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    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to CTAN Announcements on Thu Sep 25 18:53:53 2025
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    Martin Wiebusch submitted an update to the

    talk

    package.

    Version: 2.0
    License: lppl

    Summary description: A LaTeX class for presentations

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    This is the v2.0 release of the talk package for writing
    presentations in LaTeX.

    The distinguishing feature of the talk package is that it supports
    the definition of an arbitrary number of slide *layouts*, i.e.
    slides with consistent design but catering for different types of
    content, and allows the user to switch between them.
    (For example, you can have a layout without a slide title and
    use it in situations where you need more space for content.)

    This release is a major overhaul of the package:

    * The definition / customisation of presentation styles has been
    greatly simplified by removing the tight coupling with the pgf
    package. pgf is still a dependency, but new presentation styles
    can now be defined without using the package directly.

    * Hyperlinks (from the hyperref package) now work as expected and
    the sidebar in the 'talk-sidebars' style is now *navigatable*.

    * The package now includes another built-in style called talk-simple.sty
    which is more suitable for short presentations.
    This file is also serves as a starting point for building your
    own styles as in contains a lot of comments on how to ustomise it.

    * All built-in styles now use 16:9 aspect ratio for slides.

    * Positioning of slide content is now facilitated by the \shiftbox
    and \twocolumn commands.

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/talk

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/talk/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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