Because this class is an extension of the LaTeX class slides it accepts all options for that class as well as some additional options. The primary difference is not in the use of the class, but rather the look of the slides.

Some of the features included in urislides are:

• Blue and Gold headers and footers that identify the University and include the Green Hall Logo.
• Slide titles in the header.
• The ability to include small captions in the footer.
• Embedded commands for dvips that make landscape mode not appear upside down (important when displaying with a video projector).
• Ability to easily customize the header and footer.
• Default landscape mode.

Creating a urislides class presentation

Because this is a LaTeX class, you would use it in your file with the command

\documentclass[options]{urislides}

Where options are a comma separated list of any of the following options. This list includes the most useful options, although any option applicable to the slides class can be used.

• landscape | portrait: Paper orientation. The default is landscape.
• clock: This allows timings to be placed on the notes slides that accompany the presentation, to indicate the time to be spent on each slide. It is part of the standard slides class.
• bw: Make the default logo, and the bars that separate the header and footer from the body black and white. This is useful if printing on a black and white printer, because the gold university name will often appear gray if this option is not used.
• nofoot: No footer will be at the bottom, and the body text of the slide will be one inch longer. The page numbers will be in the upper right instead of the lower right.

Creating slides

Creating slides is easy. Each slide begins with a \begin{slide} and ends with an \end{slide}. The title of the slide is set with the \slidetitle{title} command. The complete LaTeX document:

  \documentclass{urislides}
  \begin{document}
 
  \begin{slide}
  \slidetitle{A Very Simple Presentation}
  This is a very simple presentation.
  \end{slide}
 
  \end{document}

will produce a slide that looks like:

Commands to Generate Presentation

If the slides are just going to be printed, then the they would be created just as would any other LaTeX document. If the slides will be presented using a video projector, then the easiest way is to create a .pdf file, then use the Adobe Acrobat Reader in full screen mode. To commands to create a .pdf file are:

1. First create a .dvi file using LaTeX:
   latex file.tex
2. Next, create a postscript (.ps) file, but include the command line option "-P pdf" with dvips:
   dvips -P pdf file.dvi -o file.ps
3. Create the .pdf file:
   ps2pdf file.ps

To display the presentation, open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and under the "View" menu select "Full Screen". Use the "Page Up" and "Page Down" keys to advance the slides, and use the "Esc" key to exit the presentation.

More Examples

More examples are available on the examples page.

		Main urislides help page.
		Department's main LaTeX help page.

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