From: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Subject: Re: color documents
Reply-To: dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu (David M. Jones)
Organization: Laboratory for Computer Science, MIT
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:11:33 GMT

In article <9301231823.AA04032@integral.biostats.hmc.psu.edu>, dheitjan@biostats (Daniel F. Heitjan) writes:
>I am trying to make a set of color slides starting
>from TeX and going via PostScript and Freedom of
>the Press to a slide-making device on a Mac.  Of
>course, TeX knows nothing about color, although
>PostScript does.  Does anyone know how to do this?
>I'm thinking there might be a dvips-type program
>that will interpret TeX \special commands that
>code for color letters, symbols and background.

The following two packages for making slides support color postscript
specials.  I believe that both are configured to work with dvips by
default.

Name: seminar.sty
Archive-path: macros/latex/styles/contrib/seminar/inputs/seminar.sty
Description: LaTeX document style for slides and notes.
Keywords: LaTeX, slides
Author: Timothy Van Zandt <tvz@Princeton.EDU>
Supported: yes
Latest Version: v0.92, 8 May 1992
Archives: princeton.edu* [128.112.128.1], shsu

Name: FoilTeX
Description: FoilTeX is a LaTeX-like macro package (and misc. other
    files) for making transparencies (foils, slides, etc.).  It is
    fundamentally similar to SliTeX but has some major structural
    differences.
Keywords: FoilTeX, LaTeX, dvips, slides
Author: James (Jim) Hafner, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research
    Center <hafner@almaden.ibm.com> or <hafner@almaden.bitnet>
Supported: yes
Latest Version: v1.0.1, 25 Aug 1992
Archives: ymir, aston, stuttgart
Note: Package includes a readme file (README.flt), a user's manual
    (foildoc.tex (q.v.)), and sample file (sampfoil.tex (q.v.)).
See also: colordvi.tex, blackdvi.tex

Name: colordvi.tex
Description: Style file for putting color in FoilTeX, LaTeX, or any
    other TeX documents.  It use device independent (but driver
    dependent) \special keywords and syntax.  Fully compatible with
    Rokicki's dvips driver and TeXView on the NeXT.  Blackdvi.tex (q.v.)
    can be is used to no-op all the color macros defined in
    colordvi.[tex,sty] for easy black/white printing.  The color names
    are generally derived from the Crayola crayon box of 64 colors.
Keywords: FoilTeX, dvips, color
Author: James (Jim) Hafner, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research
    Center <hafner@almaden.ibm.com> or <hafner@almaden.bitnet>
Supported: yes
Latest Version: v1.0, 21 Aug 1992
Archives: ymir, aston, stuttgart
See also: FoilTeX, blackdvi.tex
Note: This file is a duplicate (or should be) of the file with the same
    name distributed with Rokicki's dvips driver.  They are included
    here with his permission.  Parts of FoilTeX have been built with
    colordvi.tex and blackdvi.tex in mind so it is fully compatible with
    that driver for multicolor one-pass printing.  New versions from
    Rokicki should always take precedence over those distributed with
    FoilTeX.

The above information is taken from the TeX Macro Index, version 1.06,
available via anonymous ftp and mail server from theory.lcs.mit.edu
[18.52.0.92] in the file tex/TeX-index.  To retrieve it by mail, send
a message containing the line "send tex TeX-index" to
archive-server@theory.lcs.mit.edu.

FoilTeX can be found in LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.INPUTS.FOILTEX] on
ymir.claremont.edu or in soft/tex/macros/foiltex on
ftp.uni-stuttgart.de.
--
David M. Jones                              "Trifles! Trifles light as air!"
dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu                              -- the Hystricide
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