From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 00:31:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2F4B16A419 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:31:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp102.math.arizona.edu (smtp102.math.arizona.edu [128.196.102.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B4813C483 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:31:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDUOI-0005zL-1a for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:06:12 -0700 Received: from 71-220-155-219.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.155.219] helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtp102.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1IDUOH-0005zD-Ms for freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:06:10 -0700 Message-ID: <46A69330.3020703@math.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:02:56 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Windows/20070716) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) Cc: Subject: powerdot X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:31:58 -0000 I would like to bring to your attention the fact that there is a new (actually about 3 years old) Latex class of presentations called powerdot which replaces obsolete and baggy class of presentations called prosper (comprehensive information about all Latex classes of slide presentations can be found at http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#present). Prosper is ported for a very long time, beamer another popular class of presentations is ported as well. However powerdot is not ported. The advantages of powerdot over beamer are plentiful (starting with the fact that manual is about 60 pages vs beamer manual 400pages). The only reason that beamer seems to gain more popularity is that fact that can be directly compiled by pdflatex while powerdot requires tex>dvi>ps>pdf. This is really not a problem since most integrated tex environments allow users to set the option tex>dvi>ps>pdf for compiling. On the same note I believe that the issue of the porting of TeXLive (light version of course) should be reconsidered not just because of the fact that TeXLive includes powerdot and beamer as a standard packages but because teTeX will not exist for to much longer (I am not sure if you are familiar with the fact that teTeX is winding down activities and that LiveTeX is becoming standard *nix distribution). Sincerely, Predrag Punosevac Department of Mathematics The University of Arizona (520) 578-9861