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\begin_layout Title
The Colloquium Manual
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\begin_layout Author
Thomas White
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Last updated for Colloquium version 0.0.1
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Introduction
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Colloquium is a presentation program designed 
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by
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 someone who gives a lot of presentations, 
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for
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 people who give lots of presentations.
 Colloquium has a familiar graphical user interface and WYSIWYG slide editing,
 yet tries to encourage you to create a tidy set of slides with consistent
 appearance.
 It achieves this without placing restictions on layout and design apart
 from your own imagination.
 Colloquium allows you to drastically change the style of all your slides
 at once with a few mouse clicks, and to change it all back just as quickly
 if you don't like the result.
 The difference between Colloquium and OpenOffice.org Impress is a bit like
 the difference between LyX and OpenOffice.org Writer (except that, although
 LyX is based on LaTeX, Colloquium has absolutely nothing at all to do with
 Beamer).
 Colloquium has lots of little features which will hopefully prevent you
 from wanting to `defenestrate' your laptop every time you have to edit
 or give a presentation.
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by loading a new 
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, which controls almost all aspects of the layout
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The Components of a Slide
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Colloquium's view of a slide consists of three types of element: the 
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background
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slide furniture
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slide objects
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The 
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background
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 is made up of images, textures, coloured areas and so on.
 It might be used to put the content of the slide on top of a coloured or
 gradient shaded background instead of plain white.
 You might also use it to emphasise the area at the top of the slide, where
 the slide title might go, by putting it on top of a different colour.
 Another usual use would be to add your institution's logo in one of the
 corners of each slide, or so use an image as an overall background.
 You can create any of these things in any combination using Colloquium.
 The background is the same for all slides unless you override it for an
 individual slide, which you might normally do for the opening slide.
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Next, there is the 
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slide furniture
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 Slide furniture is always text, never an image nor some kind of arrow or
 anything else.
 The slide furniture consists of items that appear in the same place on
 each slide, but which might not have the same content from slide to slide.
 Examples include the slide title, the slide number, or the title and author
 of the presentation which some presenters like to include at the bottom
 of each slide in small text.
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Stuff on the title page isn't really considered furniture.
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 Items of furniture need not appear on every slide in Colloquium --- it's
 fine, for example, for a slide not to have a title or 
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