On 14:16 Sun 17 Sep , Vikas Kumar wrote: > On 10:10 Sun 17 Sep , Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote: > > On 09:51 Sun 17 Sep , Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I have just heard about a TeX/LaTeX extension by the name "beamer" that > > > can > > > produce stunning slide shows. I have been told that it beats PowerPoint, > > > Impress, KPresenter and any other presentation software hands down due to > > > TeX's built-in knowledge of true typesetting. Another advantage is that > > > the > > > result is a PDF and can be presented on any system with a fairly recent > > > PDF > > > viewer. A friend of mine showed it to some PowerPoint magicians and > > > apparently, they were blown away. > > > > > > I tried > > > emerge --pretend --verbose beamer > > > which returned nothing. > > > > > > Does anybody know whether it is in portage - and if so, under what name? > > > > > > Uwe > > > > > > > emerge --ask --verbose latex-beamer > > > > Hi friends, > > Sorry for a small hack to the thread. I tried to emerge latex-beamer. > I've app-text/tetex installed in my computer, which is blocking > latex-beamer. > > # emerge -pv latex-beamer > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [blocks B ] >=app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking dev-tex/xcolor-2.00-r1) > [blocks B ] >=app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking dev-tex/pgf-0.64-r1) > [blocks B ] >=app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking > dev-tex/latex-beamer-3.00-r1) > [ebuild N ] dev-tex/xcolor-2.00-r1 455 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-tex/pgf-0.64-r1 356 kB > [ebuild N ] dev-tex/latex-beamer-3.00-r1 2,482 kB > > Please guide me to install latex-beamer.
Sorry friends, I just checked that the version of tetex (3.0_p1-r3) includes beamer :) . -- [email protected] mailing list

