After starting PresTiMeL, all parameters will be initialized with hard-coded default-values. The next sections will describe three ways to override these default-values.
The default-values may be overridden with the values defined in the
configuration file .prestimelrc
located in your home directory,
or in a configuration file specified with the commandline option -c
.
Empty lines and lines beginning with a #
will be ignored.
Set the path where PresTiMeL will search for themes.
Set the theme that should be used for the presentations.
If yes
, the settings stored in the XML-file will be ignored.
If this option is omitted or set to no
,
the settings in the XML-file are enabled.
Note, that these XML-settings may override the settings of the
configuration-file.
Sets the resolution. Possible values are 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.
If set to yes
, the buttons will be placed below the content of the
slide rather than at a fixed position.
If this option is omitted or set to no
,
the buttons will be placed at a fixed position at the bottom of your
browser-window.
If set to yes
, the navigation-buttons will be placed on the top
of the slides.
The default-value is no
,
which places the navigation-buttons at the bottom.
If set to yes
, the LaTeX-output will use the documentclass "article"
rather than "seminar".
The XML-file may define the markups <html>
and
<latex>
after the <presentation>
markup.
These markups are used to define some settings related to the HTML- and
LaTeX-output,
which will will override the default-values and the values defined
in the configuration file.
The HTML-presentation can be optimized for a screen-resolution of
"640x480"
, "800x600"
or "1024x768"
.
Use this property to pre-define a theme that should be used for the HTML-output.
Possible values for this property are "yes"
and "no"
.
The padding of the cells in a grid-environment can be adjusted with this property.
Possible values for this property are "yes"
and "no"
.
And the <latex>
markup may take the following properties :
Possible values for this property are "yes"
and "no"
.
For example :
<presentation>
<html resolution="1024x768" theme="plasma" sloppybuttons="yes"/>
...
...
The settings of PresTiMeL, which were initialized by the configuration- and the XML-file, may be overridden again, using the following commandline options :
Print the version of PresTiMeL and exit.
Display a short usage-message and a list of all commandline options.
Create a LaTeX-file file.tex
rather than HTML-slides.
Set the path, where PresTiMeL will look for themes.
Set a theme, which will be used for the presentation. If the given theme doesn't exist or no theme is given, a list of all availaible themes in the current themepath will be printed. As the theme is an optional argument, no whitespace is allowed between the option and the theme.
Use the specified configuration-file to initialize PresTiMeL's settings.
If omitted, PresTiMeL will search for a config-file .prestimelrc
located in your home-directory.
Disable the settings stored in the XML-file of the presentation.
Set the resolution, for which the HTML-presentation will be optimized.
Currently, 800x600 and 1024x768 are allowed for RES
.
The default-value for RES
is 800x600.
Each HTML-slide will have a tiled background-graphic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will be disabled for all slides.
The headline of each slide has an own background-graphic. If this option is given, this background-graphic will be disabled for all headlines.
Each HTML-slide will have navigation-buttons to the first, the previous, the next and the last slide. If this option is given, the navigation-buttons to the first and last slide will be disabled.
Each slide may have a note, which is just an own HTML page with some additional information to the slide. Each slide that has some notes defined will show a button to access them. If this option is given, these note-buttons will be disabled for all slides.
Normally, the navigation-buttons will always be drawn at the bottom of the slide at a fixed position defined in the stylesheet. If this option is given, the buttons will be moved down, when the content of the slide is higher than the provided vertical space.
If this option is given, the navigation-buttons will be drawn at the top of the slides rather than at the bottom.
This option is related to the LaTeX-output. If given, the LaTeX-output will use the documentclass "article" rather than "seminar".