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New version of seminar.layout, a comprehensive LaTeX class for slides (including documentation and template).

seminar.layout

LyX layout for the Seminar Class [1] by Timothy Van Zandt

Seminar is a LaTeX package presentations with a lot of flexibility and functionnalities. More advanced then foiltex, but (by default) more "traditional" then prosper or beamer.

This extended version adds to the seminar.layout that ships with LyX:

A revised layout with nice labels.
A template and documentation file.

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Files

Seminar class (included in most modern LaTeX distributions) ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/other/seminar/
Seminar documentation http://www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/
Extended LyX layout for the seminar class: uploads:/Layouts/seminar/seminar.layout
Template file uploads:/Layouts/seminar/seminar.lyx

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README

This readme as text file uploads:/Layouts/seminar/README-seminar

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Some basic points to start with:

Obviously, you need seminar.cls (e.g. from CTAN) somewhere, where LaTeX can find it.
Copy seminar.layout into your layouts dir (~/.lyx/layouts).
When you do a reconfigure after installing seminar, this class should show up in the Layout>Document dialog.
Copy seminar.template to your templates directory (~/.lyx/templates). Now it should appear under File>New_from_Template. (Alternatively, copy anywhere you wish and open with File>Open) The next steps are explained there.
It is really helpfull to read sem-user.dvi, the documentation that comes with seminar as well as the LyX User Guide.

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Bug in seminar.cls:

seminar.cls has a bug that prevents proper working with the "a4paper" option. The option "a4" works.

The bug prevents use of seminar as doctype from LyX together with the geometry package, as LyX inserts:

 \usepackage{geometry}
 \geometry{verbose,a4paper,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=2cm,rmargin=2cm}

and subsequentely, LaTeX reports an

 ! Undefined control sequence.

error

You can either hand-insert these lines into the preamble (instead of using the doctype tab for geometry option)

 \usepackage{geometry}
 \geometry{verbose,a4,tmargin=1cm,bmargin=1cm,lmargin=2cm,rmargin=2cm}
 % replace the margin values with your favourites

or apply the following patch to seminar.cls

 --- tetex-base-2.0.2/texmf/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls.orig   Wed Dec 10
 +14:58:57 2003
 +++ tetex-base-2.0.2/texmf/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls        Wed Dec 10
 +15:03:13 2003
  -79,7 +79,7 
    \paperheight 297mm
    \slidewidth 222mm
    \slideheight 152mm\relax}
 -\DeclareOption{a4paper}{\ds@a4}%
 +\DeclareOption{a4paper}{\csname ds@a4\endcsname}%
  \DeclareOption{semrot}{\AtEndOfClass{\input{semrot.sty}}}
  \DeclareOption{semhelv}{\AtEndOfClass{\input{semhelv.sty}}}
  \DeclareOption{semcolor}{\AtEndOfClass{\input{semcolor.sty}}}

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