheight If lineheight is specified a line of the specified height will be created using Npsline in between the two columns Example lineheight 6cm Any pstricks declaration to specify the line properties Example 18 options lfrheight lfrprop options rfrheight rfrprop options lcolwidth rcolwidth option frsep option colsep option topsep option bottomsep option indent lineprop linestyle dotted linewidth 3pt lfrheight 1frprop
3. mode print This mode can be used when printing the slides including their visual markup but without any overlay or transition effects This mode will produce a black and white overview of your slides that can be used to make personal notes on for distribution to students a personal guide during your talk etcetera nopagebreaks By default the handout mode produces a document with two slides per page If you want to fit more slides on a page specify this option in the documentclass command and powerdot will let TEX decide on the places to insert a page break namely when a page is full option This option has three possible values The preset value is screen paper paper screen This is a special format with screen optimized ratio 4 3 The actual page di mensions will be 8 25 inch by 11 inch This paper format is not available for print or handout mode In these modes powerdot will switch to a4 paper and put a warning that it did this in the log file of your presentation paper a4paper A4 paper will be used for the presentation or handout paper letterpaper Letter size paper will be used Some important information with respect to paper size compiling and viewing pre sentations is available in section 8 option This controls the orientation of the presentation The preset value is landscape orient orient landscape The presentation will be in landscape format This value is not ava
4. Documentation powerdot The powerdot class Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison v1 3 2005 12 06 Abstract powerdot is a presentation class for IATX that allows for the quick and easy de velopment of professional presentations It comes with many tools that enhance presentations and aid the presenter Examples are automatic overlays personal notes and a handout mode To view a presentation DVI PS or PDF output can be used A powerful template system is available to easily develop new styles A LyX layout file is provided Contents 1 Introduction 2 9 Creating your own style 26 9 1 Generalinformation 26 2 Setting up the presentation 2 9 2 Defining palettes 27 2 1 Document class options 3 9 3 Definingtemplates 28 Pik SeIHIRODHOHB pagus di qeu d 3 9 4 Controlling setup 28 3 Making slides 9 9 5 Main components 29 3 1 The title slide 9 9 6 Slidetoc 31 3 2 Otherslides 9 9 7 Miscellaneous options 32 9 8 Template presets 33 4 Overlays 10 9 9 Thebackground 33 4 1 The pausecommand 11 9 10 Title slide titles and sections 34 4 2 Listenvironments 11 9 11 Testing the style 34 4 3 The itemcommand 12 4 4 The onslidecommand 13 10 Using LyX for presentations 35 4 5 Relative overlays 14 10 1 Howto use the layout 35 10 2 Support of syntax 36 5 Presentation structure 14 10 3 Compiling with LyX 37 et Making SECHORS ee nae
5. P Let s look at an example that uses these optional arguments begin slide toc bm LaTeX i i 1 color red LaTeX i 2 1 My slide contents end slide In this example the slide title will appear as BIFX i 1 This text will not render correctly in a bookmark entry An attempt is made to correct this but often the correc tion does not produce an equivalent text This particular title would be rendered in the bookmark list as redLaTeX i2 1 On the other hand the manually specified book mark entry is rendered as LaTeX i i 1 Notice no entry is created in the table of contents because of the use of toc In addition to the slide environment each individual style can define its own en vironments Many styles have a wideslide environment The idea is that one might have information that does not fit nicely on a slide with a table of contents listed as this consumes some space In such cases it is preferable to use a slide that does not list the table of contents The wideslide environment provides this functionality and has more space for the actual slide content See section 7 for information on the various environments provided by the styles 4 Overlays It is often the case that you don t want all the information on the slide to appear at once Rather the information should appear one item at a time In powerdot this is achieved with overlays Each slide can be comprised of many overlays and the overlays
6. The first creates a frame of the specified height around the left column The second is as Lineprop but for the left frame rfrheight rfrprop As 1frheight and lfrprop but for the right frame lcolwidth rcolwidth Width of the left and right columns Both are preset to 0 47 linewidth frsep Space between text and the frames Preset 1 5mm colsep Space between the two columns Preset 0 06N1inewidth topsep The extra space additional to baselineskip between text above the columns and the text within the columns Preset Ocm bottomsep Idem for the bottom of the columns Preset Ocm indent Horizontal indent left to the left column Preset Ocm The dimensions described above are represented graphically in figure 1 Important to notice is that the twocolumn macro uses the current cursor position as the refer ence point to position the first line of text of the left column see also figure 1 This means that optional frames can extend to the text on the previous line Use for in stance topsep 0 3cm in that case to add extra space between the two lines of text The preset value of topsep is based on the situation that there is no text on top of the two columns In that case it is best to locate the first line of text of the left column at the same spot as text that is not created by twocolumn on other slides The setting topsep 0cm does exactly this However with a combination of topsep a
7. With his kind permission this style has been converted for powerdot The style has a background that is hatched with light gray horizontal lines Titles and table of contents highlighting are done with dark red Example slide Here is the binomium formula arora Q EET Ez We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison w Here Example of the ciment style eds December 4 2005 PET a with elcolors This is a style using light shades of the elementary colors red blue and yellow Example slide Here is the binomium formula a b n an kpk enr Den We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Example of the elcolors style Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison m Here December 4 2005 is aa 22 aggie This style was created by Jack Stalnaker for HA prosper and he has converted this style for powerdot The style uses dark red and light brown colors Example slide Here is the binomium formula 2497 Y weh Example of the aggie style We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison or Hee is December 4 2005 ea list a with seven items husky This style is created by Jack Stalnaker and has a background of light gray sun beams combined with dark red highlights Example slide Here is the binomium formula Example of the husky style a Y s a HendrrAdisens V c iclcen We wil
8. ntochook t1 ntocpos ntocwidth 2 slidewidth ntocfont tiny raggedright tocorient v stocorient v ntocorient v tocfrsep 5mm tocsecsep 2ex tocslidesep 0ex tocsecm toctcolor black tochlcolor black tochltcolor white tocsecindent Opt tocslideindent Opt 1fhook B1 1fpos 1ffont scriptsize 1ftemp pd lf rfhook Br rfpos rffont scriptsize rftemp pd 0 rf ifx pd rf G empty else ifx theslide empty else fi fi theslide iacolor lightgray clockhook tr clockpos clockwidth 3cm clockheight baselineskip clockcharsize 14pt clockalign 2 clockcolor black 9 9 The background This leaves only one argument of the pddefinetemplate macro undiscussed This is the commands argument This argument can contain any code that you want to execute after setting the options and before building the slide components like the slide title main text and footers This argument is designed to contain declarations that will build the background of a template using for instance pstricks but it can also hold other commands you might need for building your template Important to notice is that these commands may not create TpX material as that might destroy the construction of the slide So if you want to place the word Hello in the bottom left corner of the slide don t type Hello but make its width height and depth equal to zero for instance by using pstricks rput 33 pd slidetitle pd title pd sectiontitle
9. 14 15 16 Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens The BTEX Companion Tools and Tech niques for Computer Typesetting Addison Wesley Boston Massachusetts 2 edi tion 2004 With Johannes Braams David Carlisle and Chris Rowley Sebastian Rahtz and Heiko Overdiek hyperref package CTAN macros latex contrib hyperref Hideo Umeki geometry package CTAN macros latex contrib geometry Herbert Vo PSTricks website http pstricks tug org Timothy Van Zandt et al PSTricks package v1 07 2005 05 06 CTAN graphics pstricks Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to Mael Hill reau for contributing the LyX layout file and de scription Further we like to thank all style contributors see section 7 Moreover we wish to thank everyone who contributed to this package in any other way Ramon van den Akker Pavel ek Darren Dale Hans Marius Eikseth Morten Hogholm Andras Horvath Laurent Jacques Akira Kakuto Uwe Kern Kyanh Theo Stewart Don P Story and Herbert Vo We hope not to have forgotten anyone Version history For more information on bug fixes typeset the source code documentation see sec tion 12 v1 0 2005 09 04 General Initial release kr wie yee be ae OE MER RE SE ee ee 1 v1 1 2005 09 19 General blackslide options adds hyperlink to slide and section titles 1 Added elcolors aggie husky and sailor styles llle lees 1 Added tocsecindent and tocslidei
10. Improved figure and table handling Revised docs Solved some small bugs Updated all styles Updated LyX example and information Index Numbers written in italic refer to the page where the corresponding entry is described numbers underlined refer to the code line of the definition numbers in roman refer to the code lines where the entry is used Symbols font option lesse 30 height option 30 hook option 4 30 orient option 31 pos option 200 30 temp option lesse 30 width option 30 A Nando src VERSER iih ER 9 yat hor S585 odo 55 ect ee Amat 9 B blackslide option 5 bm option 0 2 eee 10 bottomsep option 19 C clock option 206 5 clockalign option 33 clockcharsize option 33 clockcolor option 33 clockheight option 33 clockhook option 33 clockpos option 33 clockwidth option 33 colsep option 19 content option 16 counters option 6 D Ndate soe AL e RAUS 9 dbright option 0 8 display option 4 dmaxdots option 8 dmaxheight option 8 dmaxsize option
11. NeedsTeXFormat LaTeX2e 1995 12 01 ProvidesPackage powerdot default 2005 10 09 v1 2 default style HA RequirePackage pifont See for more information about these commands a BIEX manual for instance 12 Palette or color definitions This section contains the definitions of palettes or colors that you want to use in the style powerdot uses xcolor via pstricks Hence for more information about colors see the xcolor documentation We will discuss palettes in more detail in section 9 2 Template definitions We will come back to this in sections 9 3 to 9 9 Custom declarations These can include anything that you want to be part of the style The default style for instance includes definitions for the labels in list environments like itemize and some initializations for lists in general done with Npdsetup see section 2 2 This part could also include some customizations as described in section 9 10 Font initializations This initializes font definitions which can be done by loading a package like helvet 9 2 Defining palettes We will be defining templates formally in section 9 3 For now it s enough to have the general idea that a template controls the design ofa slide Palettes are sets of colors that color a template or design A palette does not change the overall design of a template The following command can be used to define palettes for your style pddef inepalettes namel cmds1 This macr
12. options sectemp widesectemp rput b1 0 0 Hello 9 10 Title slide titles and sections As mentioned before the style that you write needs to define at least the templates slide and titleslide The latter treats some of the keys in a special way Besides a section slide is also done in a special way The title slide made with Nnaketitle puts the title with author s and date in the main text box This means that you have to supply a position for the main text box textpos It will use the main text font for the text together with declarations in the textfont key for the author s and the date But it will use the declarations in titlefont for the title of the presentation This is done so that title and author s form a coherent block and to make sure that long titles can push down the author s instead of overwriting it The pd slidetitle macro is used to typeset the slide title on slides This macro is comparable to for instance pd tocslide The macro takes one argument which is the slide title in the right font and formatting By default this macro just passes on the content for typesetting but you could redefine this macro so do something with its input prior to typesetting it An example is in the fyma style which underlines the title after putting itin a minipage to support multi line titles These macros are similar to pd slidetitleand typeset the title on the title slide and the title on section slides respectively By
13. E 10 4 Extending the layout 37 5 2 Makinganoverview 15 6 Miscell ip 11 Questions 38 ISEE ATEgus 11 1 Frequently Asked Questions 38 61 Notes soas iak e 16 11 2 Mailinglist 39 6 2 Emptyslides 16 i a ORAS 6 3 Bibliography slide 17 12 Source code documentation 40 6 4 Verbatimonslides 17 6 5 TheNtwocolumncommand 18 References 40 7 Available styles 20 Acknowledgements 41 8 Compiling your presentation 25 Version history 41 8 1 Dependencies 25 8 2 Creating and viewing output 25 Index 42 This class can be downloaded from the CTAN mirrors macros latex contrib powerdot See powerdot dtx for information on installing powerdot into your IAIgX distribution and for the license of this class 1 Introduction This class gives you the possibility to easily create professionally looking slides The class is designed to make the development of presentations as simple as possible so that you can concentrate on the actual content instead of keeping yourself busy with technical details Of course some knowledge of BIFX is still required though This class builds on and extends the prosper class 9 and the HA prosper package 1 The HA prosper package was initially intended to extend prosper and correct some bugs and problems of that class As developments on that package progressed it was found that unfortunately not all of the problems could be overcome with the package That discovery was the start of a new pro
14. Q6 A6 Q7 A7 Ndocumentclass powerdot usepackage pst node begin document begin slide Color onslide 2 cnode 0 5pt 2pt A This is onslide 2 color red red text onslide 2 cnode 0 5pt 2pt B onslide 2 ncline A B end slide end document Do I need to edit style files to change a style a bit No you do not need to edit any style file You can change any part of a certain style using the pddefinetemplate and pddefinepalettes commands Here is an ex ample that removes the right footer from the default style moves the left footer to the center and adds another palette documentclass powerdot pddefinetemplate slide slide 1fhook Bc 1fpos 5 slidewidth 04 slideheight rfpos lan pddefinepalettes mypalette definecolor pdcolori rgb 27 31 44 definecolor pdcolor2 rgb 85 85 92 definecolor pdcolor3 rgb 8 75 98 Y pdsetup lf My presentation palette mypalette Y begin document begin slide Title end slide end document See section 9 for more information about these two commands Can I contribute to this project Certainly If you find bugs or typos please send a message to the mailinglist see section 11 2 If you have developed your own style that is distinct from existing styles and would like to see it included in powerdot please inform us by private e mail and we will consider your contribution Not
15. a tycja This style is set in shades of yellow and dark blue The table of contents on slides is on the right side of the paper in landscape orientation and on the bottom part in portrait Example slide I Here is the binomium formula es n n p Example of the tycja style nd l e b A i Chstopher Elson We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard m Here December 4 2005 is a ikeda This style uses dark shades of red and blue and a light text color It has nice patterns on the slide for decoration 21 Example slide jomium formula Example of the ikeda style fyma This style was originally created by Laurent Jacques for prosper Based on that style he created a version for HA prosper with extended features With his kind permission this style has been converted by Shun ichi J Amano for powerdot The style has an elegant design with a light blue and white gradient background in the default blue palette Other available palettes are green gray brown and orange It has special templates for sections on slides and sections on wide slides Below is a sample of the blue palette Example slide Here is the binomium formula Saye Example of the fyma style Dots x 1 0 We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison e Here December 4 2005 ciment This style was originally created by Mathieu Goutelle for prosper and HA prosper
16. a way to structure your presentation This is discussed in section 5 Section 7 will show an overview of the styles that come with this class and the characteristics of each style Section 8 will tell you more about how to produce output This section contains important information on required packages Section 9 is mostly interesting for people that want to develop their own style for this class or want to modify an existing style Section 10 explains how LyX 6 can be used to create powerdot presentations This documentation concludes with a section devoted to questions section 11 like Where can I find examples It also tells you where to turn to in case your questions are still not solved 2 Settingup the presentation This section will describe all options that are available to control the output of the presentation and the looks of it 2 1 Document class options We will start with the class options that are typed in the documentclass command as a comma separated list For each option the preset value will be mentioned in the description This is the value that will be used if you decide to not give a value to the option or not use the option at all option This options controls the kind of output that we want to produce The preset value mode is present mode present This mode is used when you want to create the actual presentation It will enable overlays and transition effects You can read more about overlays in section 4
17. are displayed one at a time 5The bookmarking procedure uses pdfstringdef from the hyperref package and it can process ac cented characters such as V i 10 pause 4 1 The pause command The easiest way to display information sequentially is to use the pause command pause number Below is a simple example begin slide Simple overlay power pause dot end slide The slide s information is displayed and continues until the pause command is en countered No further output within the same slide is displayed until the click of the mouse or the touch of the keyboard Then the content will continue to display until all the information is displayed or until another pause command is encountered In this example power is displayed on the first overlay and powerdot is the displayed on the second overlay The pause command is often used within the itemize and enumerate environments For example begin slide Multiple pauses power pause dot pause begin itemize item Let me pause ldots pause item ldots while I talk pause and chew bubble gum pause item Perhaps you ll be persuaded Mitem Perhaps not end itemize end slide Since pause was used before the itemize environment no item will appear until the third overlay Then each item will be displayed one at a time each on their own overlay More information on using lists will follow in the next section The optional argument of the pause
18. can be used in the options argument is the name of the component postfixed by its property that you want to control The components title text toc stoc and ntoc have properties hook pos width and font Additionally the text component has a height property The com ponents 1f and rf have properties hook pos temp and font Hence examples of valid keys are titlefont tocpos and 1ftemp All components and properties will be discussed below Here is an overview of the components that can be controlled from the options argument in pddefinetemplate title The slide title text The main text box on the slide toc The full table of contents on a slide containing sections and slides stoc This is a table of contents containing only the sections See also ntoc below ntoc This is a table of contents containing only the entries for the active section To gether with stoc this can be used to create a split table of contents In a partic ular template one would usually have a toc a combination of stoc and ntoc or no table of contents at all 1f The left footer option rf option hook option pos option width option height option font option temp The right footer Notice that all positioning of components described above will be done with rput from pstricks 15 16 internally See the pstricks documentation for more information about this command It should also be noted
19. cece hated wed 5 R randomdots option 7 rcolwidth option 19 rf Option een ee ae a ree 6 rf option sisate ne n aa DEEE a 30 rfrheight option 19 rfrprop option 19 S Nsavevalue d c eed gh 20 sectemp option 34 NSECELON Lp eR Iv ce ole alg Bite de 14 Size Option wee 4 slide environment 9 43 slide option 15 stoc option 0 29 style option 06 4 T tableofcontents 5 15 template option 15 text option 29 thebibliography environment 17 thenote option 6 theslide option 6 NE3tleU c AA Lege tb A CIMA 9 title option 29 toc option 008 10 toc option creen chivas hee 29 tocfrsep option 31 tochlcolor option 32 tochltcolor option 32 tocsecindent option 32 tocsecm option 32 tocsecsep option 32 tocsection option 15 tocslideindent option 32 tocslidesep option 32 toctcolor option 32 topsep option 19 trans option 6 twocolumn 00 0c eee 18 type option 12 1
20. command specifies the number of overlays to pause An example usage is begin slide Pause longer begin itemize item A pause item B pause 2 item C end itemize end slide In the example above item C will appear on the fourth overlay The usefulness of this option will become more apparent in the next section so we will revisit a similar ex ample at that time 4 2 List environments The list environments itemize and enumerate have special treatments in powerdot They have an optional argument that will be taken care off by the enumitem package see 4 powerdot supplies an extra key for this optional argument In the examples that follow features will be described using the itemize environment but they also apply to the enumerate environment Here is the typical usage of the itemize environment begin slide Basic itemize begin itemize item A pause item B pause item C end itemize end slide 11 option type item The display is simple each item appears one at a time with each overlay Suppose we wanted every item to show but we only wanted one item to appear active at once This can be accomplished via the type option for the itemize envi ronment The preset value is 0 begin slide Type 1 itemize begin itemize type 1 item A pause item B pause item C end itemize end slide Now every item will be displayed in the inactive color which is defined b
21. default these also pass there argument which is the presentation title or section title but these can be redefined to do some thing with the input prior to typesetting it just as pd slidetitle The section command uses by default the slide environment and puts the section title in the title box with font titlefont Ifyou want to change the default use of the slide environment for sections to for instance the sectionslide environ ment or any other especially designed section template change the section template preset in your style using setkeys pd section sectemp sectionslide This means that if the user asks for template slide in the section command the sectionslide environment will be used silently To avoid surprises sectionslide should preferably be based on the slide environment A similar option is available in case the user asks for template wideslide One could for instance do the following setkeys pd section widesectemp sectionwideslide Whenever the user requests a wideslide to be used for a section instead the sectionwideslide environment will be used Other input to the template key by the user does not get a special treatment Notice that these keys are available in the section family of keys and that you cannot use them in the pddefinetemplate command 9 11 Testing the style powerdot has a test file that should test most of the style This test file can be produced by running BIFX over powerdo
22. number are non empty will be inserted in between them to separate them Styles might modify this default behavior however 3 Making slides 3 1 The title slide The title slide is created by the maketitle command maketitle options Its use is the same as in the standard BIFX document classes The optional argument options can contain any option from section 2 2 2 Specifying such an option in the maketitle command will only have an effect on the title slide and not on other slides See an example below documentclass powerdot title Title author You and me datef August 21 2005 begin document maketitle end document The author title and date declarations provide the text to be used when making a title page The design of the title page is specific to the style in use Notice the use of and for separating multiple authors See a BIX manual 12 for more information on commands such as Ntitle and Nauthor 3 2 Other slides The centerpiece of every presentation is the slide In powerdot the content of each slide is placed in a slide environment begin slide options slide title body end slide In section 4 we ll see how to give some life to the slides but for now let s look at a simple example begin slide First slide Hello World end slide option toc option bm The slide environment has one required argument namely the slide title When a slid
23. set the minimum and maximum dots per slide Preset values are 5 and 40 respectively dminsize dmaxsize The minimum and maximum radius of the dots Preset values are 5pt and 40pt respectively dminwidth dmaxwidth dminheight dmaxheight These options determine the area on the slide that can be used for the random dots These values are preset such that dots go anywhere on the slide but you might want to adjust these such that for instance dots can only appear in the text area The preset values are Opt slidewidth Opt slideheight Here is an example that allows dots in a smaller rectangle on the slide pdsetup dminwidth 1 slidewidth dmaxwidth 9 slidewidth dminheight 2 slideheight dmaxheight 8 slideheight This option can be used to adjust the brightness of the dots The number should be an integer between 100 and 100 If the number is negative the color will be adjusted towards black with 100 giving black If the number is positive the color will be adjusted towards white with 100 giving white With a light back ground you may want to choose bright to be positive With a dark background you may want to set it negative The preset value is 60 meaning a mixture of 40 of the original color and 60 white This option is used for passing extra parameters to the psdot command which creates the random dots You could for instance change the style of the dots or the line width See for more info
24. that all components except 1f and rf put their content in a minipage environment Now we list all properties of the components listed above and describe what they mean Remember that keys are formed by combining a component name and a prop This option defines the rput hook that will be used when positioning the item This can be t1 t tr r Br br b b1 B1 1 B and c See the pstricks documenta tion for more information This defines the position of the hook on the paper The lower left corner of the paper is given by the point 0 0 and the upper right corner by the point slidewidth slideheight So if you want to position the main text box at 20 from the left edge and 30 from the top edge of the paper you have to do the following textpos 2 slidewidth 7 slideheight Ifthe position of any component has not been specified this component will not be placed on the slide This gives an opportunity to design slides without footers or table of contents for instance The width of the component All component positioned by powerdot will be put in a surrounding minipage environment The width property determines the width of the minipage Example textwidth 7 slidewidth This property does not exist for the 1f and rf components This option is only available for the text component In other words for this property there is only one key namely textheight This can be used to specify the height of the minipage used for
25. 04 07 19 required article class 1 4f 2004 02 16 tested geometry 14 3 2 2002 07 08 tested hyperref 13 6 74m 2003 11 30 tested graphicx 5 1 0f 1999 02 16 tested verbatim 1 5q 2003 08 22 tested Table 2 Dependencies not support all PostScript specials and hence these will display the presentation incor rectly If your DVI viewer does support this make sure that your DVI display settings match that of the presentation In case you are using the screen paper you should set the DVI display setting to using the letter paper format If your DVI viewer allows for custom paper formats use 8 25 inch by 11 inch Note that certain things that are produced with PostScript or PDF techniques will not work in a DVI viewer Examples are hiding of material via postscript layers as is done for instance by pause see section 4 and hyperlinks for instance in the table of contents If you want to produce a postscript document run dvips over the DVI without any particular command line options related to orientation or paper size powerdot will write information to the DVI file that helps dvips and ps2pdf ghostscript to create a proper document If you have some reason that this does not work for you and you want to specify the paper and orientation yourself you should use the nopsheader option that is described in section 2 The PostScript document could for instance be used to put multiple slides on a page using the psnup utility To create a PD
26. 5 U usevalue 0 0 00 ee eee 20 V verbatim option 17 WwW widesectemp option 34
27. C gt Table of contents You will need an ERT box if you want to use the optional argument see below Table 3 Supported powerdot commands in LyX Environment Method in LyX itemize Use Itemize and ItemizeTypei environments The latter will create a list with type 1 see section 4 2 enumerate Use Enumerate and EnumerateType1 environments thebibliography Use Bibliography environment Table 4 Supported powerdot environments in LyX 10 3 Compiling with LyX First of all make sure that you have also read section 8 Then in order to get a proper PostScript or PDF file you have to set your LyX document properties depending on which paper and orientation you want When your LyX document is open go to the Layout gt Document dialog In the Layout pane put the nopsheader orient and paper keys as class options see section 2 1 for a description Then go to the Paper pane and select corresponding paper size and orientation you may choose letter paper in the case you set paper screenin the class options Finally go to the View or File gt Export menu and select your output PostScript or PDF 10 4 Extending the layout If you have created a custom style see section 9 which defines custom templates you may want to extend the layout file so that these templates are also supported in LyX The explanation below assumes that you have defined a template called sunnyslide To support this new template in LyX you have to use the
28. F document for your presentation run ps2pdf over the PS file created with dvips Also here you can leave out any command line arguments related to paper size or orientation If this is problematic for you somehow use the nopsheader option as before and specify the paper and orientation at each intermediate step yourself 9 Creating your own style 9 1 Generalinformation Writing or customizing powerdot styles is simple If you want to modify a style or build a new one locate the style that you want to use as basis in your TEX tree styles are named as powerdot lt style_name gt sty copy that and rename it as to avoid li cense or naming conflicts You might want to install the new style in your local TEX tree to be able to access it from any place on your hard drive See your BIFX distribution for more information Once that has been taken care of we can start creating the style We strongly rec ommend to study a style file for example powerdot default sty while reading the remainder of this section as it provides good examples for the content of this section A style has several components We describe these components below Identification and packages This identifies the package in the log of a presentation and loads all required packages The default style contains something like 10The XTEX Public Project License requires renaming files when modifying them see http www latex project org lppl 26 pddefinepalettes
29. a template is A template is a collection of set tings for slide components together with custom definitions which controls the visual appearance of a slide A style can contain multiple templates Npddefinetemplate basis name M options commands This defines the environment name to produce a slide with characteristics deter mined by basis options and commands We will discuss these elements in more detail in the coming sections If you want to create several templates that differ only slightly from each other define a basis template and then use it to define other templates All options and commands for the new template name will be appended to the existing list of options and commands from the basis template Make sure you choose a proper name for the template and avoid redefining exist ing templates or environments powerdot defines blackslide note and emptyslide internally so you shouldn t use these names unless you know what you re doing Fur thermore each style needs to define at least the templates slide and titleslide The titleslide environment will be used to create the title slide and slide will by default also be used to create section slides Titles and sections are a bit special in the way they use the options and will be discussed in more detail in section 9 10 9 4 Controlling setup The options keys are described in the following sections You can control how these options app
30. also section 9 6 for more information about the construction of the table of contents 9 6 Slide toc The small table of contents that is placed on slides can be controlled by four macros and several options These macros take one argument When building the table of contents powerdot first passes the content through pd tocslide or pd tocsection depending on the type of entry that it is building at that moment You could for instance do def pd tocslide 1 bullet 1 def pd tocsection 1 1 which will prefix all normal entries not the sections with a bullet By default these two macros are defined to just pass on their argument These two macros also take one argument After processing an entry with the com mand pd tocslide or pd tocsection powerdot continues building the entry by passing it through pd tocdisplay when the entry needs to be displayed only or pd tochighlight when the entry needs to be highlighted These macros are a little more involved and take care of putting the content in the proper font and color in a minipage Further pd tochighlight also puts a box around the item Notice that by default both the separate table of contents entries as well as the table of contents as a whole are typeset in minipage environments by these macros in case the table of contents is vertical The width properties then determines the width of the table of contents and together with tocsecindent and tocslideindent see
31. as our first pause example Yet it is clearly the case that our syntax is more complicated How ever this slight complication also allows for much more flexibility Consider the above example with the following modifications begin slide Simple onslide texttt onslide onslide 1 power onslide 2 dot texttt onslide onslide 1 power onslidet 2 dot end slide The onslide command displays its content in a different manner altogether Now dot appears on every overlay but it is in inactive color and matches the normal font color only on overlay two This is comparable to the type 1 behavior for lists see section 4 2 When executing this example we will also notice that the onslide command does hide material but still reserves the right amount of space for it on overlay 2 the dots appear right above each other The next command does not reserve space Instead of hiding and reserving space onslide or putting text in the inactive color onslide when the overlay doesn t match overlays this command just eats the material altogether To understand the differences consider the following exam ple begin slide Simple onslide texttt onslide onslide 1 power onslide 2 dot texttt onslidet onslide 1 power onslide 2 dot texttt onslide onslide 1 power onslide 2 dot end slide The output of the first two lines we are already familiar with The third line di
32. below the width of the individual entries If it is horizontal only the separate entries will be in minipages and the table of contents itself not and the width properties determine only the width of the individual entries together with tocsecindent and tocslideindent Several aspects of the process of generating the table of contents can be controlled via the keys that are available in the pddefinetemplate command that will be de scribed below If these keys do not provide enough handles to do what you want you might need to have a look at the two macros in the source and decide to rewrite them in your style as to fit your needs An example can be found in the fyma style This length is the distance between the box around the content created by the minipage and the highlight frame box created by pd tochighlight Preset 0 5mm option tocsecsep option tocslidesep option tocsecindent option tocslideindent option tocsecm option toctcolor option tochltcolor option tochlcolor option iacolor tocsecsep The distance inserted before a section unless it is the first element in the table of contents Preset 2ex Notice that if the orientation of the table of contents is set to vertical this length creates a vertical skip otherwise it creates a horizontal tocslidesep D The distance inserted before other entries unless it is the first element in the table of contents Preset Oex Like tocsecsep the e
33. e is created the slide title is used to create an entry in the table of contents and in the list of bookmarks The table of contents is a listing of the slides and section titles in the presentation that appears on each slide The table of contents is clickable when the presentation is compiled into PDF and serves as a nice way to jump from location to location within the presentation The bookmark list is only present when compilation is taken all the way to the PDF file format It also serves as a table of contents but this list does not appear on any of the slides but in a separate window in a PDF viewer In the example above the entries in both table contents and the list of bookmarks would be titled First slide The options for the slide environment can contain any option listed in sec tion 2 2 2 Additionally the following options can be used toc When specified the value is used for the entry in the table of contents otherwise the slide title is used If toc is specified then no entry is created When specified the value is used for the bookmark entry otherwise the slide title is used If bm is specified then no entry is created These optional arguments are especially useful when the title of a slide is extremely long or when the title contains IBIEX commands that do not render correctly in the bookmarks When specifying entries be sure to hide special characters and between curly brackets and
34. e available to slides created by section as well see section 3 However when the section does make a tocsection toc or bm won t remove the table of contents entry or the bookmark respectively 5 2 Making an overview This command creates an overview of your presentation and can only be used on a slide Ntableofcontents options There are several options to control the output of this command This option controls whether certain material depending on the input in the content option below will be hidden or displayed in the inactive color The preset value is 0 Compare with the type option for list environments section 4 2 When material is not of the requested type as specified in the content option it will be hidden As type 0 but instead of hiding material it will be typeset in the inactive color 15 option The content option controls which elements will be included in the overview The content preset value is all The description below assumes that type 0 was chosen but the alternative text for type 1 can easily be deduced content all This will display a full overview of your presentation including all sections and slides except the slides in hidden sections see section 5 1 content sections This displays only the sections in the presentation content currentsection This displays the current section only content future This displays all content starting from the current slide content futu
35. e preset value is true tocsection true This does create a section in the table of contents This means that all following slides until the next section will be nested under this section tocsection false This does not create a section in the table of contents and hence the section will be listed as an ordinary slide tocsection hidden This does create a section in the table of contents but this is only visible when you view a slide that is part of this section This could be used to append a sec tion to the presentation which you can discuss if there is some extra time This option controls whether the section command creates a slide The preset value is true slide true A slide is created slide false No slide will be created If also tocsectionis false the section command doesn t do anything If it does create a table of contents section tocsection true or hidden its link will point to the first slide in the section as the section itself doesn t have a slide This option can be used to make the section slide with another template By de fault a normal slide environment is used to create the section slide but if a style of fers other templates that could be used for this purpose for instance the videslide environment then you can use this option to select that template See section 7 for an overview of the available templates with every style Finally all options available to normal slides ar
36. eep your questions related to powerdot Always supply a minimal example demonstrating your problem Dont send big files over the list We hope you will enjoy this service Source code documentation In case you want regenerate the package files from the source or want to have a look at the source code description locate powerdot dtx search in the file for OnlyDescriptionand remove that and do latex powerdot dtx latex powerdot dtx bi btex powerdot makeindex s gglo ist o powerdot gls powerdot glo makeindex s gind ist o powerdot ind powerdot idx latex powerdot dtx latex powerdot dtx References 1 10 11 Hendri Adriaens HA prosper package CTAN macros latex contrib HA prosper Hendri Adriaens xkeyval package CTAN macros latex contrib xkeyval Donald Arseneau random tex CTAN macros generic misc Javier Bezos enumitem package CTAN macros latex contrib enumitem David Carlisle graphics bundle CTAN macros latex required graphics LyX crew LyX website http www lyx org CTAN crew The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network http www ctan org Patrick W Daly natbib package CTAN macros latex contrib natbib Fr d ric Goualard and Peter Moller Neergaard prosper class CTAN macros latex contrib prosper Uwe Kern xcolor package CTAN macros latex contrib xcolor James Kilfiger and Wolfgang May extsizes bundle CTAN macros latex contrib extsizes 40 12 13
37. em and onslide notation optional argument for item in BIEX A BIEX manual 12 can tell you more about this argument Here is an example begin slide Active itemize begin itemize type 1 item lt 1 gt A item lt 2 gt B 12 onslide onslide onslide item lt 3 gt C end itemize end slide Here we have said that A should only be active on overlay 1 B should only be active on overlay 2 and C should only be active on overlay 3 Again when the item is not active it appears in the inactive color because of type 1 If type 0 is specified and if each item is given an overlay option then each item will appear only when it is active When the item is not active then it will not show on the slide at all More examples demonstrating the syntax for overlays will be discussed in the next section 4 4 The onslide command Overlays can also be achieved using the onslide command onslide overlays MC text Y This command takes an overlays specification as first argument and the text to ap ply it to as second argument The overlays on which the text will appear are specified as a comma separated list with syntax as in table 1 We start off with a simple example begin slide Simple onslide onslide 1 2 power onslide 2 dot end slide We have instructed power to appear on overlays one and two and dot to appear only on overlay two As you might guess this example has the same output
38. etups set ifsetup to empty as is done in the example All subsequent declarations will then again be applied under any setup 28 pdifsetup pdGnoportrait option title option text option toc option stoc option ntoc option lf The following command is a stand alone implementation of the mechanism de scribed above It allows you to control the setup outside the options argument of the pddef inetemplate command pdifsetup desired X true KC false This macro executes true when the setup that the user chose matches with the desired setup false in all other cases For instance if the user has chosen landscape then pdifsetup landscape yes no will typeset yes If the user would have chosen portrait instead then no would have been typeset This macro can be used to check setup requests from the user and for instance generate an error if a certain setup is not supported by your style powerdot provides one predefined error message which can be used in one of the first lines of your style pd noportrait This macro generates an error when the user requests portrait orientation Notice that the handout mode only works in portrait orientation This macro takes that into ac count and doesn t generate an error in the case that the user requested a handout 9 5 Main components The options control several key components of a slide Every component has sev eral properties A key that
39. ffect of this length depends on the orientation of the table of contents tocsecindent The horizontal space left to a section entry Preset Opt tocslideindent The horizontal space left to a slide entry The horizontal skip will not be inserted left to slide entries that appear before the first section Preset Opt tocsecm This is inserted just before typesetting a section This can be used to mark a section for instance with a line as in the default style Preset empty toctcolor This is the text color used for non highlighted elements in the table of contents Preset black This is the text color used for highlighted elements in the table of contents Pre set white This is the color used for the frame behind highlighted elements Preset black 9 7 Miscellaneous options There are some options that fall outside of the scope of the previous sections These will be discussed here iacolor The iacolor option can be used to specify the color that is used for inac tive things produced for instance by onslide pause see section 4 and Ntableofcontents see section 5 2 As xcolor is used by powerdot one can use special notation here like The preset value for this key is lightgray The following options control the digital clock see section 2 1 The clock is a form text field with dynamic content driven by a javascript via hyperref text fields Some options for the clock work similarly as f
40. following command pddef inelyxtemplate cs template This will define the control sequence cs such that it will create a slide with template template which has been defined using Npddefinetemplate This new control se quence can be used in the layout file as follows SunnySlide environment definition Style SunnySlide CopyStyle Slide LatexName lyxend lyxsunnyslide Font Color Yellow EndFont Preamble pddefinelyxtemplate lyxsunnyslide sunnyslide EndPreamble End 13The LPPL dictates to rename a file if you modify it as to avoid confusion 37 Ql Al Q2 Q3 A3 Q4 A4 Q5 A5 Command Method in LyX and Within Author environment pause item An ERT box is only required for the optional argument not mandatory for overlays specifications onslide And the versions onslide and Nonslide twocolumn tableofcontents Only when using the optional argument Table 5 powerdot commands needing an ERT box in LyX Env Command Method in IyX quote Use Quote environment quotation Use Quotation environment verse Use Verse environment caption Use Caption environment within standard float envi ronments Table 6 Additional environments for LyX Note that you must begin the LatexName field with lyxend The definition of the LyX template has been inserted in between Preamble and EndPreamble which assures that the new LyX environment will work in every presentation After modifying t
41. he layout file don t forget to restart LyX See for more information about creating LyX en vironments the documentation of LyX in the Help menu 11 Questions 11 1 Frequently Asked Questions This section is devoted to Frequently Asked Questions Please read it carefully your problem might be solved by this section Does powerdot have example files Where can I find them powerdot comes with several examples that should be in the doc tree of your BTEX in stallation More precisely texmf doc latex powerdot If you can t find them there download them from CTAN macros latex contrib powerdot 7 I m getting errors or unexpected output when compiling the simplest example Did you read section 8 I made a typo in the slide code ran the file got an error corrected the typo and reran but now get an error that doesn t go away Remove the bm and toc files and try again pause does not work in the align environment align does several tricky things which make it impossible to use pause Use onslide instead See section 4 4 My pstricks nodes appear on all overlays Also color doesn t seem to work with Nonslide Some PostScript tricks like nodes and color do not work with onslide Use onslide instead See an example below There are several environments doing similar things as align Another example is the split environ ment but more often from the amsmath package can cause similar trouble for pause 38
42. ice that included contributions will fall under the overall powerdot license and copyright notice but that your name will be included in the documentation when you make a contribution This is done to guarantee that we can adapt files if maintenance is needed If your question has not been answered at this point advance to the next section to read where to find more answers 11 2 Mailinglist powerdot has a mailinglist from freelists organd has its website here http www freelists org list powerdot There is a link to List Archive Please search this archive before posting a question Your problem might already have been solved in the past 15Make sure that you confirm that the bug is really caused by powerdot and not by another package that you use 39 the If that is not the case use the box on the page to type your e mail address choose action Subscribe and click Go Then follow the instructions that arrive to you by e mail At a certain moment you can login for the first time using an authoriza tion code sent to you by e mail After logging in you can create a password for future sessions using the Main Menu button The other buttons provide you some info and options for your account We See Ier 12 When you are all set you can write to the list by sending an e mail to powerdot at freelists dot org When writing to the list please keep in mind the following very important issues are volunteers K
43. ilable in hand out mode In that mode powerdot will switch to portrait orientation and will warn you about this in the log file lThe value that will be used when you don t use the option orient portrait This produces slides in portrait format Notice that not all styles support por trait orientation Please refer to section 7 for information about which styles do support the portrait orientation option This controls the production of slides and notes The preset value is slides display display slides This will only typeset the slides in your presentation display slidesnotes This will typeset both the slides and the notes in your presentation See also section 6 1 for more information about notes display notes This will typeset the notes only Here are some more options to control the output option size oo This is the size of the normal text font in points Possible values are 8pt 9pt 10pt 11pt 12pt 14pt 17pt and 20pt and the preset value is 11pt option style style This controls the style to be loaded for the presentation By default the default style will be loaded For more styles see section 7 option fleqn bo This option makes equations flushed left It does the same as the equally named option for the article class option leqno leqno Put equation numbers at the left Also the same as in the article class option nopsheader nopsheader By default po
44. instance box will not work The preset effect is Replace which just replaces one slide with another when browsing the slides Note that some PDF viewers like Acrobat Reader 5 and higher only produce the transition effect in full screen mode If you want to use a custom transition effect that is not listed in the list above for instance a wipe effect with a custom wipe direction then that is possible However power dot will put a warning in your log file that the effect that you have chosen might not work in the PDF viewer Here is an example that does work trans Wipe Di 0 In Acrobat Reader this wipes from left to right instead of the default top to bottom For more information see a PDF Reference Manual option method This option can be used when a slide contains special material that does not get treated in the usual way by BIFX Verbatim material is an example of this Possible values are normal the preset value direct and file We will come back to this option in detail in section 6 4 options logohook logopos logocmd logohook N If logopos is specified a logo defined by the value of the logocmd option logopos ise a logocmd will be put on slides The position can be specified relative to the width and height of the slide 0 0 is the lower left corner of the paper and slidewidth slideheight is the upper right corner For positioning the logo the rput command of pstricks 15 16
45. is used This command also allows to specify the point of the logo that should be positioned there This point can be entered via the logohook option and can take the values t1 t tr r Br br b b1 B1 1 B and c For more information about rput consult the pstricks documentation Here is an example that integrates the flower of the default style into the husky style documentclass style husky powerdot pdsetup logohook t logopos 088 slidewidth 99 slideheight logocmd includegraphics height 08 slideheight powerdot default ps begin document end document The preset value for logohook is t1 A special feature of powerdot which can be used to make presentations come alive is the use of random dots These dots will be placed anywhere on your slides and use the colors defined by the palette that you use Overlays will carry the same dots This feature uses random tex 3 Several options are available to control the appearance of the random dots option randomdots 2 By default random dots are turned off If this option is set to true random dots will be generated false will turn off the feature When no value is submitted to the option true will be used options dmindots dmaxdots options dminsize dmaxsize options dminwidth dmaxwidth dminheight dmaxheight option dbright option dprop dmindots dmaxdots The number of dots per slide is also random These options
46. ject set up to make a new class to replace the prosper plus HA prosper combination You re currently reading the result of that project The remainder of this section will be devoted to giving a feel of what the powerdot presentation source looks like and giving an overview of this documentation The document structure of a presentation is always the same You can find it in the example below documentclass lt class options gt powerdot pdsetup lt presentation options gt begin document begin slide a slide Contents of the slide end slide section first section begin slide lt slide options gt another slide Contents of the slide end slide begin note personal note The note end note end document There are several elements that define the document structure First of all the class accepts some class options that control the output of the class for instance paper type and style These class options will be discussed in section 2 1 Then there are presentation specific options which control some of the elements of the presentation globally for instance the footers These will be discussed in section 2 2 Once the setup has been decided on you can use the slide environment to produce slides see section 3 and the note environment to produce notes that go with the slides see section 6 1 You can use overlays to display material in steps This is described in section 4 The section command provides
47. k slide when clicked When you click anywhere in the black slide you will go back to the originating slide This option can be used to temporarily pause a presentation for instance to do a proof on the black board This displays a small digital clock on slides which you can use to check the time left for your presentation Here is an example of a N ocument class command documentclass size 12pt paper screen mode present display slidesnotes style tycja nopagebreaks blackslide fleqn J powerdot This example sets up a presentation in tycja style with a black slide normal size 12 points and flushed left equations documentclass size 12pt paper letterpaper mode handout display slidesnotes style tycja nopagebreaks blackslide fleqn powerdot Changing the paper and mode options now produces a handout with possibly more than two slides per page due to the nopagebreaks option 2 2 Setupoptions There are several extra options that can help customizing your presentation These options are not available via the documentclass command This has a technical reason We distinguish two types of options Options that can only be set globally acting for the entire presentation using the pdsetup command and options that can be accessed both globally via pdsetup and locally via slide environments see section 3 2 2 1 Global options This section describes options that can only be used g
48. l prove formula 1 on the blackboard December 4 2005 Here is wa list with seven items sailor This style is contributed by Mael Hill reau and supplies five different palettes Sea the default River Wine Chocolate and Cocktail Below is a sample of the palette Sea Here is the binomium formula Example of the sailor style aki Y Que We wil prove formula 1 on the blackboard m Hee na Hendri Adriaens Christopher Elison T December 4 2005 upen This style has a nice dark blue background and text in yellow It is contributed by Piskala Upendran bframe The bframe style has blue frames on the slide in which text is positioned The 23 style is contributed by Piskala Upendran Example slide Here is the binomium formula Example of the bframe style We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison m Here is aa horatio The horatio style has been contributed by Michael Lundholm and is a more con servative blue style Here is the binomium formula mn y fn anr Example of the horatio style a b A v a Bes ditior Christopher Ellison We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard v Here December 4 2005 xis va x list v with X seven v items paintings This is a simple style without a table of contents on slides It has been con tributed by Thomas Koepsell and provides 10 different palettes The colors used i
49. lide 1 6 appears 1 overlay after D visible until overlay 6 pause item E pause item F pause item G onslide 1 3 appears 1 overlay after G for 3 overlays pause item H pause item I pause item J pause item K End itemize end slide As you can see we still use onslide The only change is with the syntax of the list of overlays Now we can specify a symbol in the list In its simplest usage onslide 1 will make text display one overlay after the overlay it would normally appear on You can still use the syntax in table 1 These are demonstrated in the above example Notice onslide 1 6 means that the text will appear one overlay after the overlay it would normally appear on and that the text should remain shown until overlay seven To make text appear for a range of relative overlays see the final demon stration in the above example 5 Presentation structure 5 1 Making sections This section describes the section command which provides a way to structure a presentation section options section title This command will produce a slide with section title on it and will also use this text to create sections in the table of contents and in the bookmarks list There are several options to control its output 14 option tocsection option slide option template tableofcontents option type This option controls the creation of a section in the table of contents Th
50. lobally in the preamble of your presentation via the pdsetup command This specifies the palette to be used A palette is a set of colors defined by a style To find out which palettes are defined by each style see section 7 3The interested reader is referred to the section about the xkvltxp package in the xkeyval package docu mentation 2 options lf This determines the content of the left footer and right footers These are preset ue to empty option theslide theslide This option controls how the slide number appears on the slide This is preset to the value arabic slide pageref lastslide which could appear like 5 22 Notice that the arabic slide typesets the number of the current slide and that pageref lastslide typesets the number of the last slide option thenote This is similar to the theslide option but typesets the slide numbers of notes The preset value is note arabic note of slide arabic slide and arabic note here typesets the number of the current note that goes with the current slide This could appear like note 2 of slide 7 option counters s P The counters option lists counters that you might want to protect on over lays As material on overlays see section 4 is processed multiple times also BTEX counters like the equation counter might be increased too often To avoid that your equations get different numbers on every overlay use this op tion The equation table figure foot
51. ly to the various setups by using the ifsetup key Any key appearing be fore the first if setup declaration in options will apply to every possible setup Once the ifsetup key is used then all subsequent key declarations will apply only to the setups declared in the ifsetup key The ifsetup key can be used multiple times By possible setups we mean the allowed values of the mode paper orient and display keys that are described in section 2 1 If a value or values for any of these four keys is not specified in a ifsetup declaration then all subsequent key declara tions will apply to any layout of that type Consider the following as an example textpos 2 slidewidth 3 slideheight ifsetup portrait screen textpos 3 slidewidth 2 slideheight ifsetup landscape ifsetup o O4 O00 QNM e Assuming there was no ifsetup declaration before the first textpos declaration this first textpos will apply to every possible setup However for the screen format in portrait orientation the next textpos declaration will be used In fact all declarations that appear until we switch to the next ifsetup which specifies all paper sorts and only landscape orientation will be used in the portrait screen layout All keys after the next ifsetup declaration will be used in landscape orientation with any paper mode and display 1f after declaring some specializations you want to switch back to settings that apply to all possible s
52. n the palettes are drawn from famous paintings If you are interested open the style file to read which paintings have been used The available palettes are Syndics the default Skater GoldenGate Lamentation HolyWood Europa Moitessier MayThird PearlEarring and Charon all case sensitive Below is a sample of the Syndics palette Example slide Here is the binomium formula a5 23 anh 1 i Example of the paintings style We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Here Hendri A C her Ellison klope The klope style implements a horizontal table of contents that only lists the sec tions The style is available in the following palettes Spring PastelFlower BlueWater and BlackWhite The Spring palette is the default and you can see asample of that below 9The style defines a color pdcolor7 which is not used in the style but comes from the same painting and complements the other colors It can be used for example to highlight text against the main background color 24 Example slide Here is the binomium formula TR RS 240 EC D amp We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard m Here is jefka The jefka style comes with four palettes brown the default seagreen blue and white Below you see a sample of the brown palette Example slide Here is the binomium formula e ut k o k We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Example of the jefka style Hendri Adriaens Ch
53. nd indent you can change this behavior and position the first line of text of the left column any where you want The twocolumn macro computes the height of the construction to position text below the construction correctly The computation is done by taking the maximum height of lfrheight rfrheight lineheight if specified and the left and right col umn content Hence when frames nor a line is requested bottomsep is the vertical space between the lowest line of text in the columns and the text below the columns additional to baselineskip Here is an example begin slide Two columns Here are two columns twocolumn lfrprop linestyle dotted linewidth 3pt lfrheight 4cm rfrheight 5cm lineheight 3cm topsep 0 3cm left right Those were two columns end slide 19 tt a a my ol ti ET iLeft column text l Meaning of the labels 1 lcolwidth 5 frsep 2 rcolwidth 6 topsep 3 colsep 7 indent 4 lfrheight rfrheight 8 bottomsep lineheight 9 Reference point Figure 1 Two column dimensions Note that the use of the xkeyval commands savevalue and usevalue could be handy here for instance for copying the properties of the left frame to the right frame This avoids typing them twice and avoids making errors resulting in different frames See an example below twocolumn savevalue lfrheight 3cm savevalue lfrprop linestyle dotted framearc 2 linewidth 3pt rfrheight usevalue lfrheight rfr
54. ndent options llle 1 Added graphical examples of styles to documentation llle 1 Added LyX layout description and example 0 eee eee eee eee eee 1 Changed size 10 to size 10pt seen 1 Extend d BAQ euer Ron edat mae rt ener ore Bee Ca Tace AERE wade utusebagece es 1 Fixed some small bugs ipiis MIR EDU PER WERE ERE See Rug 1 Improved tycja ciment and fyma styles 0 ce cece ete teens 1 Improved section title handling 0 eee tee eee 1 v1 2 2005 10 09 General Added upen and bframe styles 00 cece e eee eee e 1 Simplified coding of most styles lees 1 Solved some small bugs sos sproei t EEE ee eee n 1 Speeded up compilations sser 0 orrs anni ia a VEETEE nen 1 v1 3 2005 12 06 General Added horatio paintings klope jefka and pazik styles lusus 1 Added clockf at re ess eea E A e Ea p RS Ee a e 1 Added examples and example file 0 0 0 0 cee eee eee eee nee 1 Added logo feat re oc sees beo RERECIR P pice esha RH ERU ES ET EE 1 Added optional argument to maketitle 0 cece eee eee nee 1 Added palettes feature 2 0 0 eee hh 1 Added palettes to default fyma and sailor styles 000 c ccc eee eee 1 Added possibility to create horizontal table of contents llle 1 41 Added random dots feature Added two slide processing methods to do verbatim on slides easily Cleaned up options
55. note and mpfootnote counters are already protected for you If you use extra counters for instance for theorems list them in this option Example counters theorem lemma option list This option takes a list of options that will be passed on to the enumitem package that controls the layout of lists created by the enumerate and itemize environ ments Example list labelsep 1em leftmargin itemsep 0pt topsep 5pt parsep Opt See for more information on controlling the layout of lists the enumitem package 4 options enumerate itemize enumerate As the list option but only control enumerate and itemize environments re Tee spectively 2 2 2 Global and local options This section describes options that can be used both globally via pdsetup and locally via slide environments see section 3 option trans trans This option sets the default transition effect to be used in the presentation These transition effects only work after compiling the presentation to PDF format See also section 8 The following transition effects are supported Split Blinds Box Wipe Dissolve Glitter and Replace When you are using a viewer that 4we use the starred version of pageref which is defined by hyperref and does not create a link to the page that it is referring to understands PDF 1 5 you can also use Fly Push Cover Uncover or Fade It is important to notice that most viewers are case sensitive so for
56. o takes any even number of mandatory arguments with a minimum of two For every name a set of commands can be given which define the palette with name name These commands can define colors with names pdcolor1 pdcolor2 etcetera These colors can be used when designing the template see section 9 3 pdcolor1 will always be used as text color The user can access these palettes via the palette key for the pdsetup command see section 2 2 If the user does not specify a palette the first palette defined when compiling the presentation will be used Here is an example for defining 2 palettes pddefinepalettes reds definecolor pdcolori rgb 1 0 0 definecolor pdcolor2 rgb 1 1 0 definecolor pdcolor3 rgb 1 2 0 greens definecolor pdcolori rgb 0 1 0 definecolor pdcolor2 rgb 1 1 0 definecolor pdcolor3 rgb 2 1 0 F In this example the reds palette is the default one For more information about definecolor see the documentation of the xcolor package 10 Notice that it is not necessary to use the names pdcolor2 pdcolor3 etcetera as color names But if these colors are defined powerdot will use them for instance in 27 pddefinetemplate option ifsetup the random dots feature see section 2 2 2 The flexibility adds extra possibilities in setting up templates and palettes See for an example of its use the klope style 9 3 Defining templates We start off with a definition of what
57. ocessing slides from which two have mainly been developed to make the inclusion of verbatim content on slides easier These methods can be accessed by the method key which is available in slide environments and the pdsetup command see section 2 2 2 method normal This is the preset method for processing slides It is fast and allows for overlays but it does not allow for verbatim 6 And other content that needs catcode changes when processing Except when it has been saved in a box outside the slide 17 twocolumn option lineheight option lineprop method direct This method is also fast but does not allow for overlays Overlays will silently be disabled However it does allow for verbatim content on slides method file This method uses a temporary file to export the slide body to and read it back in This method does allow for verbatim content and overlays but could be slow when many slides use this method because the filesystem is used Below is an example demonstrating the use of all three different methods of slide processing documentclass powerdot usepackage listings lstnewenvironment code lstset frame single escapeinside backgroundcolor color yellow 20 basicstyle footnotesize ttfamily 3 begin document begin slide Slide 1 Normal pause content end slide begin slide method direct Slide 2 Steps 1 and 2 begin code compute a pause
58. or for instance the title component but there are also special options 32 options clockhook clockpos options clockwidth clockheight option clockcharsize option clockalign option clockcolor clockhook clockpos These work in the same way as the hook and pos properties discussed in sec tion 9 5 The preset value of clockhook is tr clockwidth clockheight These control the width and height of the text field containing the clock Preset values come from hyperref and are 3cm and baselineskip respectively clockcharsize The size of characters of the clock Preset 14pt clockalign The alignment of the clock in the text field 0 is left aligned 1 is centered and 2 is right aligned Preset is 2 This determines the text color of the clock The value should be a named color The preset value is black 9 8 Template presets Below we have copied the preset setting for the keys described above These will be used if you didnt supply other input for these keys in a particular template If the preset value meets your needs you don have to specify it again in your style titlehook Bl titlepos titlewidth slidewidth titlefont raggedright texthook tl1 textpos textwidth slidewidth textfont raggedright textheight slideheight tochook t1 tocpos tocwidth 2 slidewidth tocfont tiny raggedright stochook t1 stocpos stocwidth 2 slidewidth stocfont tiny raggedright
59. prop usevalue lfrprop J left right See the xkeyval documentation 2 for more information about savevalue and usevalue 7 Available styles powerdot comes with a number of styles which are listed in the overview below The characteristics of each style are described shortly and a sample of a title slide and a normal slide is provided for each style Styles support the wideslide environment have a table of contents on the left part of the paper in landscape orientation and on 20 the bottom part in portrait orientation and support portrait orientation unless states otherwise default This style provides six different palettes A flower in the top left corner decorates the slides for all palettes The default palette is blue which has as main colors light blue and white You can see an example of that palette below Other avail able palettes are red green yellow brown and purple Here is the binomium formula ab 23 a mak We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard Example of the default style Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison m Here December 4 2005 is aa simple This is a simple style in black and white This style could be useful if you want to print your slides Example slide Example of the simple style Here is the binomium formula nm e n n kpk Hendri Adriaens Christopher Ellison G ie t December 4 2005 We will prove formula 1 on the blackboard O Here is gt
60. raphics command is defined by the graphicx package 5 The stretch command is used to vertically center the picture Both commands are de scribed in your favorite BIFX manual for instance 12 Note that you can use the lengths slideheight and slidewidth to scale pictures to fit nicely on the slide 6 3 Bibliography slide powerdot redefines the standard article thebibliography environment to suppress the creation of a section heading and running headers All other properties are main tained You can do either of the next two depending whether you are using BiBTEX or not begin slide Slide begin slide Slide cite someone cite someone end slide end slide begin slide References begin slide References begin thebibliography 1 bibliographystyle plain bibitem someone Article of someone bibliography YourBib end thebibliography end slide end slide In case you have a big reference list that you want to spread over multiple slides have a look at the packages natbib and bibentry 8 Using both packages allows you to do begin slide References 1 bibliographystyle plain nobibliography YourBib bibentry someone1 bibentry someone2 end slide begin slide References 2 bibentry someone3 end slide Have a look at your favorite BI X manual for more information about citations and bibliographies 6 4 Verbatim on slides powerdot has three different methods of pr
61. re supported through the LyX interface directly without using an ERT box TEX mode All class options see section 2 1 are supported via the Layout gt Document dialog Layout pane Options for the pdsetup command see section 2 should be speci fied in the Preamble pane of the Layout gt Document dialog Table 3 lists the powerdot commands that are supported in LyX Table 4 lists the powerdot environments that besides the earlier discussed slide wideslide note and emptyslide environments are supported in LyX Table 5 lists commands that can only be done by using an ERT box via Insert gt TeX Note that you may use the clipboard in order to repeat often used commands like pause Finally table 6 lists additional commands and environments that are supported by the layout 12x translates special characters into their corresponding IATEX command For instance the backslash character is translated into textbackslash Resulting the font is not the same as in true verbatim and you might want to change that via the Layout gt Character dialog 36 pddefinelyxtemplate Command Method in LyX title Use Title environment author Use Author environment date Use Date environment maketitle Managed directly by Lyx section Use the Section environment Options to this com mand see section 5 1 can be specified using Insert gt Short title in front of the section title tableofcontents Use Insert gt Lists amp TO
62. resections This displays all sections starting from the current section We finish this section with a small example that will demonstrate how you can make a presentation that contains an overall overview of sections in the presentation giving a general idea of the content and per section a detailed overview of the slides in that section begin slide toc bm Overview tableofcontents content sections end slide section First section begin slide toc bm Overview of the first section tableofcontents content currentsection type i Vend slide begin slide Some slide end slide section Second section 6 Miscellaneous 6 1 Notes note The note environment can be used to make personal notes that accompany a slide You can control displaying notes using the display option see section 2 1 Here is an example begin slide Chewing gum end slide begin note Reminder for chewing gum Don t forget to mention that chewing gum is sticky end note 6 2 Empty slides emptyslide The emptyslide environment creates a totally empty slide The text box on the slide can be used for special things like displaying photos This allows for creating a dia show Example 16 thebibliography option verbatim begin emptyslide centering vspace stretch 1 includegraphics height 0 8 slideheight me_chewing_gum eps vspace stretch 1 end emptyslide The includeg
63. ristopher Ellison m Here December 4 2005 Qao pazik This style is available in two palettes red and brown Below is a sample of the default red palette 8 Compiling your presentation 8 1 Dependencies In table 2 is a list of packages that powerdot uses to perform specific tasks Depen dencies of packages in this table are not listed In the table required means that you should have a version at least as new as listed and tested means that powerdot was tested with this version but that it could equally well work with an older or newer ver sion than the one listed in the table So when trying to solve an error first concentrate on solving version issues for the required packages To find out which version of a package you are currently using put listfiles on the first line of your document run it with BIFX open the 1og file and read the file list see a BIEX manual for more information If you need to update a package you can get it from CTAN 7 8 2 Creating and viewing output To compile your presentation run it with BIpX The DVI that is produced this way can be viewed with MiKTgX s DVI viewer YAP Unfortunately xdvi and kdvi kile do Unless you are using pstricks add which distorts the coordinate system in DVI 25 Package file Version Date Required tested xkeyval 2 2 5c 2005 07 10 required pstricks sty 15 16 0 21 2004 05 12 required xcolor 10 1 11 2004 05 09 required enumitem 4 1 0 20
64. rmation about psdot the pstricks documenta tion 15 16 powerdot defines two extra dot styles that can be used for the ran dom dots These styles are ocircle open circle and osquare open square Here are two examples for the use of random dots pdsetup randomdots dminwidth 2 slidewidth This turns on random dots and doesn t use the left 20 of the slide for placing random dots pdsetup randomdots dprop dotstyle ocircle linewidth 5pt dminsize 500pt dmaxsize 600pt dmindots 2 dmaxdots 5 This example puts at most 5 big circles on slides These circles do not fit on the slides and you will only see parts of them in the shape of curves 2 2 8 pdsetup example Here is an example of a pdsetup command that one could use to set up the presen tation title author and date maketitle slide pdsetup lf My first presentation rf For some conference trans Wipe theslide arabic slide randomdots dmaxdots 80 This sets the left and right footers and will initialize the transition effect to Wipe Fur ther slide numbers will not include the number of the last slide but only the number of the current slide Finally slides will be covered with at most 80 random dots Asmall note is necessary with respect to the appearance of footers The slide num ber controlled by the theslide option will be added to a footer Most styles add it too the right footer If both the footer and the slide
65. rning slide 1 Slide Second slide title Standard The second slide EndSlide This example demonstrates that it is often sufficient to insert the EndS1ide style after the last slide or note only Only when you want certain material not to be part of a slide you need to finish the preceding slide manually using the EndSlide style Example Slide First slide title Standard The first slide EndSlide ERT box with some material Slide Second slide title Options can be passed to slide environments by using Insert gt Short title in front of the slide title The following example uses the direct method see section 6 4 in the short title argument delimited by square brackets to allow for a 1stlisting environment defined by the listings package within the slide content Slide method direct Example of LaTeX source code Standard Here s the HelloWorld command ERT box Mstset language LaTeX TeX Moeginflstlisting newcommand HelloWorld Hello World Vend lstlisting EndSlide Note that you are not obliged to use a verbatim environment to type the HelloWord text into the LyX window because IX directly supports standard verbatim Conse quently the use of the slide processing methods direct and file is not necessary when you need standard verbatim but it is necessary when doing more advanced things like in the example above 10 2 Support of syntax This section lists options commands and environments that a
66. ronments Slide WideSlide EmptySlide and Note These environments correspond to the powerdot environments slide emptyslide wideslide and note We start with a simple example The following BIEX code begin slide Slide title Slide content end slide can be obtained using the following LyX environments The right column represents the text typed into the LyX window and the left column represents the environment applied to this text Slide Slide title Standard Slide content EndSlide Some remarks concerning this example You can use the environment menu under the menu bar top left corner to change the environment applied to text The slide title should be typed on the line of the Slide environment EndS1lide finishes the slide and its line is left blank In the LyX window the Slide environment that is the slide title is displayed in magenta the WideSlide style in green the EmptySlide style in cyan and the Note style in red and hence these are easily identifiable Here is another example begin slide First slide title The first slide end slide begin note First note title The first note concerning slide 1 end note begin slide Second slide title The second slide end slide 1 Don t confuse these with ATpX environments 35 This can be done in LyX in the following way Slide First slide title Standard The first slide Note First note title Standard The first note conce
67. splays power on overlay 1 and dot on overlay 2 but no space for power is reserved on overlay 2 Hence dot will start on the cursor position that power started on overlay 1 and it is not aligned below the other two dots 13 section We finish with an example of the syntax that is possible with item and onslide Remember that these commands take a comma separated list for the overlays speci fication and that each element can used the syntax as explained in table 1 The various variations are demonstrated in the example below begin slide Lists onslide 10 on overlay 10 only par onslide 5 on every overlay before and including overlay 5 par onslide 5 on every overlay after and including overlay 5 par onslide 2 5 on overlays 2 through 5 inclusive par onslide 3 5 7 9 on every overlay except overlays 4 and 8 end slide 4 5 Relative overlays Sometimes it is a pain to keep track of when an item should appear or become active You might for example just care that some text appears on the overlay after some other item This functionality is provided through the use of relative overlays which should not be used outside list environments that use item Let s consider a simple illuminating example begin slide Relative overlays begin itemize item A pause item B onslide 1 visible 1 overlay after B pause item C onslide 2 appears 2 overlays after C visible until the end pause item D ons
68. t dtx This generates powerdot styletest tex which will help you with the testing job Feel free to contact us when you would like to contribute your style to powerdot See also section 11 10 Using LyX for presentations LyX 6 is a WYSIWYM What You See Is What You Mean document processor based on BIFX It supports standard BIFX classes but needs special files called layout files in order to support non standard classes such as powerdot To start using LyX for powerdot presentations copy the layout file powerdot layout to the LyX layout directory You can find this file in the doc tree of your BI gX installa tion texmf doc latex powerdot If you can t find it there download it from CTAN macros latex contrib powerdot Once that is done reconfigure LyX Edit gt Reconfigure and restart LyX afterwards Now you can use the powerdot document class as any other supported class Go to Layout gt Document and select powerdot presentationas document class For more information see the LyX documentation which is accessible from the Help menu 10 1 Howto use the layout The powerdot LyX layout provides some environments which can be used in LyX Some of these environments for instance Title or Itemize are natural to use since they exist also in the standard document classes such as article For more information on these standard environments see the LyX documentation This section will explain how to use the powerdot specific envi
69. the main text This does not imply that users are restricted to this length or that powerdot does automatic slide breaking This height is only used for vertical alignments of material for instance by footnotes The preset value is slideheight This will be inserted just before the text that is about to be typeset This can be used to declare deviations from the main text font and color It can be a font declaration like large bfseries but can also contain other things like color red or raggedright This property is only available for the footers 1f and rf and can be used to 30 option orient pd tocslide pd tocsection pd tocdisplay pd tochighlight option tocfrsep change the template of the footers This means that you can for instance add content to the footer besides the content specified by the user The default dec laration by powerdot is the following rftemp pd Grf ifx pd Orf empty else ifx theslide empty else fi fi theslide Here pd rf will contain the content of the right footer defined by the user via the pdsetup command Similarly pd 1f contains the content of the left footer The above declaration checks whether the footer and theslide are both non empty and if so it inserts to separate both orient This property is only available for the toc stoc and ntoc components This property can be h or v and determines the orientation of the table of contents The preset is v See
70. werdot will write a postscript command to the ps file to make sure that post processors like ps2pdf know which paper to use without the need to specify it on the command line See also section 8 If you experience problems with post processing or printing or you want to specify the paper size in the post processing steps yourself use this option option hlentries This highlights table of contents entries when the entry matches with the current slide and its preset value is true See also section 5 If you don t want highlighting of table of contents entries for instance in print mode use hlentries false option hlsections This highlights table of contents sections when the section matches with the cur rent section in the presentation and is preset to false See also section 5 Spec ifying this option turns highlighting of sections on This could be useful when you are using a style that implements a split table of contents Note that sizes other than 10pt 11pt and 12pt are non standard and it is assumed that you have the extsizes bundle 11 installed which provides these sizes option blackslide options clock pdsetup option palette blackslide This option inserts a black slide in the presentation on page 1 and will auto matically advance to page 2 when opening the presentation in a PDF viewer like Acrobat Reader The option also inserts a link behind every slide or section title that brings you to the blac
71. y the style that you use and the item s font color will become the active one on the overlay that it would normally appear on The default behavior is given by type 0 Lists can also be nested to create complicated structures When a list is nested it inherits the setting of the type option from the parent list but that can be overruled by specifying the type option in the optional argument of the nested list We present here one example but many more can be created by nesting lists of different types in different ways begin slide Nested lists begin itemize item A pause begin itemize type 1 item B pause end itemize item C end itemize end slide This displays A and B on the first overlay but B is inactive On overlay 2 B will become active and on overlay 3 C will become visible 4 3 The item command The item command has an extra optional argument in powerdot which allows for creating overlays in a more flexible way then pause provides item label lt overlays gt This optional argument should contain an overlay specification stating on which over lays you want the item to appear This specification is a comma separated list where each item can used the notation as in table 1 The abel argument is the standard Syntax Meaning x Only overlay x X All overlays up to and including x x All overlays from x including x x y All overlays from x to y including x and y Table 1 N t

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