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From: Nordhaug H. F. <Han...@hi...> - 2015-02-03 22:30:44
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Hi, Pascal. I can't answer your question because it's so long since I last used and/or wrote code for TeXPower. I have switched to Beamer long time ago and I recommend that you do the same because Beamer is properly maintained. I was actively using TeXPower 15 years ago and I was doing bugfixes for some years, but not anymore. Regards, Hans - TeXPower maintainer, sort of. ________________________________________ Fra: Pascal Kockaert [Pas...@ul...] Sendt: 3. februar 2015 23:03 To: tex...@li... Emne: [Texpower-users] seminar.cls and 12pt option not working Dear TeXpower users, I'm fighting with seminar.cls that is bundled with texpower in order to get 12pt text in the book class (bookclass). Digging into the code, I have noticed that just after the class is loaded, normalsize is redefined. Is this a feature? Is there any clean way to enforce the 12pt option, without modifying seminar.cls? At the moment, I have made a copy paste of the original definition of normalsize after seminar.cls is loaded... Kind regards. Pascal P.S. I know that these packages are deprecated, but I'm using them for some course manual that I'm editing every year for then years or so. By the way thank you to all maintainers of these packages. -- Pascal Kockaert, Professeur assistant, OPÉRA-photonique, CP194/5 50, Av. F.D. Roosevelt http://opera.ulb.ac.be/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Texpower-users mailing list Tex...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/texpower-users |
From: Pascal K. <Pas...@ul...> - 2015-02-03 22:03:38
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Dear TeXpower users, I'm fighting with seminar.cls that is bundled with texpower in order to get 12pt text in the book class (bookclass). Digging into the code, I have noticed that just after the class is loaded, normalsize is redefined. Is this a feature? Is there any clean way to enforce the 12pt option, without modifying seminar.cls? At the moment, I have made a copy paste of the original definition of normalsize after seminar.cls is loaded... Kind regards. Pascal P.S. I know that these packages are deprecated, but I'm using them for some course manual that I'm editing every year for then years or so. By the way thank you to all maintainers of these packages. -- Pascal Kockaert, Professeur assistant, OPÉRA-photonique, CP194/5 50, Av. F.D. Roosevelt http://opera.ulb.ac.be/ |
From: Nordhaug H. F. <Han...@hi...> - 2014-08-07 11:54:47
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Hi, Ranousse! I don't have time to look at this, but you should know: 1) TeXPower is a dead project. It has been years since I had time to look at it or fix issues. 2) Most people, me included, has switched to Beamer. Best regards, Hans Nordhaug - maintainer. PS! I do accept patches and will find time to release a new version if necessary. Ranousse wrote on the 2014-08-07: > \parstepwise{% > \step[][\value{step}=1\or\value{step}=2]{a -- on 1 and 2}\\ > \step[][\value{step}=2\or\value{step}=3]{b -- on 2 and 3}\\ > \step[][\value{step}=3\or\value{step}=4]{c -- on 3 and 4}% } > > The previous code does not work as intented. > The last step is shown when step=3 but not when step=4 > because totalsteps=3. > Is there a way to force totalsteps to be 4 ? > > More generally I would like to write a macro \visible that could be > used like this : > \visible[3, 5]{text} % text is shown on step 3, 4 and 5 only. > > Without the problem shown above, such a macro could be : > \def\visible[#1,#2]{\step[\value{step}=#1][\not\value{step}<#1\and\not\value{step}>#2]} |
From: Ranousse <ran...@gm...> - 2014-08-07 11:29:24
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\parstepwise{% \step[][\value{step}=1\or\value{step}=2]{a -- on 1 and 2}\\ \step[][\value{step}=2\or\value{step}=3]{b -- on 2 and 3}\\ \step[][\value{step}=3\or\value{step}=4]{c -- on 3 and 4}% } The previous code does not work as intented. The last step is shown when step=3 but not when step=4 because totalsteps=3. Is there a way to force totalsteps to be 4 ? More generally I would like to write a macro \visible that could be used like this : \visible[3, 5]{text} % text is shown on step 3, 4 and 5 only. Without the problem shown above, such a macro could be : \def\visible[#1,#2]{\step[\value{step}=#1][\not\value{step}<#1\and\not\value{step}>#2]} |
From: Norbert G. <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> - 2007-09-24 12:29:59
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Hi all, On Mon, Sep 24 2007, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > > We have communicated off-list and found the solution: > > Norbert used the wrong driver (option) for the hyperref package - for > pdflatex use "pdftex" and for latex+dvips+ps2pdf use "ps2pdf". > The "problem" is that most of the TeXPower examples are written for > latex+dvips+ps2pdf and hence uses the ps2pdf driver. By the way, I > think hyperref auto-detects if you are using pdflatex and hence you > might as well leave out the criver option. thank you for your valuable help. I have appreciated very much. Cheers, Norbert -- Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred. Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/ |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2007-09-24 11:38:10
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* Norbert Gruener <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> [2007-09-24]: > Hi Hans, > > On Fri, Sep 21 2007, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > > * Norbert Gruener <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> [2007-09-20]: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a working example of "Automatic advancing of pages" > > > as described in the "TeXPower bundle" documentation under section 4.2. > > > > > > All examples for "automatic advancing" included within the TeXPower > > > distribution (version 0.2) are not working under my Acrobat Reader > > > (version 8.1.1). My OS is Linux, Kernel 2.4.27. I am using acroread > > > in "full screen" mode but nothing happens. I have to step each page > > > manually. > > > > > > Is it a problem of my Acrobat Reader or I am doing something complete > > > wrong? > > > > I just tested http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf > > and it works in Adobe Reader (AR) 8.1 on Windows - view full screen > > and go to the second page. Does that file work for you? > > now it gets strange. > > I have picked up the example from sourcefored > > http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf > > And this example works. > > But if I compile the source tex file "divexample.tex" which comes with the > TeXPower source > > pdflatex divexample.tex > > nothing happens. Is there anything I am doing wrong? I can supply > the "divexample.log" file if it is on any interest. We have communicated off-list and found the solution: Norbert used the wrong driver (option) for the hyperref package - for pdflatex use "pdftex" and for latex+dvips+ps2pdf use "ps2pdf". The "problem" is that most of the TeXPower examples are written for latex+dvips+ps2pdf and hence uses the ps2pdf driver. By the way, I think hyperref auto-detects if you are using pdflatex and hence you might as well leave out the criver option. Regards, Hans |
From: Norbert G. <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> - 2007-09-24 08:10:50
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Hi Hans, On Fri, Sep 21 2007, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > * Norbert Gruener <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> [2007-09-20]: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a working example of "Automatic advancing of pages" > > as described in the "TeXPower bundle" documentation under section 4.2. > > > > All examples for "automatic advancing" included within the TeXPower > > distribution (version 0.2) are not working under my Acrobat Reader > > (version 8.1.1). My OS is Linux, Kernel 2.4.27. I am using acroread > > in "full screen" mode but nothing happens. I have to step each page > > manually. > > > > Is it a problem of my Acrobat Reader or I am doing something complete > > wrong? > > I just tested http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf > and it works in Adobe Reader (AR) 8.1 on Windows - view full screen > and go to the second page. Does that file work for you? now it gets strange. I have picked up the example from sourcefored http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf And this example works. But if I compile the source tex file "divexample.tex" which comes with the TeXPower source pdflatex divexample.tex nothing happens. Is there anything I am doing wrong? I can supply the "divexample.log" file if it is on any interest. Cheers, Norbert -- Ceterum censeo | PGP encrypted mail preferred. Redmond esse delendam. | PGP Key at www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/ |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2007-09-21 14:14:23
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* Hans F. Nordhaug <Han...@hi...> [2007-09-21]: > * Norbert Gruener <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> [2007-09-20]: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a working example of "Automatic advancing of pages" > > as described in the "TeXPower bundle" documentation under section 4.2. > > > > All examples for "automatic advancing" included within the TeXPower > > distribution (version 0.2) are not working under my Acrobat Reader > > (version 8.1.1). My OS is Linux, Kernel 2.4.27. I am using acroread > > in "full screen" mode but nothing happens. I have to step each page > > manually. > > > > Is it a problem of my Acrobat Reader or I am doing something complete > > wrong? > > Sorry for the late reply. > > Since you don't post a minimal example, I can't possibly say if you do > something wrong or not :-) > > I just tested http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf > and it works in Adobe Reader (AR) 8.1 on Windows - view full screen > and go to the second page. Does that file work for you? This is of course outside the browser, but I think you already did that. And reading your text above again, I guess you have already tested this file, right? Anyway, the advice I gave below is the best I know. Hans > If not, > have you read section 3.8 - "Set acrobat reader's automatic page > advancing feature" - on page 68-69 of the implementation docs[1]? > That text is quite old, but it might be relevant for your new AR > too - automatic page advancing has been buggy in AR all the time. > > Regards, > Hans > > [1] http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/texpower.pdf |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2007-09-21 14:11:15
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* Norbert Gruener <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> [2007-09-20]: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a working example of "Automatic advancing of pages" > as described in the "TeXPower bundle" documentation under section 4.2. > > All examples for "automatic advancing" included within the TeXPower > distribution (version 0.2) are not working under my Acrobat Reader > (version 8.1.1). My OS is Linux, Kernel 2.4.27. I am using acroread > in "full screen" mode but nothing happens. I have to step each page > manually. > > Is it a problem of my Acrobat Reader or I am doing something complete > wrong? Sorry for the late reply. Since you don't post a minimal example, I can't possibly say if you do something wrong or not :-) I just tested http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/divexample.pdf and it works in Adobe Reader (AR) 8.1 on Windows - view full screen and go to the second page. Does that file work for you? If not, have you read section 3.8 - "Set acrobat reader's automatic page advancing feature" - on page 68-69 of the implementation docs[1]? That text is quite old, but it might be relevant for your new AR too - automatic page advancing has been buggy in AR all the time. Regards, Hans [1] http://texpower.sourceforge.net/doc/texpower.pdf |
From: Norbert G. <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.DE> - 2007-09-20 13:19:38
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Hi all, I am looking for a working example of "Automatic advancing of pages" as described in the "TeXPower bundle" documentation under section 4.2. All examples for "automatic advancing" included within the TeXPower distribution (version 0.2) are not working under my Acrobat Reader (version 8.1.1). My OS is Linux, Kernel 2.4.27. I am using acroread in "full screen" mode but nothing happens. I have to step each page manually. Is it a problem of my Acrobat Reader or I am doing something complete wrong? Thank you in advance, Norbert -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norbert E. Gruener http://www.MPA-Garching.MPG.de/~nog/ | | Max-Planck-Institut <nog@MPA-Garching.MPG.de> | | fuer Astrophysik PGP encrypted mail preferred | | PGPprint(RSA): 66 64 C0 D0 6F 1A 16 02 C2 C6 37 83 3A 5F 88 9B | | PGPprint(DH): 8B9A CB28 79DC 4C4F 5A0F 08A8 2771 2A99 A091 FBE8 | | PGPprint(DSS): 8900 2CB4 F3D3 124F 7ED2 F681 EA2D 11CA BE19 6642 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |
From: Roland S. <ro...@rz...> - 2007-07-23 11:38:44
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Hallo Baburaj, On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, you wrote: > I have the following header for a ifmslide-texpower presentation > Whatever I type in the date line, the date displayed in the dvi file is > July 23 2007 and not what I set. Could anybody please tell me where to > change the date? I think, the problem is with 'ifmslide'. For the footline (containing the date) it uses \today instead of \@date, and only the latter is set with the macro \date. Therefore, the solution to your problem is to redefine \today instead of setting \date: \def\today{July 26 2007} should do the job. Good luck, Roland +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Roland Schilling Home-Office: +49(89)32929-670 | | Max-Planck-Institut f=FCr Gravitationsphysik | | -- Albert-Einstein-Institut -- | | D-85748 Garching E-mail: ro...@rz... | | Germany http://www.geo600.uni-hannover.de | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html |
From: A.P.Baburaj <ap...@ii...> - 2007-07-23 08:54:08
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Dear All: I have the following header for a ifmslide-texpower presentation Whatever I type in the date line, the date displayed in the dvi file is July 23 2007 and not what I set. Could anybody please tell me where to change the date? Thanks a lot Baburaj \documentclass[KOMA,landscape,display]{powersem} \usepackage[display,stmo,button]{ifmslide} \usepackage{soul} \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage{subfigure} \usepackage{psfrag} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amscd} \usepackage{amstext} \newcommand{\result}{\color{section4}$\Rightarrow$} %% user definitions \hypersetup{pdfauthor={Baburaj A Puthenveettil}} \hypersetup{pdftitle={Legi talk}} \hypersetup{pdfsubject={High Rayleigh number convection driven by concentration differences}} \definecolor{background}{rgb}{1,1,1} \definecolor{light}{gray}{0.8} \makeatletter \renewcommand\subsection{\@startsection{subsection}{2}{\z@}% {-3.25ex\@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}% {1.25ex \@plus .2ex}% {\Large\bfseries\color{section1}}} \makeatother %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\usepackage{thumbpdf} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \slidepagestyle{empty} \pagecounter[off] %\paneltile[on](0,160,200,200){aqua_ravines} %\paneltile[off](,,,){} \panellogo{c:/raj/legi/indexiitlogo.eps} \releaselogo \freelogo(250,165)[2cm] \panelposition{empty} \orgname {\small\textsf{Fluid Mechanics Lab,\\ Dept. of Applied Mechanics,\\ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.}} \title{\begin{minipage}[t]{0.98\textwidth}\begin{center} High Rayleigh number convection driven by concentration differences \end{center}\end{minipage}} \author{ \begin{minipage}[t]{0.98\textwidth}\begin{center}\textsf{Baburaj A. Puthenveettil} \end{center}\end{minipage}} \date{July 26 2007} \begin{document} \pageTransitionDissolve \sffamily %\nobuttons %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{slide} \maketitle \end{slide} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \pageTransitionReplace \paneltile[off](,,,){} -- A.P.Baburaj, FMB207,Fluid Mechanics Lab, Dept. of Applied Mechanics,IIT Madras, Chennai 600036. Ph:22574065 http://apm.iitm.ac.in/fmlab/raj/index.html |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2006-01-19 06:23:42
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* Hans F. Nordhaug <Han...@hi...> [2006-01-03]: > * Olumide <50...@we...> [2005-12-29]: > > Hi - > > > > I'm trying to produce slide pages that involve a mix of text and > > graphics that appear in a stepwise fashion (for which I'm using the > > \stepwise and \step commands in the Texpower bundle . My graphics are > > done with PSTricks). > > > > The problem is that I'm getting the wrong images on subsequent > > pages.Because the problem is hard problem to explain, I'm including a > > bit of code (below) illustrating the problem. The code is supposed to > > produce a 3 page slide with 3 steps on pages 1 and 2. Page 1 contains a > > square, page 2, contains a circle, and page 3 contains a diamond shape. > > However when the slide (PDF) is generated, I get the circle appear on > > all 3 pages (by pages I mean slide pages includeing the steps). I'm not > > really sure if this problem is due to PS/PDF Tricks or the Texpower package. > > > > I suspect Texpower is the culprit, cos the FILENAME-pics.pdf file > > generated by pst-pdf(?) contains 4 copies of the square (page 1), 4 > > copies of the circle (page 2), and 1 copy of the diamond (page 3). I'm > > assuming this is the right thing to do. > [cut] > > OK, I have looked at your example and there is a bug in TeXPower. It > is actually best demonstrated if you remove the "display" option of > TeXPower - you get a normal non-dynamic PDF. However, still > FILENAME-pics.pdf contains 5 pages but only 3 pages are requested. > Probably a counter (used by pst-pdf) needs to be protected. I'll look more > into it tomorrow and hopefully have a fix then. Thanks for the report. Just to give an update (to the list): The problem is that both pst-pdf and texpower is messing with LaTeX's output routine. The things they do aren't compatible. Current conclusion: The packages can't be used together. (Using pstricks without pst-pdf is of course fine as it always has been.) Regards, Hans |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2006-01-03 14:05:39
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* Olumide <50...@we...> [2005-12-29]: > Hi - > > I'm trying to produce slide pages that involve a mix of text and > graphics that appear in a stepwise fashion (for which I'm using the > \stepwise and \step commands in the Texpower bundle . My graphics are > done with PSTricks). > > The problem is that I'm getting the wrong images on subsequent > pages.Because the problem is hard problem to explain, I'm including a > bit of code (below) illustrating the problem. The code is supposed to > produce a 3 page slide with 3 steps on pages 1 and 2. Page 1 contains a > square, page 2, contains a circle, and page 3 contains a diamond shape. > However when the slide (PDF) is generated, I get the circle appear on > all 3 pages (by pages I mean slide pages includeing the steps). I'm not > really sure if this problem is due to PS/PDF Tricks or the Texpower package. > > I suspect Texpower is the culprit, cos the FILENAME-pics.pdf file > generated by pst-pdf(?) contains 4 copies of the square (page 1), 4 > copies of the circle (page 2), and 1 copy of the diamond (page 3). I'm > assuming this is the right thing to do. [cut] OK, I have looked at your example and there is a bug in TeXPower. It is actually best demonstrated if you remove the "display" option of TeXPower - you get a normal non-dynamic PDF. However, still FILENAME-pics.pdf contains 5 pages but only 3 pages are requested. Probably a counter (used by pst-pdf) needs to be protected. I'll look more into it tomorrow and hopefully have a fix then. Thanks for the report. Regards, Hans |
From: Olumide <50...@we...> - 2005-12-29 17:59:46
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Hi - I'm trying to produce slide pages that involve a mix of text and graphics that appear in a stepwise fashion (for which I'm using the \stepwise and \step commands in the Texpower bundle . My graphics are done with PSTricks). The problem is that I'm getting the wrong images on subsequent pages.Because the problem is hard problem to explain, I'm including a bit of code (below) illustrating the problem. The code is supposed to produce a 3 page slide with 3 steps on pages 1 and 2. Page 1 contains a square, page 2, contains a circle, and page 3 contains a diamond shape. However when the slide (PDF) is generated, I get the circle appear on all 3 pages (by pages I mean slide pages includeing the steps). I'm not really sure if this problem is due to PS/PDF Tricks or the Texpower package. I suspect Texpower is the culprit, cos the FILENAME-pics.pdf file generated by pst-pdf(?) contains 4 copies of the square (page 1), 4 copies of the circle (page 2), and 1 copy of the diamond (page 3). I'm assuming this is the right thing to do. Alright, enough talk, here's the code (please bear in mind that I'm no pro by any measure, and as such I tend to do things in a noob-ish sort of way). Thanks, - Olumide PS: Already posted on comp.text.tex but got no replies %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% code %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \documentclass[a4paper, english, landscape]{foils} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{pstricks} \usepackage{pst-pdf} \usepackage[display]{texpower} \begin{document} \foilhead{Page 1} \pause \begin{center} \stepwise{ \begin{tabular}{cl} \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(4.1, 6.2) \psframe(1,2.5)(4,6) \end{pspicture} & \raisebox{6cm}{ \begin{minipage}[t]{8cm} \begin{itemize} \item This is line number 1 \step{ \item This is line number 2 } \step{ \item This is line number 3 } \end{itemize} \end{minipage} } \\ \end{tabular} } \end{center} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \foilhead{Page 2} \pause \begin{center} \stepwise{ \begin{tabular}{cl} \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(4.1, 6.2) \rput(2,3){\pscircle[fillcolor=gray, fillstyle=solid]{1.0}} \end{pspicture} & \raisebox{6cm}{ \begin{minipage}[t]{8cm} \begin{itemize} \item This is line A \step{ \item This is line B } \step{ \item This is line C } \end{itemize} \end{minipage} } \\ \end{tabular} } \end{center} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \foilhead{Page 3} \pause Text \begin{center} \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(4.1, 6.2) \psdiamond(2,3)(1.5,1.5) \end{pspicture} \end{center} \end{document} |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-10-14 08:11:17
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* Jobst Hoffmann <J.H...@fh...> [2005-10-06]: > Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 20:52 +0200 schrieb Hans F. Nordhaug: > > * Jobst Hoffmann <J.H...@fh...> [2005-10-03]: [cut] > > > 2) (La)TeXing the file produces a .dvi-file, which can be perfectly > > > viewed by xdvi or so. Postprocessing this .dvi-file leads to a .ps-file, > > > which is upside down oriented; if I start my viewer I have to turn the > > > view accordingly. > > > > > > Is there any method to avoid this behaviour? > > > > Yes, probably but it's not a texpower/powersem issue. This is a > > feature of seminar. (I don't recommend using seminar, and hence not > > powersem either...) > > But what do you recommend instead? Any modern presentation package. I use foils just because it's very simple and robust. However, state of the art is powerdot (which was created because prosper, which was based on seminar, was impossible to make robust/improve) or beamer. (Both beamer and powerdot supports there own stepwise display making texpower more or less unnecessary - I haven't tested.) > > > 3) In the example file there are 7 step commands producing with the > > > introducing text 8 steps, but step no. 7 and 8 give no new contents. I > > > forced producing only 6 steps by setting the counter totalsteps to 6, > > > which gives the right result. > > > > > > Is there a better method to produce no redundant steps? > > > > Use \restep in stead of \step. In your case I just replaced the last > > \step with \restep and got the wanted behaviour. > > > > > By the way, I think there should be a hint in the docs about producing > > > and avoiding such redundant steps > > > > Yes, maybe we should put more on the \rexxx functions (where "xxx" > > can be "step", "switch" and so on). > I beg for that, I still have problems with \restep as it doesn't do > always what I'm exspecting. The \rexxx functions are very simple in nature. They just add a step without incrementing the step counter. However, predicting the effect is sometimes very hard. I can ensure you that the result is correct, but I agree that it some times is counter-intuitive. (I didn't write or design the stepwise environment and it's functions, so don't blame me or give me any credit - it's all Stephan Lehmke's work.) Regards, Hans |
From: Jobst H. <J.H...@fh...> - 2005-10-06 19:38:21
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Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 20:52 +0200 schrieb Hans F. Nordhaug: > * Jobst Hoffmann <J.H...@fh...> [2005-10-03]: > > Dear Hans, > > > > I include a small LaTeX-file, which produces nearly the right results > > for me. > > Almost correct isn't good enough :-) By the way, sorry for the late > reply. I agree completely > > > But I've got three questions: > > 1) the texpower documentation says that hyperref can produce spurious > > vertical space, therefor the package fixseminar should be loaded after > > hyperref. > > > > I've done so, but I still find the spurious space; what else can I do? > > Use \parstepwise in stead \stepwise - this is a FAQ (but I'm not sure > if I actually have included it in the FAQ document). I've associated wobbling with fixseminar and not with with parstepwise, it's my fault, sorry! > > > 2) (La)TeXing the file produces a .dvi-file, which can be perfectly > > viewed by xdvi or so. Postprocessing this .dvi-file leads to a .ps-file, > > which is upside down oriented; if I start my viewer I have to turn the > > view accordingly. > > > > Is there any method to avoid this behaviour? > > Yes, probably but it's not a texpower/powersem issue. This is a > feature of seminar. (I don't recommend using seminar, and hence not > powersem either...) But what do you recommend instead? > > > 3) In the example file there are 7 step commands producing with the > > introducing text 8 steps, but step no. 7 and 8 give no new contents. I > > forced producing only 6 steps by setting the counter totalsteps to 6, > > which gives the right result. > > > > Is there a better method to produce no redundant steps? > > Use \restep in stead of \step. In your case I just replaced the last > \step with \restep and got the wanted behaviour. > > > By the way, I think there should be a hint in the docs about producing > > and avoiding such redundant steps > > Yes, maybe we should put more on the \rexxx functions (where "xxx" > can be "step", "switch" and so on). I beg for that, I still have problems with \restep as it doesn't do always what I'm exspecting. > > > Happy TeXing > > Same to you > > Hans > Thank you for your efforts Jobst -- Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann Tel: (0049)-2461-99-3159 Fachhochschule Aachen Abt. Jlich Fax: (0049)-2461-99-3189 Fachbereich 3 email: j.h...@fh... |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-10-04 18:52:33
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* Jobst Hoffmann <J.H...@fh...> [2005-10-03]: > Dear Hans, > > I include a small LaTeX-file, which produces nearly the right results > for me. Almost correct isn't good enough :-) By the way, sorry for the late reply. > But I've got three questions: > 1) the texpower documentation says that hyperref can produce spurious > vertical space, therefor the package fixseminar should be loaded after > hyperref. > > I've done so, but I still find the spurious space; what else can I do? Use \parstepwise in stead \stepwise - this is a FAQ (but I'm not sure if I actually have included it in the FAQ document). > 2) (La)TeXing the file produces a .dvi-file, which can be perfectly > viewed by xdvi or so. Postprocessing this .dvi-file leads to a .ps-file, > which is upside down oriented; if I start my viewer I have to turn the > view accordingly. > > Is there any method to avoid this behaviour? Yes, probably but it's not a texpower/powersem issue. This is a feature of seminar. (I don't recommend using seminar, and hence not powersem either...) > 3) In the example file there are 7 step commands producing with the > introducing text 8 steps, but step no. 7 and 8 give no new contents. I > forced producing only 6 steps by setting the counter totalsteps to 6, > which gives the right result. > > Is there a better method to produce no redundant steps? Use \restep in stead of \step. In your case I just replaced the last \step with \restep and got the wanted behaviour. > By the way, I think there should be a hint in the docs about producing > and avoiding such redundant steps Yes, maybe we should put more on the \rexxx functions (where "xxx" can be "step", "switch" and so on). > Happy TeXing Same to you Hans -- Associate professor Hans F. Nordhaug Department of Informatics, Molde University College <http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/english.php> |
From: Jobst H. <J.H...@fh...> - 2005-10-03 21:18:34
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Dear Hans, I include a small LaTeX-file, which produces nearly the right results for me. But I've got three questions: 1) the texpower documentation says that hyperref can produce spurious vertical space, therefor the package fixseminar should be loaded after hyperref. I've done so, but I still find the spurious space; what else can I do? 2) (La)TeXing the file produces a .dvi-file, which can be perfectly viewed by xdvi or so. Postprocessing this .dvi-file leads to a .ps-file, which is upside down oriented; if I start my viewer I have to turn the view accordingly. Is there any method to avoid this behaviour? 3) In the example file there are 7 step commands producing with the introducing text 8 steps, but step no. 7 and 8 give no new contents. I forced producing only 6 steps by setting the counter totalsteps to 6, which gives the right result. Is there a better method to produce no redundant steps? By the way, I think there should be a hint in the docs about producing and avoiding such redundant steps Happy TeXing Jobst -- Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann Tel: (0049)-2461-99-3159 Fachhochschule Aachen Abt. Jlich Fax: (0049)-2461-99-3189 Fachbereich 3 email: j.h...@fh... |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-04-12 08:28:40
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Dear list, just in case you have missed the release info: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=60743&release_id=319008 Best regards, Hans |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-04-08 23:04:34
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Finally - version 0.2 of TeXPower, released today, supports (hyper)links to subpages without any hassle and exact label-ref to subpages. (The only thing that might be missing is that the TOC still points to the last subpage of each "physical" page.) The hack below shouldn't be necessary anymore. Best regards, Hans On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:19:11AM +0100, Andreas Matthias wrote: > Hans Fredrik Nordhaug wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Andreas Matthias wrote: > > > > ---- > > \documentclass[a4paper]{article} > > \usepackage[display]{texpower} > > \usepackage{count1to} > > \def\abspage{\the\count1} > > > > \makeatletter > > \newcount\foobar > > \def\WriteLabel{% > > \protected@write\@auxout{\let\abspage\relax} > > {\string\newlabel{foobar\the\foobar}{{}{\abspage}}}% > > \global\advance\foobar\@ne > > } > > \renewcommand{\do@insert@firstanchor@TP}{\SetLabel} > > \renewcommand{\dont@insert@firstanchor@TP}{\SetLabel} > > \def\AddLabel{\global\let\SetLabel\WriteLabel\AtShipout{\KillLabel}} > > \def\KillLabel{\global\let\SetLabel\relax} > > \def\StepLabel{\ifthenelse{\boolean{firstactivation}}{\AddLabel}{}} > > \makeatother > > > > \KillLabel > > > > \begin{document} > > \Huge testing > > \stepwise{% > > \step{foo}% > > \step{bar}% > > \step{baz\StepLabel}% > > } > > Bla-bla > > \newpage > > foobar > > \pause > > foobar again \AddLabel > > \pause > > foobar again again > > \end{document} > > ---- > > > > What do you think - slightly better? > > Yes, that's it. And after some stupid problems -- I then used > \newcounter instead of \newcount and forgot about \releasecounter -- > I even got it working in my other documents and pdfpages, too. > I am happy now! > > > You use \StepLabel inside steps and \AddLabel elsewhere. > > I added one more indirection, so that one does not have to > distinguish between \AddLabel and \StepLabel: > > \def\@AddLabel{\global\let\SetLabel\WriteLabel\AtShipout{\KillLabel}} > \def\KillLabel{\global\let\SetLabel\relax} > \def\AddLabel{% > \ifthenelse{\boolean{instepwise@TP}} > {\ifthenelse{\boolean{firstactivation}}{\@AddLabel}{}} > {\@AddLabel}} > > Now \AddLabel is working within and outside of \stepwise. > > Thank you very much for your help. I appreciate it. > > Ciao > Andreas |
From: Jobst H. <J.H...@fh...> - 2005-04-01 08:13:33
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Am Freitag, den 25.03.2005, 23:52 +0100 schrieb Hans F. Nordhaug: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:49:55PM +0100, Jobst Hoffmann wrote: > > Dear Hans, > > > > thank you for your answer. > > > The benefit of using tplists is that you don't have to surround the > > > environment with \stepwise. tplists.sty defines step/dim/flip > > > enviroments for several standard env - like itemize, enumerate and so > > > on. (Read the header of the file.) Should I also include the same for > > > the description environment in the next release of TeXPower? > > > > > > Sorry for the late replay. > > > > > > Hans - wishing everyone on the list a Happy Easter! > > > > > I hadn't have time to test your proposals, but in the meantime I started > > to work with tplists.sty. I'm missing step/dim/flip description, so I'd > > be glad, if you would enclose it in the next release of TeXPower. > > > > I have two remarks: > > 1) in the current version the environment ends up with a \step{}. If the > > environment is enclosed by text, it's o.k for me, but if the environment > > is the only thing on a slide, then I have to enter an unnecessary key > > stroke to get the next slide; making the \step{} optional I could easily > > choose the behaviour. > > Good point - I'll make a switch for turning off the last (and first) > step selectively. (There'll be a new release of TeXPower before May - > I promise - which should include this switch for tplists. When I first > add such a setup is there any thing else that should be easily > changable through a switch (for tplists)?) > > > 2) some time ago I asked you for a method, to print dimmed text > > undimmed. This method works fine for me, but working with an environment > > like step/... I don't know how get the same result. So it would be nice, > > the have a flag or so to get rid off the dimmed colors for printing the > > slides. > > I'm sorry, but I don't follow and I don't have time to track down what > I have posted to you/the mailing list earlier. Could you post an > example (containing my method that worked so I can adapt it to the > new situation). > The complete code is as follows: ----- 8< ------------------------------begin snip----------------------- \def\mystepF% Note that \mystep takes no argument. It just changes the way % the next item is displayed. {% \usecolorset{stwcolors}% Restore the undimmed colors valid % at the beginning of \stepwise. \dstep[][\boolean{firstactivation}]% \dstep switches colors. The % optional argument makes it appear only once. }% \def\mystepP% Note that \mystep takes no argument. It just changes the way % the next item is displayed. {% \usecolorset{stwcolors}% Restore the undimmed colors valid % at the beginning of \stepwise. % For printing we don't need dimmed colors }% \ifhandout% \let\mystep=\mystepP \else \let\mystep=\mystepF \fi % We define a custom itemize environment which automatically adds calls to % \mystep: \newenvironment{stepitemize} {% \begin{itemize} \let\origitem=\item % Here, the \mystep command is hidden % inside \item \renewcommand{\item}{\mystep\origitem}% } {% \end{itemize} } ----- 8< ------------------------------end snip------------------------ \mystepF and \mystepP provide two ways of displaying text: \mystepP for completely undimmed text, \mystepF for my preferred way of displaying text in presentations. The flag \ifhandout sets the right way up for the following environments, here stepitemize. I hope, this could help you to the further improvement of TeXpower > Regards, > Hans > Regards, Jobst -- Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann Tel: (0049)-2461-99-3159 Fachhochschule Aachen Abt. Jlich Fax: (0049)-2461-99-3189 Fachbereich 3 email: j.h...@fh... |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-03-25 22:52:45
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:49:55PM +0100, Jobst Hoffmann wrote: > Dear Hans, > > thank you for your answer. > > The benefit of using tplists is that you don't have to surround the > > environment with \stepwise. tplists.sty defines step/dim/flip > > enviroments for several standard env - like itemize, enumerate and so > > on. (Read the header of the file.) Should I also include the same for > > the description environment in the next release of TeXPower? > > > > Sorry for the late replay. > > > > Hans - wishing everyone on the list a Happy Easter! > > > I hadn't have time to test your proposals, but in the meantime I started > to work with tplists.sty. I'm missing step/dim/flip description, so I'd > be glad, if you would enclose it in the next release of TeXPower. > > I have two remarks: > 1) in the current version the environment ends up with a \step{}. If the > environment is enclosed by text, it's o.k for me, but if the environment > is the only thing on a slide, then I have to enter an unnecessary key > stroke to get the next slide; making the \step{} optional I could easily > choose the behaviour. Good point - I'll make a switch for turning off the last (and first) step selectively. (There'll be a new release of TeXPower before May - I promise - which should include this switch for tplists. When I first add such a setup is there any thing else that should be easily changable through a switch (for tplists)?) > 2) some time ago I asked you for a method, to print dimmed text > undimmed. This method works fine for me, but working with an environment > like step/... I don't know how get the same result. So it would be nice, > the have a flag or so to get rid off the dimmed colors for printing the > slides. I'm sorry, but I don't follow and I don't have time to track down what I have posted to you/the mailing list earlier. Could you post an example (containing my method that worked so I can adapt it to the new situation). Regards, Hans -- Associate professor Hans F. Nordhaug Department of Informatics, Molde University College <http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/english.php> |
From: Jobst H. <J.H...@fh...> - 2005-03-25 15:50:09
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Dear Hans, thank you for your answer. > The benefit of using tplists is that you don't have to surround the > environment with \stepwise. tplists.sty defines step/dim/flip > enviroments for several standard env - like itemize, enumerate and so > on. (Read the header of the file.) Should I also include the same for > the description environment in the next release of TeXPower? > > Sorry for the late replay. > > Hans - wishing everyone on the list a Happy Easter! > I hadn't have time to test your proposals, but in the meantime I started to work with tplists.sty. I'm missing step/dim/flip description, so I'd be glad, if you would enclose it in the next release of TeXPower. I have two remarks: 1) in the current version the environment ends up with a \step{}. If the environment is enclosed by text, it's o.k for me, but if the environment is the only thing on a slide, then I have to enter an unnecessary key stroke to get the next slide; making the \step{} optional I could easily choose the behaviour. 2) some time ago I asked you for a method, to print dimmed text undimmed. This method works fine for me, but working with an environment like step/... I don't know how get the same result. So it would be nice, the have a flag or so to get rid off the dimmed colors for printing the slides. Happy Easter and happy TeXPowering! Jobst -- Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann Tel: (0049)-2461-99-3159 Fachhochschule Aachen Abt. Jlich Fax: (0049)-2461-99-3189 Fachbereich 3 email: j.h...@fh... |
From: Hans F. N. <Han...@hi...> - 2005-03-22 08:07:46
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:57:17PM +0100, Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann wrote: > Dear texpower-users, [cut] > to get a dimmed list with highlighted items. Now I wanted to do the same > trick for a stepdescription-environment. [cut] > Every thing works fine, but the contents of the brackets - the arguments > of item - come out all on the same place near of the slide's bottom. Is > there anybody with a hint? The problem is how you define \mystep - which you didn't include. I have two solutions: 1) Straight forward - by using the "\NOT" line you get the opposite. ---- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[lightbackground,display]{texpower} \def\mystep{\usecolorset{stwcolors}% \dstep[][\boolean{firstactivation}]% % \dstep[][\NOT\boolean{firstactivation}]% }% \newenvironment{stepdescription}{% \begin{description} \let\origitem=\item \renewcommand{\item}{\mystep\origitem}% }{\end{description}} \begin{document} \stepwise*{ \begin{stepdescription} \item[Something] some \item[Another thing] another \item[Yet another thing] yet another \end{stepdescription} } \end{document} ---- 2) Using functions from tplists.sty (which is part of texpower) ---- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[lightbackground,display]{texpower} \usepackage{tplists} \makeatletter \newenvironment{flipdescription}{% \tpl@collect@body\@flipdescription% }{\global\@ignoretrue} \newcommand\@flipdescription[1]{% \@fliplist{description}{#1}} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{flipdescription} \item[Something] some \item[Another thing] another \item[Yet another thing] yet another \end{flipdescription} \end{document} ---- The benefit of using tplists is that you don't have to surround the environment with \stepwise. tplists.sty defines step/dim/flip enviroments for several standard env - like itemize, enumerate and so on. (Read the header of the file.) Should I also include the same for the description environment in the next release of TeXPower? Sorry for the late replay. Hans - wishing everyone on the list a Happy Easter! -- Associate professor Hans F. Nordhaug Department of Informatics, Molde University College <http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/english.php> |