The article format

The øarticle style option was described in Section

as a way to print your slides two-up. This option is also a good way to print your notes. The øarticle option gets its name because your document is typeset somewhat like it would be with L^ATEX's "article" style. (It uses L^ATEX's standard page parameters, but some of the default values are different.) It is also called the article format; the slides format is what you get without the øarticle option. You probably don't want to use the øportrait style option with the øarticle format except when you are only printing portrait slides. But you are welcome to experiment. With the ønotesonly selection, you can make the notes as big as you want using the command (e.g., for easy reading while giving a presentation). Just as in the øslides format, the page parameters are scaled at the beginning of the document so that they can be set with their true dimensions in the preamble. The commands
$\begin{MD} \setartlength{cmd}{len}\\ \addtoartlength{cmd}{len} \end{MD}$
are analogous to "" and "", but they scale the lengths so that they end up at the specified size after magnification in the "article" format. You never would use such a command in slide environments or to set slide parameters, but you might use these in the notes if you were planning on typesetting your notes with the "article" format rather than the "slides" format. You can change the placement of slides in the øarticle format using the
$\begin{MD} \slideplacement{name} \end{MD}$
command. Here are the valid placement names:

float: The slides are floated. This is the default with the ønotes selection and the øportrait option.
float*: Like "float", but if the notes are printed in a two-column format the slides extend across both columns (e.g., like "table" versus "table*"). This is the default with the ønotes selection without the øportrait option.
onepercol: Each slide is centered horizontally and vertically within a single column. This is the default when only slides are printed and the øportrait option is used.
twopercol: Each slide is centered horizontally, two or one per column, depending on how many fit. This is the default when only slides are printed and the øportrait option is not used.
here: Each slide is centered horizontally, separated from adjoining text or other slides by the rubber length . The default value of is "". This is useful with the ønotes selection when you want the slides to precede accompanying comments and when you do not mind large spaces at the bottom of pages.
here*: This is like "here*", but with "here*" the length is not lost when it falls at the beginning of a page or after a slide.

If you want each slide environment to begin a new page (with any of the selections), put the command
$\begin{MD} \slideclearpagetrue \end{MD}$
in the preamble. The ønotesonly selection has a starred version, Ønotesonly*, which produces a slide marker for each slide environment, like this one:

height 1pt to Slide 4

height 1pt

Commands that are irrelevant in the "article" format are simply ignored. The idea is that it should be possible to switch back and forth between the two formats without making any other changes in the document. However, this is not entirely possible. Changing "" or "" in the preamble affects both formats. You can get around this using the conditional. For example,

  \ifarticle
    blah blah
  \else
    blee blee
  \fi

The "" part is optional.