On 17:45:26 Mar 18, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I am a mathematician so I am quite often in the same position as you to > give presentations which contain > lots of formulas and images. > I use Powerdot class of Latex presentations (descendant of Prosper an > obsolete class of presentations ) which is as an alternative to the Beamer > class. For the comprehensive review of all classes of presentations for > latex you may check > > http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#present > > The advantages over Powerdot over Beamer are numerous. > Powerdot is far easier (has only 60 man pages v.s. Beamer man pages are > over 400 pages). > It is also very simple to incorporate movies into your slides. The slides > are easily customized > and in my point of view far more beautiful than the Beamer.
That will be really cool. ;) I love beauty both in women and in my work. ;) What about movies? > > The popularity of Beamer seems comes from the fact that you can use > pdflatex to produce pdf slides. > That is not possible with Powerdot as it uses some PostScript tricks. So > you will have to latex slides followed by > dvips and ps2pdf or dvipdfm to produce pdf slides. The ultimate goal of > course is to produce pdf slides. > That is no problem at all. > I noticed that one has to use Adobe Reader (I prefer Xpdf as well) which is > only available from ports due to the > license issues in order to have alive links on slides. That seems to be > built in feature ( I would call it bug) > which should be communicated probably up stream. The slides are very > responsive. I personally have not seen better > looking slides on any platform and I think I have seen it all. > > Powerdot class of presentations is part of TeXLive but not the part of > teTeX. As you know teTeX is > dead for about three years now and the TeXLive is official TeX distribution > for Unix maintained by TeX community. > TeXLive is available only from ports for OpenBSD 4.2. > However you will have to use port for 4.3 current (soon to be release) as I > stumbled upon a bug in Powerdot > class of presentation. The bug was in TeXLive source code and was well > documented. > It is already fixed by port maintainer for OpenBSD 4.3. > > As far as I know TeXLive will be regular package (you will not need to use > ports) starting OpenBSD 4.3. This is > only second Unix like system after Debian to have fully functional TeXLive > thanks to Edd Baret porter of TeXLive > for OpenBSD. On the last note I recommend that you install full TeXLive > which is about 1Gb but includes > all TeX/Latex features coded at the moment. I am not sure if the TeXLive > base includes Powerdot. I would guess yes. > I don't mind waiting till May 1. It is much better than Beamer? Do I have to go thro' the same learning curve? Your argument is quite convincing though. What about movies? -Girish -- "unix soi qui mal y pense" UNIX to him who evil thinks +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GnuPG key : 0xC7BBF207 | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net | | Fingerprint: 2AFF C264 20CE C80C DDFF CC15 AD3E F190 C7BB F207 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
