Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:46:47 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: powerdot Message-ID: <200707250051.l6P0p52E015914@smtpclu-5.eunet.yu> In-Reply-To: <46A69330.3020703@math.arizona.edu> References: <46A69330.3020703@math.arizona.edu>
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Hello Predrag, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:02:56 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> wrote: > I would like to bring to your attention the fact that there is a new=20 > (actually about 3 years old) Latex class of presentations called=20 > powerdot which replaces obsolete and baggy class of presentations=20 > called prosper (comprehensive information about all Latex classes of=20 > slide presentations can be found at=20 > http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#present). >=20 > 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. >=20 > On the same note I believe that the issue of the porting of TeXLive=20 > (light version of course) should be reconsidered [...] Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean by "light version"? > 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). There was a small discussion related to porting TeXLive to FreeBSD 3-4 days ago, please see the archives; I'm personally interested to see it ported (and to help), too. AFAIK hrs@ is working on it, but still no answer from him. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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