* Pixel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Alan Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It's two different bindings. Labltk is included in the ocaml
> > distribution, whereas camltk comes separately.
> 
> well, my question was more: is there any advantage having camltk when
> labeltk is bundled in Ocaml (and so may be more standard (?))
> 

Well, both of them are used in some projects, so I guess that unless
these projects decide on a common library to use, both are necessary.

> > There is a rpm of advi on its website (also accessible from the
> > freshmeat entry I created a few weeks ago).
> 
> cool, an expert. May i ask a few questions? :)
> 

I'm not an expert, I just participated in the development ;-)

> - how does it compare to MagicPoint? for mathematical stuff, advi must
> be much better. But for other things?
> 

I don't really know magic point. I use advi mainly as a replacement for
xdvi. I guess the main selling point of advi is that it displays dvi,
usually generated from latex ... so it's good for maths (and it's mainly
being used by researchers to present their work at the moment, but don't
forget it's a fairly young project). Advi allows pauses in documents
(without using overlays), so you can have "strip tease" slides. There
are many kinds of transitions form slides to slides, integration of
postscript graphics ... and probably many things I forget (if you want
to have a look at the project page, it's at
http://pauillac.inria.fr/advi ).

> - is there a way to generate html versions for publishing?
>   (using hevea?)
> 

Yes, and for a good reason: the people who develop advi, hevea, and
whizzytex (some emacs binding to see a tex document in realtime, as it
is being typed, in an advi window) all work a few meters from each other
;-)

> - related to the previous question, why is the manual only available
> in dvi... not very internet friendly!
> 

Good remark. I'll send a mail to the advi mailing list to point this out
to them.

Best,

Alan

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