\textclass seminar
\begin_preamble
\renewcommand{\printlandscape}{\special{landscape}}
+
+% if slides come out in the viewer upside down, try:
%\sliderotation{right}
+
+%\AtBeginDocument{%
+% \pdfpageheight = \paperheight
+% \pdfpagewidth = \paperwidth
+%}
\end_preamble
-\options a4paper, semrot, slidesec
-\use_default_options false
+\use_default_options true
\maintain_unincluded_children false
\language english
\language_package default
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
-\graphics dvips
-\default_output_format default
+\graphics default
+\default_output_format pdf
\output_sync 0
\bibtex_command default
\index_command default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
-\use_hyperref false
-\papersize default
+\use_hyperref true
+\pdf_bookmarks true
+\pdf_bookmarksnumbered false
+\pdf_bookmarksopen false
+\pdf_bookmarksopenlevel 1
+\pdf_breaklinks false
+\pdf_pdfborder true
+\pdf_colorlinks true
+\pdf_backref false
+\pdf_pdfusetitle true
+\papersize a4paper
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
-\begin_inset Note Note
+\begin_inset Flex LandscapeSlide
status open
-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-
-\series bold
-Note:
-\series default
- It turned out that the method
+\begin_layout Title
+Slides and Notes with the
\family sans
-PDF (dvipdfm)
+\noun on
+Seminar
\family default
- works on all LaTeX systems as expected when viewing/exporting this file
- as PDF.
- Viewing and exporting seminar documents to DVI and PS can result in an
- unwanted output, depending on your LaTeX system and the DVI or PostScript
- viewer.
+\noun default
+ class
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_layout Author
+Günter Milde
+\end_layout
-\series bold
-Note:
-\series default
- The
-\family sans
-seminar
-\family default
- class is designed to produce transparencies, not powerpoint-like presentations.
- For such presentations, use a presentation document class like
-\family sans
- beamer
-\family default
- or
-\family sans
- powerdot
-\family default
-.
+\begin_layout Date
+10/10/2010
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
-
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_deeper
-\begin_layout SlideHeading
-Slides and Notes with the
-\family sans
-\noun on
-Seminar
-\family default
-\noun default
- class
-\begin_inset Note Note
-status open
-
-\begin_layout Plain Layout
-written by Günter Milde
-\end_layout
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset CommandInset toc
+LatexCommand tableofcontents
\end_inset
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Author
-Harry Testman
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Date
-10/10/2010
+\begin_layout Section
+Basics
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex LandscapeSlide
+status open
+\begin_layout SlideHeading
+Seminar
\end_layout
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
+\begin_layout Itemize
+The
+\begin_inset CommandInset href
+LatexCommand href
+name "seminar"
+target "http://www.ctan.org/pkg/seminar"
-\end_layout
+\end_inset
-\begin_deeper
-\begin_layout SlideHeading
-Some basic points to start with:
+ class is designed to produce overhead slides (transparencies).
+ For powerpoint-like presentations, use a
+\emph on
+presentation
+\emph default
+ document class like
+\family sans
+ beamer
+\family default
+ or
+\family sans
+ powerdot
+\family default
+.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
-Start a slide with an paragraph of type
-\family typewriter
+Insert a slide with a
+\series bold
LandscapeSlide
-\family default
+\series default
or
-\family typewriter
+\series bold
PortraitSlide
-\family default
-.
+\series default
+ inset (Insert\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Custom
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Insets).
+
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
It is really helpful to read the seminar handbook:
\family typewriter
-sem-user.pdf
-\family default
- (or
-\family typewriter
-sem-user.dvi
-\family default
-)
+
+\begin_inset CommandInset href
+LatexCommand href
+name "sem-user.pdf"
+target "http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/seminar/doc/sem-user.pdf"
+
+\end_inset
+
+
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
+\end_inset
+
\end_layout
-\begin_layout PortraitSlide
+\begin_layout Standard
+\family sans
+Seminar
+\family default
+ puts everything that is not nested inside a
+\family sans
+Slide
+\family default
+ environment on extra pages as
+\emph on
+notes.
+
+\emph default
+ (See Configuration below on how to print only slides, only notes, or both.)
+
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex LandscapeSlide
+status open
+
\begin_layout SlideHeading
-Putting some content in a slide
+Configuration
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-If a paragraph shall appear in a slide, it need to be
+\begin_layout SlideSubHeading
+Output options
+\begin_inset CommandInset label
+LatexCommand label
+name "sli:output-options"
+
+\end_inset
+
+
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Itemize
-either inside the opening
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The following options can be added to the
\family sans
-LandscapeSlide
+Options
\family default
- paragraph
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Itemize
-or nested inside the
+ field in
\family sans
-LandscapeSlide
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Document
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Class
\family default
- environment
+:
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-How to nest things is explained in LyX's User's Guide chapter 3.4.
+\begin_layout Description
+slidesonly Only the slides are printed.
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
+\begin_layout Description
+notesonly Only the notes are printed
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Description
+notes Both notes and slides are printed.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Description
+notesonly* Produces a slide marker for each slide environment
+\end_layout
+\begin_layout Description
+article Print as article (two-up).
\end_layout
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\begin_inset Newpage newpage
+\end_inset
+
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout SlideSubHeading
-What can be part of a slide?
+Preamble commands
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-Virtually everything that can appear in normal LaTeX, can also be on a slide.
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The following options can be added to the
+\family sans
+LaTeX preambel
+\family default
+ in
+\family sans
+Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Document
+\begin_inset space ~
+\end_inset
+
+Class
+\family default
+:
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-(Well, floats are an exception --- who would want them on a slide.)
+\begin_layout Description
+
+\backslash
+onlyslides{8,9,11} print only slides number 8, 9 and 11 (e.
+\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
+\end_inset
+
+g.
+\begin_inset space \space{}
+\end_inset
+
+color plots),
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-Additionally there are the paragraph styles:
+\begin_layout Description
+
+\backslash
+notslides{4,8,9,11} don't print these slides.
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Itemize
+\end_inset
+
-\family sans
-SlideHeading,
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Itemize
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex PortraitSlide
+status open
-\family sans
-SlideSubheading,
+\begin_layout SlideHeading
+Slide contents
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Itemize
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+Virtually everything that can appear in normal LaTeX (except floats) can
+ also be on a slide.
+\end_layout
-\family sans
-ListOfSlides,
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+Additional styles:
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\family sans
-SlideContents,
-\family default
- and
+SlideHeading
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
\family sans
-ProgressContents
-\family default
-.
+SlideSubheading
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-All of them can be found in the Style pull-down box.
-\end_layout
+\end_inset
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
\end_layout
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
-Text within the
-\family sans
-LandscapeSlide
-\family default
- environment will go on top of the slide as a standard paragraph.
-\end_layout
+\begin_layout Standard
+\begin_inset Flex LandscapeSlide
+status open
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout SlideHeading
-What happens, when you want a List or a Heading first?
+Warnings
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-Normally, LyX does not like empty paragraphs and it kills empty environments
- before you are able to nest something in them (if you don't insert an empty
- command or a note).
-
-\family typewriter
-seminar
-\family default
-.
-\family typewriter
-layout
-\family default
- tells LyX to leave an empty
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+Size and orientation of the slides show problems depending on the output
+ format and viewing application:
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
+
\family sans
-LandscapeSlide
+seminar
\family default
- or
+ uses Postscript specials and does not work with
\family sans
-PortraitSlide
+PDF (pdflatex)
\family default
-, so you don't need to use the above workaround.
+.
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Standard
-The
+\begin_layout Itemize
+Landscape slides do not work with
\family sans
---Separator--
-\family default
- paragraph after a slide is needed because LyX will normally merge two environme
-nts if they come immediately one after the other (i.
-\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
-\end_inset
+DVI.
+\end_layout
-g.
-\begin_inset space \space{}
-\end_inset
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+With the current configuration in Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings,
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Itemize
-two Paragraphs in the
\family sans
-LandscapeSlide
+PDF (dvips)
\family default
- environment will go to one slide, if there is nothing else between.)
+ adapts the pager orientation → online viewing and presentation.
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
-
-\end_layout
+\begin_layout Itemize
-\begin_layout Standard
-The seminar class puts everything that is not nested inside a
\family sans
-Slide
+Postscript
\family default
- environment on extra pages as
-\emph on
-notes
-\emph default
- (see slide
-\begin_inset CommandInset ref
-LatexCommand ref
-reference "sli:output-options"
+ and
+\family sans
+PDF (dvipdfm)
+\family default
+ rotate landscape slides → hardcopies.
+\end_layout
\end_inset
- for output options).
+
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-There is no need for a
-\family sans
---Separator--
-\family default
- paragraph, if notes follow the slide (or if a
-\family sans
-Landscape Slide
-\family default
- is followed by a
-\family sans
-Portrait Slide
-\family default
-.
+Seminar uses non-standard ways to deal with paper layout and orientation.
+ Therefore, also Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Page Layout\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Orientation has no effect on
+ the output.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
- headings and subheadings:
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Standard
-\begin_inset CommandInset toc
-LatexCommand tableofcontents
-
-\end_inset
-
-
+ headings and subheadings.
+ (To get a slide with the listings, nest themt in a
+\family sans
+slide
+\family default
+inset.)
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subsection
\family sans
SlideContents
\family default
- paragraph style is an analogue to the table of contents but lists only
-
+ inset is an analogue to the table of contents but lists only
\family sans
SlideHeading
\family default
-s.
- It has problems with
+s (no
\family sans
SlideSubheading
\family default
-s, though which fail to show up in the list (seems to be a bug in
-\family typewriter
-slidesec.sty
-\family default
-):
+s):
+\begin_inset Flex SlideContents
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
\end_layout
-\begin_layout SlideContents
+\end_inset
+
\end_layout
\family sans
ListOfSlides
\family default
- style lists all slides in your document (to produce a slide with the list,
- nest it in a
-\family sans
-...Slide
-\family default
- paragraph):
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout ListOfSlides
-
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Subsection
-Progress Contents
+ style lists all slides in your document:
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-If you want to assure the audience, that the presentation is almost over,
- insert a slide with
-\family sans
-ProgressContents
-\family default
-:
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
-
-\end_layout
+\begin_inset Flex ListOfSlides
+status collapsed
-\begin_deeper
-\begin_layout ProgressContents
-
-\end_layout
-
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
\end_layout
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
+\end_inset
-\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
-\begin_layout SlideHeading
-Configuration
\end_layout
-\begin_layout SlideSubHeading
-Output options
-\begin_inset CommandInset label
-LatexCommand label
-name "sli:output-options"
-
-\end_inset
-
-
+\begin_layout Subsection
+Progress Contents
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-The following options can be added to the
-\family sans
-Options
-\family default
- field in the menu
+If you want to assure the audience, that the presentation is almost over,
+ insert a slide with
\family sans
-Document\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-Settings\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-Document
-\begin_inset space ~
-\end_inset
-
-Class
+ProgressContents
\family default
:
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Description
-slidesonly Only the slides are printed.
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Description
-notesonly Only the notes are printed
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Description
-notes Both notes and slides are printed.
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Description
-notesonly* Produces a slide marker for each slide environment
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Description
-article Print as article (two-up).
-\end_layout
-
\begin_layout Standard
-\begin_inset Newpage newpage
-\end_inset
+\begin_inset Flex LandscapeSlide
+status open
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+\align center
+\begin_inset Flex ProgressContents
+status collapsed
-\end_layout
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
-\begin_layout SlideSubHeading
-Preamble commands
\end_layout
-\begin_layout Description
-
-\backslash
-onlyslides{8,9,11} print only slides number 8, 9 and 11 (e.
-\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
\end_inset
-g.
-\begin_inset space \space{}
-\end_inset
-color plots),
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Description
-
-\backslash
-notslides{4,8,9,11} don't print these slides.
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
-
-\end_layout
+\end_inset
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout SlideSubHeading
Fancier formatting
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-The LaTeX preamble is the right place for many many options to get fancier
- formatting, e.
+The LaTeX preamble is the right place for many options to get fancier formatting
+, e.
\begin_inset space \thinspace{}
\end_inset
the Iwona fonts:
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout LyX-Code
\backslash
usepackage{iwona}
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
\begin_layout Itemize
fancy frames:
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout LyX-Code
\backslash
shadowsize}{1pt}]{shadow}
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout --Separator--
+\begin_layout Standard
+See
+\family typewriter
-\end_layout
+\begin_inset CommandInset href
+LatexCommand href
+name "sem-user.pdf"
+target "http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/seminar/doc/sem-user.pdf"
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
+\end_inset
+ for details.
\end_layout
-\begin_deeper
\begin_layout SlideHeading
Troubleshooting
\end_layout
\begin_inset space ~
\end_inset
-E of the seminar handbook.
+E of the seminar handbook
+\family typewriter
+
+\begin_inset CommandInset href
+LatexCommand href
+name "sem-user.pdf"
+target "http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/seminar/doc/sem-user.pdf"
+
+\end_inset
+
+
+\family default
+.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
Assure that the document page margins are set to default.
\end_layout
-\end_deeper
-\begin_layout LandscapeSlide
-
-\end_layout
-
\end_body
\end_document