gridslides: LaTeX package to create free form slides with blocks placed on a grid

This package allows to create free form slides with blocks placed on a grid. The blocks can be filled with text, equations, figures etc. This allows more flexible slides similar compared to LaTeX beamer. Sequential unconvering of elements is supported. A compiler script is provided which compiles each slide separately, avoiding long compile times this way.

Example

See the file example.tex and example.pdf. Each slide is compiled separately using compile.pl example.tex.

Supported commands

This package provides only a handful of commands, which allow to create slides and with blocks at fixed positions.

Slides/Pages

\begin{slide}{Slide title}
  Slide content
\end{slide}

\begin{rawslide}
  Raw slide without title and style
\end{rawslide}

\begin{style}
  Define style which underlies all slides.
  Best used together with \bg{filename}!
\end{style}

\begin{style}
  \bg{figure-filename}
\end{style}

Slide content blocks

The slide is divided in a 32x24 grid.

\bg{figure-filename}
\txt(x,y){Text content}
\block(x,y,w){Arbitrary content}
\fig(x,y,w){figure-filename}
\eq(x,y){a^2 + b^2 = c^2}

Sequential uncovering

Each slide can be split in multiple steps by defining blocks with <n-m> annotations.

\txt<1->(x,y){On slide step 1 to n}
\block<2>(x,y,w){Only on step 2}
\only<2-3>{
  \block(x,y){Block content}
}

Metadata

\author{Author}            defines \theauthor
\title{Presentation Title} defines \thetitle
\date{Date}                defines \thedate
\institute{Institute}      defines \theinstitute
\theheadline defined by slide title
\theslide defined by slide number

Alternatives

• beamer
• ffslides
• prosper
• pure tikz or pstricks

License

Copyright (c) 2017 Daniel Mendler. The package is dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 and the LaTeX Project Public License 1.3 at your option.