----- Forwarded message from Till Tantau ----- I have put new versions of beamer and pgf on ftp.dante.de:/incoming.

Announcement:

This is version 3.00 of beamer, a class for creating presentations using latex. To use it, you also need

- pgf version >=0.63, - xcolor version >=2.00

To install the class follow the instructions in doc/beameruserguide.pdf.

This is a major update of beamer, containing many changes, most having to do with a new theme management. Old presentations should still compile without errors, but some slight color and spacing changes may occur, however.

The update from pgf 0.63 to 0.64 is just a minor bugfix and not needed to use the new beamer version.

Here are the changelogs:

Beamer version 3.00: Themes: - Completely new theme management. - Lot's of new variations of themes. - Font/element/layout/color themes are orthogonal and can be freely combined. - Old themes obsolete, but supported for compatibility. - Original default theme is now in beamerthemecompatibility.sty. New default is more minimalistic.

+ Presentation themes: - There are now 24 ready-to-use presentation themes. - Manuel Carro has send me a theme that I slightly adapted and added as the Madrid theme.

+ Layout and element Themes: - There are 9 different layouts themes, including three new ones that were not available in the previous version. - There are 4 different element themes (which dictate things like how items are typeset).

+ Color themes: - There are 10 color themes, including a yellow-on-blue theme. - The seahorse and rose theme allow you to change the colors of headlines and footlines easily to much less aggressive versions. - You can now dictate the color of every minute detail of a presentation individually, (including math!).

+ Font themes: - 6 font themes. Change the fonts of titles to, say, small caps just by using the smallcaps theme; no need to meddle with templates. - Just like colors, you can individually change all fonts in minute detail without touching any templates.

Documentation: - Split documentation into multiple files. - Reorganized and reworked large parts of the documention. - Added a small tutorial to help new users. - Extracted all guidelines and recommendations and put them in a guidelines section. Also added lots of guidelines on fonts. - Added an index (though it's pretty poor, still).

Solutions: - Added a solutions directory. It contains ready-to-use solutions for common problems (like a template for a conference talk). - Help appreciated (see the documentation).

Added: - Added frame environment (finally!). - Added the dot notation to overlay specifications. If a dot is used instead of a plus, the beamerpauses counter is not incremented. - Added xmpmulti.sty. Very useful for including Multi Metapost graphics. - Added some functionality to onslide to get it more in sync with ha-prosper. - Made eamerdefaultoverlayspecification work also outside frames. - Added new version of beamer.el by Thomas Baumann. - footnote now takes an overlay specification. - Added beamercolorbox environment. - Characters like : may now be active (nice for french style). Only exceptions are < and >. - Added a note on how to use msc.sty with beamer. - TOCs in sidebar will now do line breaking (finally!). - Powerful object-oriented new font management. - Powerful object-oriented new color management. - ableofcontents now has more options for showing/not showing entries. - Same is true for the toc in sidebars. - Added keywords command (like subject). - Added a patch to make beamer work together with musixtex. pause will be redeclared inside music environments. - Added insert's for inserting the start and end pages of the current frame, subsection, section, part, presentation, appendix.

Changed: - Reordered directories. - beamerboxesrounded now works differently. color schemes no longer needed. - Option class=xxxx onsolete. Use document class xxxx directly instead and load new style beamerarticle. - Cleaned up lot's of internals. - Slight changes to vertical spacing. - slidestop is now called t and slidescentered is called c. - eamersetleftmargin and eamersetrightmargin obsolete. Use setbeamersize instead. - Old themes are now mapped to new internal mechanisms. Slight color and vertical spacing changes may occur. Bugfixes: - Fixed incompatibility with czech.sty. - Fixed some spacing problems with label. - Fixed bug that could cause endless loop if more than two pages resulted from an allowframebreaks. - Fixed bug that caused incorrect counter resets in conjunction with allowframebreaks. - Fixed bug that caused footnotes of suppressed frames to spill over to the next frame. - Fixed bug with AtBeginSection + lecture + mode* - Fixed label bug in article mode in conjunction with amstex - Fixed spacing problems when pause is used in equations - Fixed spacing problem with slides that start with an itemize. - Fixed color problem in itemize in conjunction with evil use of everymath. - Fixed failure of action environment in handout and trans modes. - Fixed bug with shrink + t options. - Fixed lot's of other small things. - Fixed problem with displayed math formulas are message improper halign... - Fixed wrong positioning of mini frames on notes pages. - Fixed bugs in outer theme miniframes. - Fixed foreground coloring problem in beamerboxesrounded. - Fixed alert in article mode problem. - Fixed emporal problem. - Fixed vertical mode after item problem. - Applied patch with typo fixed submitted by Ohura Makoto. - Fixed warnings concerning it/sl substitution for cmss. - Renamed ternary to tertiary and fourth to quaternary. - Changed parent of color frametitle to titlelike. - Fixed problem with ote in lectures that are excluded.

pgf version 0.64: - Fixed missing depth of pgfnodebox. - Fixed bug that caused infinite stack loop with pictures inside nodes. ----- End forwarded message -----

Thanks for the uploads. I installed them as suggested replacing the old versions in CTAN:graphics/pgf/ and CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/beamer/

Reinhard Zierke for the CTAN team