logcreative/presenter

A LaTeX presentation framework with seamless migration

presenter

A LaTeX presentation framework with seamless migration

presenter is a package to create presentations from regular LaTeX documents without many modifications, which could be natively run by any latest TeX distributions.

presenter won't need any additional frame or slide environment to split different pages, but uses the original sectioning commands as the natural way to split different points.

Demo

-\documentclass{article}
+\documentclass{presenter}
\begin{document}
\section{Get Started}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

\documentclass{presenter}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\LoadPresenterBackground{block}
\EditPresenterBackground{headline}{fill-color=blue!70!green}
\EditPresenterForeground{headline}{style={\Large\color{white}}}
\begin{document}

\paragraph{Some text}

This is the content of this page.

\end{document}

License

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".

The Current Maintainer of this work is Log Creative.

presenter's Issues

Sectioning number decision algorithm

There are two ideas about the sectioning algorithm:

1. Section numbering is decided in \@sect. This is implemented in 672b4e3 . This will automatically redirect the mark to print the regular sectioning content, but violets the original definition about marks. Since \@sect is defined outside the page style, which could not be regained the definition when switching the page style. But further customization will be harder. In this way, the predefined marks could get discarded and use templates instead.
2. Section numbering decision is delayed until marking. This is implemented in b57bbd2 . This will not violate the original definition about marks. I don't know if it is necessary to maintain the definition of marks and how many packages use this definition. This could make use of the current marks.

These two ideas will result in different approaches to implement headlines.

1. Section numbering is decided in \@sect. This will require the dual and cascade headline/sectioning template to get a parameter like priority sequence {part, section, subsection, subsubsection, paragraph, subparagraph} to determine the order of those sectioning commands.
2. Section numbering decision is delayed until marking. This will define a global level in this document class. The template only needs to get a parameter indicating the top level to trace the sectioning. Of course, this will make the code less decoupled.