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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: lecturer Author's name: Paul Isambert Location on CTAN: macros/generic Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for (almost) all formats. License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by step.
Features include:
- Free positioning of anything anywhere in painted areas on the slide, as well as in the main textblock.
- Numerous attributes to control the layout and the presentation flow, from TeX's primitive dimensions to the visibility of steps.
- Feature inheritance from global to local settings, with intermediate types.
- Basic drawing facilities to produce symbols, e.g. for list items or buttons.
- Colors, transparency, shades, and pictures.
- Navigation with links, pop-up menus, and customizable bookmarks.
- Easy switch between presentation and handout.
- PDF transitions.
Besides the traditional documentation, the distribution includes a visual doc (LecturerDemo-VisualDoc.pdf) and six demo presentations ranging from geometric abstraction to classic style to silly video game.
Lecturer is designed for all formats except ConTeXt MkIV (because of clashes in management of PDF objects, probably), works only with pdfTeX and LuaTeX for the time being, and requires texapi and yax, both v.1.02.
thanks for the upload; i have installed it, and created a catalogue entry for it.
Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lecturer.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/lecturer/
of course, the catalogue entry won't appear on the web until some time tonight.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team