CTAN update: powerdot v1.1

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Sep 19 10:55:58 CEST 2005


On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Hendri Adriaens submitted a new version of the 

   powerdot

package.

Powerdot is a presentation class for LaTeX that allows for the quick
and easy development of professional presentations. It comes with many
tools that enhance presentations and aid the presenter.

Summary of features:
 - portrait and landscape slides;
 - screen ratio, a4 paper and letter paper;
 - simple interface for making presentations fast;
 - DVI, PS or PDF output can be used for viewing;
 - powerful template system to easily develop new styles;
 - easy overlays creations;
 - personal notes;
 - handout mode;
 - black slides.

The class currently comes with 6 different styles, but work is being
done to add more styles.

Changes for version 1.1:

powerdot v1.1, important:
We have switched from `size=10' to `size=10pt'. Don't forget to update
your presentation(s) after installing the new class.

Short overview of changes:
 1) blackslide options adds hyperlink to slide and section titles
 2) Added elcolors, aggie, husky and sailor styles
 3) Added tocsecindent and tocslideindent options
 4) Added graphical examples of styles to documentation
 5) Added LyX layout, description and example
 6) Changed size=10 to size=10pt
 7) Extended FAQ
 8) Fixed some small bugs
 9) Improved tycja, ciment and fyma styles
 10) Improved section title handling

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Thanks for the update.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf




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