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\documentclass{slides}
\usepackage{color}
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NOTE: This is for making transparencies -- letter-size,
portrait-orientation, large font size -- to be printed on transparency
film and displayed using an overhead projector.
For a landscape-orientation digital/PDF document, to be displayed directly on a computer monitor or computer projector, use the prosper class instead. |
The slides class use a bigger base font size, suitable for transparency presentations, and provides an easy way to make overlays -- a transparency which can be laid on top of a previous transparency to fill in certain gaps. Read about it in the book by Kopka and Daly. Package graphicx is used to insert the image from PostScript file trefoil.eps.
\documentclass{slides} % for transparencies
\usepackage[dvips]{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newcommand{\spacer}{\rule[-3mm]{0mm}{8mm}}
\title{Making \LaTeX{} ``Slides''}
\author{Albert.Ornstein@Colorado.EDU}
\date{15 July 2005}
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 0
\maketitle
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 1 using COLOR
% sample usage: \textcolor{blue}{Here you put text.}
\begin{slide}
\begin{itemize}
\item You can put figures and tables into slides,
using the \verb9\includegraphics{}9 command
and the {\tt tabular} environment,
{\em but}
\item you can't use the {\bf figure} and
{\bf table} environments;
\LaTeX{} won't number and caption
figures and tables.
\item Predefined colors are % COLORS!!!!
\textcolor{blue}{blue}, \textcolor{red}{red}, \textcolor{black}{black},
\colorbox{blue}{\textcolor{white}{white}},
\textcolor{cyan}{cyan}, \textcolor{magenta}{magenta},
\textcolor{yellow}{yellow}, \textcolor{green}{green}.
Define colors? Colored formulae? You bet!
\verb2\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.4,0}2
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.4,0}
\\ \textcolor{darkgreen}{$A = \pi r^2$}:
$$
\textcolor{darkgreen}{\int_0^r 2\pi x \, dx = \pi r^2.}
$$
\end{itemize}
\end{slide}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 2
\begin{slide}
For example, here we import an image from
a PostScript file:
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=85mm]{trefoil.eps}
\end{center}
and here's a \LaTeX{} picture;
\small
\begin{center}
\setlength{\unitlength}{15mm}
\newsavebox{\testcon}\savebox{\testcon}(0,0){
\thicklines
\put(0,0.5) {\line(-2,-1){1.0}}
\put(0,0.5) {\line(2,-1){1.0}}
\put(0,-0.5){\line(-2,1){1.0}}
\put(0,-0.5){\line(2,1){1.0}}
\put(0,0.5) {\makebox(0,0)[b]
{\put(0,0){\line(0,1){0.5}}}}
\put(1,0) {\line(1,0){1.0}}
\put(-1,0) {\line(-1,0){1.0}}
\put(-1.1,0.1) {\makebox(0,0)[br]{no}}
\put(1.1,0.1) {\makebox(0,0)[bl]{yes}}}
\begin{picture}(10,4)
\thicklines
\put(5,4){\vector(0,-1){1.1}}
\put(5,2){\usebox{\testcon}\makebox(0,0){$i=0$}}
\put(3,1){\usebox{\testcon}\makebox(0,0){$j \le i$}}
\put(7,1){\usebox{\testcon}\makebox(0,0){$k \neq j$}}
\put(0.6,1){\circle{1.0}\makebox(0,0){3}}
\put(9.4,1){\circle{1.0}\makebox(0,0){5}}
\put(5,1){\vector(0,-1){0.5}\circle*{0.1}}
\put(3.5,0){\framebox(3,0.5){$y = f(i,j,k)$}}
\end{picture}
\end{center}
\normalsize
\end{slide}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 3
\begin{slide}
\begin{center}
For more information about \LaTeX{} see \\
\verb2http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/latex2
or the printed manuals for \LaTeX{}.
\invisible Overlays are
\visible important
\invisible for presentation transparencies!!
\visible
\end{center}
\end{slide}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Overlay (3.1)
\begin{overlay}
\begin{center}
\invisible
For more information about \LaTeX{} see \\
\verb2http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/latex2
or the printed manuals for \LaTeX{}.
\visible Overlays are
\invisible important
\visible for presentation transparencies!!
\end{center}
\end{overlay}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 4
\begin{slide}
Here's a table, produced in the
{\tt tabular} environment.
In slides you may {\bf not}
put this into a {\tt table} environment,
i.e., surrounded by \verb9\begin{table}9
and \verb9\end{table}9.
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|c|} \hline
n & $L_1$ & $L_2$ & $L_3$ & W
\\ \hline \hline
2 & 1/2 & 1/3 & 1.28453 & 0.35728389 \\
& 1/3 & 2/3 & 1.98720 & 0.32497238 \\ \hline
& 1/4 & 1/4 & 2.97378 & 0.39902682 \\
3 & 1/3 & 1/2 & 3.09927 & 0.41826033 \\
& 1/2 & 3/4 & 3.14972 & 0.41991556 \\ \hline
& 1/5 & 1/5 & 4.29072 & 0.50297387 \\
4 & 1/4 & 2/5 & 4.87208 & 0.51993702 \\
& 1/3 & 3/5 & 4.96931 & 0.52083333 \\
& 1/2 & 4/5 & 4.99926 & 0.52000000 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{slide}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%===Slide 5
\begin{slide}
The {\bf slides} class lacks several of the environments
defined for other classes. Here's how the five basic
document classes compare:
\tiny % make it fit on the page!
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|l||c|c|c|c|c|} \hline
environment \spacer
& {\bf article} & {\bf report} & {\bf book} &
{\bf letter} & {\bf slides}
\\ \hline \hline
abstract \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & & &
\\ \hline
description \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
figure \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
figure* \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
picture \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
quotation \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
quote \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
table \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
table* \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
tabular \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
thebibliography \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
theindex \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & &
\\ \hline
titlepage \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
verse \spacer
& $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$ & $\bullet$
\\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{slide}
\end{document}