[comp.text] SliTeX --- handing out notes of slides

isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) (01/08/90)

This has probably been asked before, however, does anyone
have a good method to reduce the size of the slides and
output them say 4 to an A4 page (various versions of dvips
can output in landscape mode). Ideally one would want
smaller versions of the fonts rather than postscript scaled 
versions of SliTeX fonts. 	Thanks in advance.	isaac@goanna.oz.au

PS. I guess a postscript font version of SliTeX coupled with 
a program like mpage (although mpage doesn't seem to work with
our (Rokicki's great) dvips produced postscript. FYI, mpage outputs
multiple pages of ascii or postscript to an A4 page and was posted to
comp.sources.unix (or misc, I can't remember which). Has anyone
postscriptfontised SliTeX?	

rusty@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (01/09/90)

Here's what I use.  For the handouts my .tex file has

    \setlength{\partopsep}{2pt plus 10pt minus 1pt}
    \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

    \newcounter{fig}
    \newcommand{\mkslide}[1]{%
    \addtocounter{fig}{1}
    \pagebreak[3]
    \input{#1}
    \begin{center}
    \fbox{\em Slide {\thefig}} \\
    \rule{\textwidth}{1pt}
    \end{center}
    \pagebreak[3]
    }

and for each slide I do

    \mkslide{who}

where who.tex is a file to suck in.

For the slides the macro for \mkslide is simply.

\newcommand{\mkslide}[1]{
\begin{slide}{}
\input{#1}
\end{slide}
}

So I have two files, paper.tex and slides.tex where paper.tex uses the
first version of \mkslide, and slides.tex the second version.  Both
input the file slide_files.tex which has a \mkslide for each slide
(one file for each slide) but paper.tex uses \input{slide_files} while
slides.tex uses \blackandwhite{slide_files}.  Also, paper.tex uses
\documentstyle{article} and slides.tex uses \documentstyle{slides}.

When you add, rearrange, delete, etc. slides you only need to fiddle
with slide_files.tex, not paper.tex or slides.tex.