Re: New Features

Hello Murali,

This seems really a good contribution.
I have added your own words about that on WikiProsper 
(http://wikiprosper.tuxfamily.org) in the section ProsperAddons available at
	http://wikiprosper.tuxfamily.org/index.php?pagename=ProsperAddons

Feel free to correct the text and to add more explanations.

Laurent.

On Saturday 18 October 2003 01:41, ganapathy murali krishnan wrote:
> Couple of months ago when I had some spare time in my hands, I decided
> to add some features to prosper. I was wondering if anybody would want
> to try it out, and possibly improve the feature set.
>
> The current features include:
>
> 1. Use hyperref to generate bookmarks instead of raw PDF. This results
> in hierarchical bookmarks being generated.
>
> 2. Automatically generate a PDFtarget for each slide, overlay and part.
> So one can place hypertargets more easily.
>
> 3. Add support for navigation panels in the bottom of the slides.
>
> 4. Add macros for generating navigation buttons for (nextslide,
> nextpart, prevpart, prevslide, startofpart...)
>
> 5. partslide and titleslide are new environments (similar to slide though).
>
> 6. \part is now a wrapper around partslide environment. If you need a
> part slide which has additional information, then you can use the
> \begin{partslide} \end{partslide}
>
> Based on the mails in the mailing list, one additional feature which
> would be useful is to make the slide environment take an additional
> argument which specifies the slide style.
>
> \begin[style=default,transition=Glitter]{slide title}
> ...
> \end{slide}
>
> \begin[style=cylinder]{next slide title}
> ....
> \end{slide}
>
> would make the two slides with different backgrounds, look and feel...
> To make use of the navigation panel, the PPRfiles should have a call to
> \PutPanel, after the call to \PutLogo.
>
> The only caveat is that since I am LaTeX guy most of the new code, is in
> LaTeX and not TeX. So they may not be very efficient.
>
> If people are interested in trying it out, I can email the
> newprosper.cls (for want of a better name).
>
> - Murali
>
>
>
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