From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 25 00:51:16 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 6CD4516A418 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from smtpclu-5.eunet.yu (smtpclu-5.eunet.yu [194.247.192.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052E513C442 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:51:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from nyx.localhost (adsl-230-230.eunet.yu [213.198.230.230]) by smtpclu-5.eunet.yu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6P0p52E015914; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:51:08 +0200 Message-Id: <200707250051.l6P0p52E015914@smtpclu-5.eunet.yu> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:46:47 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic To: Predrag Punosevac In-Reply-To: <46A69330.3020703@math.arizona.edu> References: <46A69330.3020703@math.arizona.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-EUNET-AVAS-Milter-Version: 2.0.0 X-AVAS-Virus-Status: clean X-AVAS-Spamd-Symbols: BAYES_50,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-AVAS-Spam-Score: 0.0 Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 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 00:51:16 -0000 Hello Predrag, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:02:56 -0700 Predrag Punosevac 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