Re: Presentation Slides Template

David Duffy <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Mar 2014 11:15:53 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Matthias Teege wrote:

> I use lout for my documents.  Most of them are simple ones.  Now I
> have to prepare some presentation slides.  Does anyone have some
> simple templates for screen presentation slides?

I just made small changes to the original "slides" file, the most 
important one being changing to landscape and shrinking the margins

diff slides slides.orig
>   # @InitialBackgroundColour { white		} # initial background 
colour
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<     @PageOrientation	{ Landscape     	} # Portrait, Landscape, 
etc.
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<     @TopMargin		{ 0.5c	@OrIfPlain 6f	} # top margin of 
all pages
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<     @FootMargin		{ 0.5c			} # bottom margin 
of all pages
---
>     @FootMargin		{ 5.00c			} # bottom margin 
of all pages
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<     @OddLeftMargin	{ 0.5c	@OrIfPlain 10s	} # left margin of odd 
pages
<     @OddRightMargin	{ 0.5c	@OrIfPlain 10s	} # right margin of odd 
pages
<     @EvenLeftMargin	{ 0.5c	@OrIfPlain 10s	} # left margin of even 
pages
<     @EvenRightMargin	{ 0.5c	@OrIfPlain 10s	} # right margin of even 
pages
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<     @OddLeftBodyMargin	{ 0.5c			} # extra margin 
for page body
<     @OddRightBodyMargin	{ 0.5c			} # extra margin 
for page body
<     @EvenLeftBodyMargin	{ 0.5c			} # extra margin 
for page body
<     @EvenRightBodyMargin{ 0.5c			} # extra margin 
for page body
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>   # @PageBoxLineWidth	{			} # page box line 
thickness
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<     @PageBoxType	{ Box 			} # None Box CurveBox 
ShadowBox
<     @PageBoxMargin	{ 0.1c			} # page box margin
<     @PageBoxLineWidth	{ 0.001c		} # page box line 
thickness
<     @PageBoxPaint	{  { rgb 1 1 0.97 }     } # page box paint
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<     @PageHeaders	{ None  		} # None Simple Titles 
NoTitles
---
>     @PageHeaders	{ Titles		} # None Simple Titles 
NoTitles
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>   # @PageNumberFormat   { number                } # format of all page 
numbers
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>   # @TitleFormat		{ @Center clines @Break title } # title 
line
>   # @AuthorFormat		{ @Center clines @Break author } # author 
line
>   # @InstitutionFormat		{ @Center clines @Break @I 
institution } # inst
>   # @DateLineFormat		{ @Center date          } # date line
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<     @OverheadHeadingBreak	{ 0.5fx nohyphen	} # overhead head 
break
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<     @AboveOverheadGap		{ 0.6f			} # gap above over 
head

===============================
So the slides look like:

#
# Lout file
#
@SysInclude { math }
@SysInclude { tbl }
@SysInclude { diag }
@SysInclude { slides }

@OverheadTransparencies

@Title { " " //  New Stuff (2009) //
       { @Centre 8.0c @Wide @Scale { 0d @Rotate @IncludeGraphic 
"./escargot.eps" } }
       }
     @RunningTitle { New Stuff 2009 }
     @Author { David Duffy }
     @Institution { Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, QIMR}
//
#
# Slide 1
#
@Overhead
     @Title { Things to do }
@Begin

@CD {
@BulletList
   @LI { Multithreading via OMP: probably 3-4 fold speed improvement }
   @LI { GLMM VC linkage analysis }
@EndList
}

@End @Overhead

Cheers, David Duffy.