Re[2]: foilhead position

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

> Hello Hans Fr. Nordhaug,
> 
> Monday, March 24, 2003, 11:04:32 AM, you wrote:
> 
> HFN> Moving the foilhead title/header means increasing the textheight/area and
> HFN> that is a bit tricky. Basically you have to make
> HFN> your own copy of foils.cls and 
> HFN> make the necessary changes. You are not allowed
> HFN> to change it and keep the 
> HFN> name... I think the important line is 
> 
> HFN>   \addtolength\textheight{-2in}
> 
> HFN> Replace "-2in" with something else. (You have to do it in the class -
> HFN> afterwards doesn't work.) Tell me/the list hwo it goes.
> 
> No, it just increases the space after the head, so the
> former fulfilled single slide results into two slides. Seems
> that it is not possible to modify the foiltex class and
> that's a pity because I find that one could improve the use
> of the dead space in the slide. Yes, I could move my
> presentation from foiltex to either pdfscreen or powersem,
> but I wonder if it worths the effort (I do not know if the
> use of one or the other classes or packages is just a
> question of taste or foiltex is "the way" to standardise the
> presentations).

I said it was tricky - not impossible. I have made a custom class for my 
(former) department at University of Bergen that has a set margin command.
See the follwoing example:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
\documentclass[dvips,a4paper,headrule]{foils}
\usepackage{parskip} % I don't like intended pars in foils
\makeatletter
\newlength{\mf@translate}
\setlength\mf@translate\paperheight
\addtolength\mf@translate{-2in}
% Redefining macro 'foil@rot@start' for dvips
\if@pdftex\else
  \def\foil@rot@start{\special{ps:%
    0 \strip@pt\mf@translate\space 72.27 div Resolution mul translate
    90 neg rotate
   }}%
\fi
\newlength{\mf@diff}
\newlength{\mf@margin}
\newcommand{\setallmargins}[1]{%
  \setlength\mf@margin{#1}
  \setlength{\mf@diff}{-1in}
  \addtolength\mf@diff\mf@margin
  \addtolength\hoffset{\mf@diff}
  \addtolength\voffset{\mf@diff}
  \setlength\textwidth{\paperwidth}
  \addtolength\textwidth{-2\mf@margin}
  \setlength\textheight{\paperheight}
  \addtolength\textheight{-2\mf@margin}
  % \addtolength\textheight{-\head@footskip}
  % The line above is replaced with three lines below.
  % I don't remember why - more robust I guess.
  \addtolength\textheight{-\footskip}
  \addtolength\textheight{-\headsep}
  \addtolength\textheight{-\headheight}
}
\makeatother
\setallmargins{1cm}
\addtolength\foilheadskip{-\baselineskip}
\begin{document}
\foilhead{test}
A word
\rotatefoilhead{test}
A word
\end{document}
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comments:
1) I recommend putting everything between (not including) \makeatletter 
   and \makeatother in a file called for example foiladditions.sty and 
   load it with \usepackage{foiladditions}. It's much cleaner.
2) \setallmargins sets all margins. If you want to keep the width unchanged
   just edit the command as your need (or make a \setvertmargin command). 
   I have assumed that you want the text area centered. 
3) I prefer I smaller \foilheadskip - as you see.
4) Using the dvips option all the time is nice since it's automatically 
   overridden if you are using pdflatex.
I hope this works for you - it works for my department.

> HFN> Yes. Just define a command \bfenhanced like
> 
> HFN>  \newcommand{\bfenhanced}[1]{%
> HFN>   \textbf{\highlightenhanced{#1}}}
> 
> HFN> and do 
> 
> HFN>  
> HFN> \liststepwise*[\let\hidestepcontents=\hidedimmed\let\activatestep=\bfenhanced]{%
> HFN>   ...}
> 
> It works like a charm!
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I'm glad you liked it.

> Do you usually set this  light background for your presentations
> or is this just the default example you normally provides to
> texpower users? (just curious because I am trying to setup a
> standard template for my future presentations).

No, I normally use a dark (not black) background, but my opinion is as 
good (or bad) as yours. This is the only minimal, but complete, example I 
have handy.   

> Best regards and many thanks.

Your welcome.

Hans




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