%%% AAT.CLS -- A LaTeX class to produce Al Amarja Today newspapers for %%% the Over The Edge Roleplaying game %%% %%% Copyright © Jonas Steverud (steverud@bredband.net) %%% %%% Version 1.0 %%% %%% Distributed according to the LaTeX Project Public Licence, LPPL. %%% %%% (The LPPL is a free software licence which among other things %%% requires that the derived work doesn't use the same name as the %%% original work. I.e. if you want to change this, you are free to do %%% so but don't call i AAT.CLS. See the licence for details.) %%% IMPORTANT! This class requires the memoir class, which can be %%% downloaded from CTAN. It won't work without it! The memoir class %%% is a very powerfull document class which gives wast possibilites %%% to the design of the page. It also requires the Times package (the %%% Times font), the ifthen package and the multicol package. %%% As already stated, AAT.CLS is a LaTeX class to produce the back %%% page of the Al Amarja Today newspaper, the page with %%% ''Oppertunities On The Edge'' and ''Little Scratches''. It is not %%% restricted to the oppertunities and little scratches, also %%% ''ordinary'' news articles can be incorporated. Except for %%% the class options (see below) it also contains a small number of %%% commands and environments to ease the task. %%% It currently only supports A4 paper in portrait, or to be %%% specific: It *requires* A4 paper in portrait. %%% Class options and usage of the class: %%% \documentclass[options]{aat} where options are either %%% ''playerversion'' (default, used if no option is given) or %%% ''GMversion''. They are mutually exclusive and the difference is %%% that in ''GMversion'', the GM note is printed (see the environment %%% aatnote*) %%% Commands: %%% There are five commands that the user need to bother about: %%% \aatheading Used in an aatnote or aatnote* environment and %%% produces the bold heading in the notes. Takes two %%% arguments, one optional and the heading. The optional %%% is the name of the command (without the backslash) to %%% format the heading. Valid optional arguments are %%% ''textbf'' (default) and friends: %%% \aatheading{Money for Fighting} %%% \aatheading[textit]{Money for Fighting} %%% \littlescratches Produces the texts ''Oportunites on Al Amarja'' %%% \opportunites and ''Little Scatches''. %%% \newsheadline Produces a news headline, like ''Peace Force's %%% campain on drug abuse continues.'' It takes one %%% argument that is the headline. %%% \sectionfontname The name of the section font according to %%% NFSS. Default is ''egs'', use %%% \renewcommand{\sectionfontname}{ptm} to use %%% Times for section headings too. (egs is Gill Sans.) %%% \AATheadline Produces the headline for the page (''The only %%% news...'' etc.), use it after \begin{document}. %%% Takes two arguments, the issue number and the author %%% (or any other misc. text). The second argument, the %%% author, is not produced unless it's a GM's %%% version. %%% Environments: %%% There are one environment, aatnote, and a starred version of it. %%% The unstarred version is straight forward. It produces its %%% contents with some space to the note before and after. The starred %%% version takes one argument which is a GM's note. If the %%% ''GMversion'' class option is used, this note is printed after the %%% aatnote. I.e. to produce a GM's version of the page which he uses %%% for his own reference. With the ''playerversion'', this GM's note %%% is naturally not printed. %%% \begin{aatnote} %%% Blah blah. %%% \end{aatnote} %%% \begin{aatnote*}{More blah blah.} %%% Blah blah. %%% \end{aatnote*} %%% Usage: %%% Use \documentclass[options]{aat} with the option of you choice, %%% load other packages etc. Then begin the document, %%% \begin{document}, call \AATheadline with the arguments of your %%% choice. The next thing to do is to is to begin a four multicolumn %%% environment, \begin{multicols}{4}, and to use \opportunites. After %%% all opportunites, call \littlescratches and then end the multicols %%% environment and the document itself. %%% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} \ProvidesClass{aat}[2002/11/24 LaTeX class for Al Amarja Today, built upon the memoir class, Copyright Jonas Steverud, distributed according to LaTeX Project Public Licence.] %% Load memoir with the appropriate options. \LoadClass[a4paper,11pt,twoside,article,openright]{memoir}% %% Load packages \RequirePackage{times}% \RequirePackage{ifthen}% \RequirePackage{multicol}% % Help commands to select the currect heading font etc. \newcommand{\sectionfontname}{egs}% \newcommand{\sectionfont}{\fontfamily{\sectionfontname}\selectfont\Large{}}% \newcommand{\sectionfontsize}[2]{\fontsize{#1}{#2}\sectionfont}% \newcommand{\SetupPagestyle}{% \makeoddhead{plain}{}{}{}% \makeevenhead{plain}{}{}{}% \makeoddfoot{plain}{}{}{}% \makeevenfoot{plain}{}{}{}% \pagestyle{plain}% }% \setlength{\parindent}{0em}% %% These commands comes from the memoir class. %% w = 210 mm, h = 297 mm, a4paper is expected. \settypeblocksize{280mm}{190mm}{*}% \setlrmargins{1cm}{*}{*}% \setulmargins{1cm}{*}{*}% \setheadfoot{1mm}{1mm} \setheaderspaces{*}{1mm}{*} \setmarginnotes{1mm}{1mm}{1pt} \checkandfixthelayout% %%% Shall we use a GM's version or a players' version? \newboolean{GMversion}% \newcommand{\@playerversiontrue}{\setboolean{GMversion}{false}}% \newcommand{\@GMversiontrue}{\setboolean{GMversion}{true}}% \@playerversiontrue% Default \newcommand{\isGMversion}[1]{\ifthenelse{\boolean{GMversion}}{#1}{}}% \DeclareOption{GMversion}{\@GMversiontrue}% \DeclareOption{playerversion}{\@playerversiontrue}% \DeclareOption*{\ClassWarningNoLine{aat}{Unknown option `\CurrentOption'.}}% \ProcessOptions\relax% \AtBeginDocument{\SetupPagestyle}% \newenvironment{aatnote}{\noindent}{\par\noindent\vspace{.5\baselineskip}}% \newcommand{\saveGMnote}[1]{\sbox{\aatGMnotebox}{% \parbox{\columnwidth}{\hrulefill\\% \textsc{GM's note:} \textit{#1}}}}% \newcommand{\typesetGMnote}{\par\noindent\usebox{\aatGMnotebox}}% \newsavebox{\aatGMnotebox}% \newenvironment{aatnote*}[1]{% \isGMversion{\saveGMnote{#1}}% \begin{aatnote}}{% \isGMversion{\typesetGMnote}\end{aatnote}}% \newcommand{\opportunites}{\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}\noindent{\sectionfont{}Opportunities On\\ \textsc{The Edge}}\newline\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}\noindent}% \newcommand{\littlescratches}{\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}\noindent{\sectionfont{}Little Scratches}\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}}% \newcommand{\newsheadline}[1]{\noindent{\sectionfont{}News: #1}\newline\vspace{1.5\baselineskip}\noindent}% \newcommand{\AATheadline}[2]{% \begin{center} {\fontsize{.8cm}{1.2cm}\selectfont\itshape{}``The only news you need to read!''} \rule{\textwidth}{.2pt} \raisebox{\baselineskip}{\rule{0pt}{.8pt}\rule{\textwidth}{1pt}} \vspace{\baselineskip} \noindent{\fontsize{1.5cm}{1.8cm}\selectfont{}AL AMARJA TODAY} \makebox[\textwidth][r]{Issue: #1\isGMversion{ (#2)}} \rule{\textwidth}{2pt} \end{center}% }% % Sets an heading for the aatnote. Optional argument is the name - one % and only one of the LaTeX command which changes the style of the % text and takes one argument. Valid optional arguments are % e.g textbf (default), textit, ... % Large etc. doesn't seems to work no matter what. \newcommand{\aatheading}[2][textbf]{\csname #1 \endcsname {#2}\\}%