Nic's Stuff

Presentations

• Document class:

  \documentclass[OPTIONS]{prosper}
  

• Options: (Options printed in italic are the default for the current pair.)
  • draft, final
  • slideColor, slideBW
  • total, nototal
  • colorBG, nocolorBG
  • ps, pdf
  • accumulate, noaccumulate
• Macros for the preamble:
  • Author: \author{AUTHOR}
  • Title: \title{TITLE}
  • Subtitle: \subtitle{SUBTITLE}
  • Email: \email{EMAIL}
  • Institution: \institution{INSTITUTION}
  • Caption at the bottom of slides: \slideCaption{CAPTION}
  • Detault transition: \DetaultTransition{TRANSITION}
    (Valid values are: Split, Blinds, Box, Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Replace; the default transition is Replace)
• Document structure:

  \documentclass{prosper}
  
  \author{me}
  \title{presentation}
  \subtitle{cool}
  \email{noone@nowhere.no}
  \institution{uni of no}
  
  \begin{document}
  \maketitle
  
  % slides
  
  \end{document}
  

• Definition of slides:

  \begin{slide}[TRANSITION]{TITLE}
  
  % text
  
  \end{slide}
  

  Additional macros include:
  • To set the transition effect from the previous slide to the current:

    \PDFtransition{TRANSITION}
    

• Definition of NUMBER overlays:

  \overlays{NUMBER}{
  \begin{slide}[TRANSITION]{TITLE}
  
  % text
  
  \end{slide}
  }
  

  Additional macros include:
  • Text to appear on slides beginning with NUMBER:

    \fromSlide{NUMBER}{
    % text
    }
    

  • Text to appear on slide NUMBER only:

    \onlySlide{NUMBER}{
    % text
    }
    

  • Text to appear on slides ending with NUMBER:

    \untilSlide{NUMBER}{
    % text
    }
    

• Styles: Styles are selected by adding them as an option to the documentclass definition.