CTAN update: talk
This is the v2.0 release of the talk package for writing presentations in LaTeX. The distinguishing feature of the talk package is that it supports the definition of an arbitrary number of slide *layouts*, i.e. slides with consistent design but catering for different types of content, and allows the user to switch between them. (For example, you can have a layout without a slide title and use it in situations where you need more space for content.) This release is a major overhaul of the package: * The definition / customisation of presentation styles has been greatly simplified by removing the tight coupling with the pgf package. pgf is still a dependency, but new presentation styles can now be defined without using the package directly. * Hyperlinks (from the hyperref package) now work as expected and the sidebar in the 'talk-sidebars' style is now *navigatable*. * The package now includes another built-in style called talk-simple.sty which is more suitable for short presentations. This file is also serves as a starting point for building your own styles as in contains a lot of comments on how to ustomise it. * All built-in styles now use 16:9 aspect ratio for slides. * Positioning of slide content is now facilitated by the \shiftbox and \twocolumn commands.
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/talk The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/talk/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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talk – A LaTeX class for presentations
The talk document class allows you to create slides for screen presentations or printing on transparencies. It also allows you to print personal notes for your talk. You can create overlays and display structure information (current section / subsection, table of contents) on your slides. The main feature that distinguishes talk from other presentation classes like beamer or prosper is that it allows the user to define an arbitrary number of slide styles and switch between these styles from slide to slide. This way the slide layout can be adapted to the slide content. For example, the title or contents page of a talk can be given a slightly different layout than the other slides.
The talk class makes no restrictions on the slide design whatsoever. The entire look and feel of the presentation can be defined by the user. The style definitions should be put in a separate sty file. Currently the package comes with two sets of pre-defined slide styles (talk-simple.sty and talk-sidebars.sty). Contributions from people who are artistically more gifted than the author are more than welcome!
| Paket | talk |
| Version | 2.0 |
| Betreuer | Martin Wiebusch |