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1. Figure 3 The bluestripe style 5 4 The only ornament to this style is the dark shaded background it has two style colors stylecolor blue and stylecolor green if you feel really adventurous try stylecolor bluered It uses ConTRXt s interactionbar mechanism to show the progress of the presentation It provides much space for text Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX sig nificantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hun dreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a sin on the Jn is complete anc ri the rea Figure 4 The darkshade style with stylecolor blue 5 5 doubleframe This style was inspired by Hans s green style s pre 02 It has a thick blue frame around the entire slide area and a thinner frame around the text area The style has two options for the bottom area stylebottom stripe will display a shaded blue area which will grow with each slide stylebottom square displays a row of blue squares at the bottom which also measure the presentation s progress Thus came to the conclusion that the designer2. nificantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hun dreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a sin gle person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 18 The superellipse style 21 5 18 titleframe The interesting feature of this style is the scratch counter at the bottom it is derived from section 7 2 of the Metafun manual Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments l Figure 19 The titleframe style 5 19 Customization The style parameter allows easy customizatio
3. gle person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 13 The lightblue style 16 5 13 narrowstripe A variation on the bluestripe style with shaded narrow stripes This style comes with two color options which you set with the stylecolor key stylecolor red stylecolor green or stylecolor blue 2 Text Cs Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities liter ally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 14 The narrowblue style with stylecolor blue 17 5 14 quadblue This style is inspired by the colors and corporate look of my university It is very sober and offers much space for text and images There is a rough progress meter built into the blue quadrangles Text Thus came to the conclusion that the des
4. of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 5 The doubleframe style with the stylebottom stripe option Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments UMEERE EEEE EENE Figure 6 The doublefr
5. the IATRX beamer package On the other hand it is much easier to use you should be able to write your first presentation after spending five minutes with this manual 2 Installation Installation is easy just put the files t lt something gt into a directory where T X can see them For ConTRXt third party modules the canonical place would be in one of your TEXMF trees under tex context third If you want to keep things tidy place them in a subdirectory taspresent If you just unzip the archive taspresent zip in a TEXMF directory things will be moved to the right place automatically On many TRX systems you will have to run texhash after installing new files To doublecheck whether the system finds your files run kpsewhich t taspresent tex from the command line if all goes well this should return the position of the file you have just installed 3 Use I have been using a few of the module styles extensively during the last months and haven t had any significant trouble The module has been used both with traditional mkii and with the new mkiv version of ConTRXt both have worked I have not tested the module with X4I X but there s no obvious reason why it shouldn t work 4 Setting up the Module To use the module you put this line into your source file usemodule taspresent style font size stylecolor stylebottom The values for the different keys will be explained in the following sections 5 The st
6. x Na EEEE ENE MENEE Figure 24 A picture with a red circle 27 8 7 ArrowHoriz This command works exactly like PicHoriz but takes an additional third argu ment It places a red arrow on top of the picture the direction and size of this arrow is determined by this third argument CircHoriz direction 135 x 120 y 80 image height NormalHeight The direction key sets the direction into which the arrowhead points x and y set its horizontal and vertical position You will probably have to fiddle with these keys to get the arrow exactly where you want it Red Arrow x Na EEEE E NME E Figure 25 A picture with a red arrow 28 8 8 CireVert and ArrowVert Of course there are also circles and arrows for vertical pictures again the first argument is the position of the circle arrow CircVert scale 22 x 23 y 25 vert width NormalWidth Circle in Vertical Mode ArrowVert direction 90 x 7 y 23 vert width NormalWidth Arrow in Vertical Mode Circle in Vertical Mode Figure 26 Vertical picture with red circle 29 Arrow in Vertical Mode Figure 27 Vertical picture with red arrow 8 9 Background Some of the styles provide up to three backgrounds for titles for slides with vertical image and for normal slides with text or horizontal images Switching the back grounds also adjusts parameters like margins or headers where this is nece
7. 1 Introduction The modules in the taspresent directory aim to provide an easy to use consistent interface for writing simple presentations in Con TFXt I had the idea to write this module when I was preparing my own presentations with ConTpXxt I wanted to be able to achieve visually different results without changing my source files so I wrote different styles that followed the same logic and provided the same macros When I created this module I had the following requirements in mind e Most of the styles that are provided are rather sober in appearance I use them for my university lectures in the humanities They provide a nice but not too distracting background and a lot of space for presentations with large amounts of text e The module is meant for presentations which will be shown with the help of a digital projector Hence they have no interactive elements such as buttons and no tools for navigation such as a table of contents e The module allows for user configurability It comes with several predefined styles and some predefined font options The modular structure makes it easy to add further styles e Picture placement and changing backgrounds is made easy by predefined macros The module provides a simple basic structure I think it will be best suited for beginners or intermediate users of Con T Xt It is definitely not meant to compete with Hans s fuller and fancier presentation modules and it offers much less than
8. ame style with the stylebottom square option 5 6 Similar to the bl style but there is a differently shaded area on the left with a progress meter a Text E Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a Figure 7 The douk style 10 5 7 embossed Spread the word don t be shy Show your pride in using ConT Xt The color theme will probably look familiar I copied it from the enattab manual Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust t
9. econd argument determines the size If your picture is not too broad a height of NormalHeight will make it fill up the entire text area If your picture is too broad you should set width textwidth Picture in Horizontal Mode Se HBHREAHHEHEEHE SE amp Figure 22 Placement of a horizontal picture 25 8 5 PicVert This macro facilitates the placement of portrait images It takes three arguments PicVert image width NormalWidth Text to go with the picture Again the first argument is the name of the image you want to place the second argument determines the size If your picture is not too high a width of Normal Width will make it fill up the entire left half of the text area If your picture is too high you should set height textheight The third argument is the text that will be placed opposite the picture Picture in Vertical Mode HBHRERHEAHHHEE amp Figure 23 Placement of a vertical picture 26 8 6 CircHoriz This command works exactly like PicHoriz but takes an additional third argu ment It places a red circle on top of the picture the placement and size of this circle is determined by this third argument CircHoriz scale 40 x 120 y 80 image height NormalHeight The scale key sets the diameter of the circle in mm x and y set horizontal and vertical position You will probably have to fiddle with these keys to get the circle exactly where you want it Red Circle
10. first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If I had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 2 The bluegray style 5 3 bluestripe This theme is inspired by the Berkeley style of the TFX beamer package The only ornament is the little counter in the lower left corner which looks like a stop watch Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of anew system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX sig nificantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hun dreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments
11. he real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 8 The embossed style 11 5 8 graybeams This design is inspired by the husky theme for the ATEX package powerdot created by Jack Stalnaker Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Marriage the Chief Cause of Divorce 2 of 15 Figure 9 The graybeams style 12 5 9 graysquare This minimalistic design is inspired by a presentation Taco gave at EuroTeX 2006 Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX sig nificantly If had not participated fully in all these acti
12. igner of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities liter ally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were impor tant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a sin gle person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 15 The quadblue style 18 5 15 rainbowstripe A colorful style for daring presenters The black line which marks the progress is reminiscent of absorption lines in star spectra so this style may be apt for astro physical presentations Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of anew system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single pe
13. n If you want to develop your own theme I would suggest copying one of the style files to another name say MyStyle tex and modifying it to your heart s content you can change the colors or define a dif ferent background altogether think of a different way of displaying titles different margins etc Just be sure to define all the macros that are needed After producing your own style again copy it to a place where T X can find it such as the same directory where the source of your presentation resides and instruct the module to use your file usemodule taspresent style MyStyle font Times size 17pt 22 6 The font Key There is a number of predefined fonts which can be selected by setting the font key LatinModern typesets in LatinModern Serif LatinModernSans typesets in LatinModern Sans Times the free clone of TimesNew Roman Helvetica the free clone of Helvetica Pagella the tex gyre clone of Palatino this will only work if you have the tex gyre fonts installed In addition there is a value User this will not set a font but allow you to provide your own settings If you set your own font please remember to select the bodyfont at Normalsize and to give your setup commands after loading the module or TeX will not know what Normalsize means and complain about an undefined control sequence For example for the samples included here I have used my own typescript which defines the Adobe MyriadPro font u
14. rson Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 16 The rainbowstripe style 19 5 16 redframe This style is inspired by the screen version of the Metafun manual Watch the small gray circles at the bottom Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were im portant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 17 The redframe style 20 5 17 superellipse This style is inspired by Hans s funny style s pre 03 The light red stripe marks the progress Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX sig
15. setypescriptfile type myriadpro usetypescript MyriadPro texnansi setupbodyfont MyMyriadPro ss Normalsize 7 The size Key This selects the font size for the main text and defines a corresponding size for titles Value Normalsize Titlesize 16pt 16pt 25pt 17pt 17pt 27pt 18pt 18pt 28pt 19pt 19pt 30pt 20pt 20pt 30pt 21pt 21pt 30pt Figure 20 Text and title sizes 8 Macros The module provides some macros to facilitate the preparation of presentations 23 8 1 setvariables Begin your presentation by setting the name of the author s and the title with this macro setvariables taspresent L author Groucho Marx title Marriage the Chief Cause of Divorce 8 2 Maketitle This macro will produce a title page with the author and the title of the presentation the look is of course determined by the style of your presentation July 25 2007 1 of 14 Marriage the Chief Cause of Divorce Groucho Marx July 25 2007 Groucho Marx Marriage the Chief Cause of Divorce Figure 21 A Title Page 8 3 Slidetitle As the name suggests this macro typesets its argument as the title of the slide What the title looks like is determined by the selected presentation style 24 8 4 PicHoriz This macro facilitates the placement of landscape images It takes two arguments PicHoriz Limage height NormalHeight The first argument is the name of the image you want to place the s
16. ssary There are three commands for setting the background for title slides horizontal slides and vertical slides respectively titback lecback picback 9 Handouts The easiest way to make handouts from your slides is post processing the pdf file of your presentation If you want to make the handouts from the slides such as 30 they appear just run this command in the directory where your slides are located of course put the name of your own presentation where you see demo pdf in the example the entire command has to go in one long line texmfstart texexec pdfcombine combination 2 3 nobanner result handout demo pdf This way you will get a handout with six slides typeset in two columns per page If you prefer to have the handouts without the colored background typeset your presentation and leave the style key unset that way you will get a default version without backgrounds and fancy frames
17. to the conclusion that the designer of anew system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Marriage the Chief Cause of Divorce 2 of 14 Figure 12 The horizontalblue style 15 5 12 lightblue This style emphasizes the title with its lively colors the text area is delimited by a light blue shaded margin Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX significantly If had not participated fully in all these activities liter ally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were impor tant But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a sin
18. vities literally hun dreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a sin gle person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 10 The graysquare style 13 5 10 greenblue This style has cool colors and lots of white space it is probably best suited for presentations with relatively little text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of anew system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TEX sig nificantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hun dreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 11 The greenblue style 14 5 11 horizontalblue A sober style with an emphasis on horizontal lines inspired by beamer s Szeged theme Text Thus came
19. yle Key There are eighteen options for the style key 5 1 blackblue This style was inspired by the Copenhagen theme of the ATRX beamer package The narrow blue and black stripes at the top and the bottom of the slides display the date and slidenumber top and the title and author of the presentation July 25 2007 2 of 14 Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of anew system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the first user manual The separation of any of these four components would have hurt TeX signif icantly If had not participated fully in all these activities literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made because would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important Buta system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single per son Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments Figure 1 The blackblue style 5 2 bluegray The colors of this style are very subdued and quiet the interesting thing is the pagenumber on the border of the margin and text area this detail was inspired by Hans s split style pre 14 Text Thus came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large scale user the designer should also write the
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