Hello Predrag, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:02:56 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 [...] 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 Lečić _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
