Document Classes ⇒ New class for teacher beamerarticle-teacher

[benoitldr]

Hello

I developed a new class for teacher which permits from one source .tex to generate (with Makefile)
- BEAMER for presentation
- ARTICLE for STUDENT
- ARTICLE for TEACHER

Give me some feedback if you have time to test it.

The source is on GPLv2 here : https://github.com/landrieb/beamerarticle-teacher

see you

Benoit

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Benoit,

welcome to the forum!

That's an interesting news, thank you,

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

I looked at your files but the implementation still is a bit messy.

You are using if-switches in the class file for bools that were defined in the user document.

You switch the cls file into two different paths and load the same statement in both (i.e.\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}). Why not doing this before checking the mode?

Also, if you are writing the same thing more than once, consider defining a macro for that. This is in your case Chapitre 1 : Second degré.
It would be better to save second degré in a macro and use this macro in the different places. Make sure not to number things manually, but let LaTeX do it, as this can be very error-prone.

If you want to read more about developing own class and package files, please have a look at clsguide.

[benoitldr]

I looked at your files but the implementation still is a bit messy.

You are using if-switches in the class file for bools that were defined in the user document.

You switch the cls file into two different paths and load the same statement in both (i.e.\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}). Why not doing this before checking the mode?

Also, if you are writing the same thing more than once, consider defining a macro for that. This is in your case Chapitre 1 : Second degré.
It would be better to save second degré in a macro and use this macro in the different places. Make sure not to number things manually, but let LaTeX do it, as this can be very error-prone.

If you want to read more about developing own class and package files, please have a look at clsguide.

Hi

I modified the class (now only one .cls), the github is updated with example and doc (in french only...)

https://github.com/landrieb/beamerarticle-teacher

if you're interested

[Johannes_B]

I had a look at the files about a week ago, and wanted to write something about the doc as well. You are defining a lot of stuff in there provided by the stanrdard ltxdoc.cls

Back to the modified beamer class. I made some comments and improvements (at least i think so). Please have a look.

I just diffed with the latest commit, hence the different name.

[benoitldr]

Hey

Thanks you for your return !

I have a look and it's definitely proper and more in latex class spirit

I will test and modify my source of tex to be compatible with your version !

[benoitldr]

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LaTeX2e <2014/05/01>
Babel <3.9k> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
(./beamerarticle-teachert.cls
Document Class: beamerarticle-teachert 2014/09/17 V2.0.a beamerarticle-teachert

)
! Incomplete \ifeof; all text was ignored after line 25.
<inserted text> 
                \fi 

I can't manage to make with makefile... your version work but only in directly I put some {} around if else fi and nothing always the same error do you have an idea ?

[Johannes_B]

Hi Benoit, i was working on another support project yesterday using \InputIfFileExists and noticed i used it wrong. Then i tought, this musst also be wrong in the document of that french guy, but it slipped my mind.

The command \InputIfFileExists takes three arguments, the first is the filename, the second argument is processed if the file is found an input, the last is processed if the file was not found.

A little bit like this:

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\InputIfFileExists{flag}{\typeout{Reading flag-file}}{\typeout{no flag-file found}}

Sorry for the trouble.

[benoitldr]

Hey

I have found this error also

this option is great no need to modify the cls if you want to compile directly !

[Johannes_B]

Please inform the guys in the french forum about the crosspost. They might be interested in the stuff we have been talking about (as i was reading with interest just there).