New CTAN package: lecturer
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jul 28 00:12:10 CEST 2010
that old daemon was warned to expect something big, and...
> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
>
> Name of contribution: lecturer
> Author's name: Paul Isambert
> Location on CTAN: macros/generic
> Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for
> (almost) all formats.
> License type: lppl
>
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF
> features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The
> presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by
> step.
>
> Features include:
> - Free positioning of anything anywhere in painted areas on the slide,
> as well as in the main textblock.
> - Numerous attributes to control the layout and the presentation flow,
> from TeX's primitive dimensions to the visibility of steps.
> - Feature inheritance from global to local settings, with intermediate
> types.
> - Basic drawing facilities to produce symbols, e.g. for list items or
> buttons.
> - Colors, transparency, shades, and pictures.
> - Navigation with links, pop-up menus, and customizable bookmarks.
> - Easy switch between presentation and handout.
> - PDF transitions.
>
> Besides the traditional documentation, the distribution includes a
> visual doc (LecturerDemo-VisualDoc.pdf) and six demo presentations
> ranging from geometric abstraction to classic style to silly video
> game.
>
> Lecturer is designed for all formats except ConTeXt MkIV (because of
> clashes in management of PDF objects, probably), works only with
> pdfTeX and LuaTeX for the time being, and requires texapi and yax,
> both v.1.02.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
thanks for the upload; i have installed it, and created a catalogue
entry for it.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lecturer.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/lecturer/
of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time
tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
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