Presentations

How to create 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}
  }
  

• 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.

For additional information please refer to the documentation included with the prosper distribution.