This is the README file for the ppr-prv class (version 0.08).
(C) 2003 Mathieu Goutelle (INRIA, France)
mgoutell[at]users[dot]sourceforge[dot]net
CVSid: $Id: ppr-prv.txt,v 1.12 2003/10/10 07:39:52 mgoutell Exp $

----[ Changelog ]----

  v. 0.08:
     * Modification of macro names to avoid clashes ;
     * Bug in {from|until|only}Slide macros because of definition of the starred
       version (thanks to Hendri Adriens).

  v. 0.07:
     * Some improvements of the documentation while waiting for a .dtx ;
     * Add multi-language support with Babel. Currently supported languages are
       english, german and french (and all their variants). Other languages will
       come sooner.

  v. 0.06:
     * Add the 'a4paper' option passed to the article class ;
     * Bad spacing in title.

  v. 0.05: 
     * Counter initialization problem: when there's no \maketitle, the slides
       are bad numbered.

  v. 0.04:
    * Forgotten to define the 'Itemize' environment and to gobble the optional
      parameter of the 'itemstep' environment ;
    * 'textcomp' package added (for the \textdegree macro).

  v. 0.03:
    * Better handling of the {only,until,from}Slide* macros.

  v. 0.02:
    * Cosmetic changes.

  v. 0.01:
    * First version.

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This class is used with LaTeX presentations using the prosper class.  ppr-prv
stands for "Prosper Preview". The aim of this class is to produce a printable
version of the slides written with Prosper, with two slides per page.

The result tries to be as accurate as possible. The major problem is the support
of the starred version of the {only,until,from}Slide macros: the result is
approximately what you can expect... It is far from perfect, just because the
content of this macros are heaped over each other. But, it is difficult to
handle these overlays on a sheet of paper!

The installation of ppr-prv files follows the same scheme as any other package
installation on your distrib. You can consult this page from the UK TeX FAQ:
<URL:http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instpackages>.

To use ppr-prv, you just have to change the \documentclass from 'prosper' to
'ppr-prv'. You don't need to change another thing to your Prosper document: all
the macros and options of Prosper are normally fully supported by ppr-prv. You
can change the footer of each "slide" by changing \slidename and \no. By
default, it is defined as: \newcommand{\slidename}{slide} and
\newcommand{\no}{\#}. Since version 0.07, it uses Babel to support various
languages (english, french, german and all their variants): if Babel is loaded,
the footer is adapted to the chosen language. You can off course change it
manually with \renewcommand{\slidename}{...} and \renewcommand{\no}{...} after
'\begin{document}'.

You can send comments, bugs report or proposed improvements to the author by
email: <mgoutell[at]users[dot]sourceforge[dot]net>.

