Re: overhead slides?
Riku == Riku Saikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riku This should mean, as far as I know, that seminar is DFSG Riku free nowadays. (Most of LaTeX2e appears to be licensed under Riku the same LPPL license.) Wow! Thanks for that (not that I have looked for followups in debian-user yet, will look tomorrow). Riku Given this, I don't know why seminar is still in Riku tetex-nonfree. Perhaps I should file a bug report? Yes, please do. Chances are that the maintainer hasn't realized. Which isn't surprising considering the number of packages for LaTeX. Also, gs often produces the following fatal gs error when viewing it with gv. :-(. Riku I haven't seen that, but then, I haven't produced more than Riku a few sets of slides. Use xdvi as a workaround? xdvi doesn't work for overlays. It seems like Tim is now actively maintaining the software again. Yah! Hopefully, he will fix the known bugs without requiring the work around, seminar.bug and seminar.bg2. However, I think this problem might be with dvips and/or gs. Will investigate in more detail later. Anyone know any tips for debugging postscript? How to turn the error message into a line number would be really good. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: overhead slides?
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides? Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in tetex-nonfree. Quoting from the start of /usr/share/doc/tetex-nonfree/copyright.seminar.gz: #With the agreement of Timothy Van Zandt (now [EMAIL PROTECTED]), #the distributions conditions on seminar are now relaxed to: # # This package may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public # License, as described in lppl.txt in the base LaTeX distribution. # Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version. # #This overrides the conditions listed below. A new version of #seminar is in preparation by Timothy van Zandt. # #June 3rd 1999 This should mean, as far as I know, that seminar is DFSG free nowadays. (Most of LaTeX2e appears to be licensed under the same LPPL license.) Given this, I don't know why seminar is still in tetex-nonfree. Perhaps I should file a bug report? Also, gs often produces the following fatal gs error when viewing it with gv. :-(. I haven't seen that, but then, I haven't produced more than a few sets of slides. Use xdvi as a workaround? -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
overhead slides?
Hello, Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides? Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in tetex-nonfree. Also, gs often produces the following fatal gs error when viewing it with gv. :-(. Error: /undefinedGNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in BOL Operand stack: (all) Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 5 5 %oparray_pop Dictionary stack: --dict:777/809-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:55/200-- --dict:118/300-- (not sure what program is at fault here... I don't know much postscript.) If nothing better exists, I will use it anyway, but just curious what other options might exist. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: overhead slides?
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:22:23AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides?
Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in
tetex-nonfree. Also, gs often produces the following fatal gs error
when viewing it with gv. :-(.
errors snipped
If nothing better exists, I will use it anyway, but just curious what
other options might exist.
As of Latex2E, there is a slide class as part of the base package.
Since it's pretty short, I'll throw in a one slide sample.
- Begin sample file -
\documentclass[a4paper,clock]{slides}
% The clock option lets you put timings onto the notes
\begin{document}
% This is basically just a cover sheet.
\begin{center}\Large\bfseries
Sample Viewgraphs
\end{center}
% Here we begin the start of the acrtual slide.
\begin{slide}
\begin{center}\Large Advantage of \texttt{slides}\end{center}
\begin{itemize}
\item Uses special fonts
\item Forces key words instead of long text
% This keyword and ...
\invisible
\item Supports color layers
% ... this keyword get explained shortly.
\visible
\end{itemize}
Color commands may be used {\invisible as color layers}
\end{slide}
% The slide class lets you do overlays. In the slide section
% above, the text after the \invisible and before the \visible
% won't get printed. If you then do a copy and paste into a
% section for the overlay, and then change the \visible to
% \invisible and vice versa you get an overlay with just the
% parts missing from the slide.
\begin{overlay}
\invisible
\begin{center}\Large Advantage of \texttt{slides}\end{center}
\begin{itemize}
\item Uses special fonts
\item Forces key words instead of long text
\visible
\item Supports color layers
\invisible
\end{itemize}
Color commands may be used {\visible as color layers}
\end{overlay}
% This is the command to put a timing onto a note. A counter is
% initialized to 0, and then time can be added or subtracted
% using the \addtime command. There is also a \settime command
% The value in the {} is in seconds, and is displayed as minutes
% and seconds on the note.
\addtime{300}
\begin{note}
Add the overlay only for \LaTeX~2.09
\end{note}
\end{document}
- End sample file -
I can't say for sure that this will do what you want, but it
might at least be close. And the slide.cls is contained in the
tetex base package, so it is free.
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Re: overhead slides?
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:22:23 +1000, Brian May wrote: Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides? Yes. Have a look at http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~jdassen/talks/ortec/ for the sources of an overhead/projector presentation I prepared using pdflatex, ImageMagick and thumbpdf. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
Re: overhead slides?
Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:22:23AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
Is there any DFSG free software for producing overhead slides?
Something like seminar.sty (latex) would be ideal, but thats in
tetex-nonfree. Also, gs often produces the following fatal gs error
when viewing it with gv. :-(.
errors snipped
If nothing better exists, I will use it anyway, but just curious what
other options might exist.
As of Latex2E, there is a slide class as part of the base package.
Since it's pretty short, I'll throw in a one slide sample.
And if you don't like \ and { and } ;-), you can use lyx to
write you slides in a WYSIWYM way (mind the trailing M ...)
See http://www.lyx.org
HTH
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