Installing latexslides is done by
python setup.py install
with the usual Distutils options available.
As part of latexslides, several style files (*.sty) are provided in the folder 'styles'. When running the above installation command, the style files are written to os.path.join(sys.prefix, 'share', 'texmf', 'tex', 'latex', 'latexslides') The location can be changed in the following ways:
python setup.py install --install-data=/tmp
The style files are now written to os.path.join('/tmp', 'share', 'texmf', 'tex', 'latex', 'latexslides')
python setup.py install --home=/tmp
and
python setup.py install --prefix=/tmp
work as usual, the style files are then written to os.path.join('/tmp', 'share', 'texmf', 'tex', 'latex', 'latexslides') as well.
Note that the option --install-data only works for the style files, and overwrite the options --home and --prefix for these files (as it should).
If none of these options behaves as required (for instance, you would like to install them to $HOME/texmf), then the variable 'styles_dir' in setup.py should be set to this directory.
After the script finishes, you should make sure that the latex command can find the files. If the files are located in one of the directories where LaTeX knows about them, it should suffice to run the following command:
texconfig rehash
To check which directories are available to LaTeX, you can use one of the following two commands:
texconfig conf
or
kpsepath tex
As a last resort, it is possible to set the environment variable TEXINPUTS, demonstrated for the Bash shell:
export TEXINPUTS=:.:/path/to/style_files
Note the first semi-colon; it ensures that the systemwide directories are searched first.
To convert slides to handouts with multiple slides per page, use the psnup command from the psutils package. Here is an example of how to use this command: psnup -Pa4 -4 -l -m10 -b5 -d5 infile.pdf outfile.ps see 'man psnup' and 'psnup --help'
Latexslides is based on a package now called oldlatexslides, developed by Hans Petter Langtangen and Åsmund Ødegård. Ilmar Wilbers redesigned and reimplemented that package partially based on changes already made by Arve Knudsen. New features were also added. All four authors work at Simula Research Laboratory in Norway, www.simula.no.