lecturer

* lecturer
@ 2010-07-28 14:08 Thomas A. Schmitz
  2010-07-28 17:30 ` lecturer Taco Hoekwater
  2010-07-29  4:37 ` lecturer Aditya Mahajan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2010-07-28 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this? 

Thomas

> 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.
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