Re: foilhead position

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Agustín E. Bolzán wrote:

> I am using foiltex and want to move the foilhead title
> upwards in order to use more space in the slide for the
> text. I revised the foiltex dvi and found no clear
> indication about how to do that. Could anybody in the list
> give me a clue?.

Moving the foilhead title/header means increasing the textheight/area and 
that is a bit tricky. Basically you have to make your own copy of foils.cls and 
make the necessary changes. You are not allowed to change it and keep the 
name... I think the important line is 

  \addtolength\textheight{-2in}

Replace "-2in" with something else. (You have to do it in the class - 
afterwards doesn't work.) Tell me/the list hwo it goes.

> Another question: is it possible to define the \activatestep
> in order to change not only the colour of the active text
> but also the font type (i.e. bold on activation, normal
> after that)?

Yes. Just define a command \bfenhanced like

 \newcommand{\bfenhanced}[1]{%
  \textbf{\highlightenhanced{#1}}}

and do 

  \liststepwise*[\let\hidestepcontents=\hidedimmed\let\activatestep=\bfenhanced]{%
  ...}

Or as I *always* prefer - give a minimal, but complete, example. (You have 
seen this one before - setting the colors to better see \highlightenhanced.)

-------------------------
 \documentclass{article}
 \usepackage[display, lightbackground]{texpower}
 \defineTPcolor[lightbg]{pagecolor}{rgb}{.5,.5,.5} % Redefining pagecolor
 \defineTPcolor[lightbg]{etextcolor}{rgb}{0.5,0,0} % Added to better see when it's highlighted.
 \lightbackground                                  % making the new defs available
 \newcommand{\bfenhanced}[1]{%                  
  \textbf{\highlightenhanced{#1}}}
 \begin{document}
 \begin{itemize}
 \liststepwise*[\let\hidestepcontents=\hidedimmed\let\activatestep=\bfenhanced]{%
 \step{\item 1 word}
 \step{\item 2 word}
 \step{\item 3 word}
 \step{\item 4 word}
 \step{}
 }
 \end{itemize}
 \end{document}
-------------------------

Regards, Hans



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