On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:57:41PM +0059, Laurence Tratt wrote: > I have made available a port of the latex-beamer package to OpenBSD. From the > blurb: > > The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer > presentation. It can also be used to create slides. It behaves similarly to > other packages like Prosper, but has the advantage that it works together > directly with pdflatex, but also with dvips. > > Essentially if you've ever grappled with Prosper for creating slides in > LaTeX, then latex-beamer is worth a look IMHO. > > latex-beamer has a dependency on the PGF package. Again from the blurb: > > PGF is a TeX macro package for generating graphics. It is platform- and > format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend > drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax > layer called TikZ. > > These two ports can be found at: > > http://tratt.net/laurie/obsd/ports/latex-beamer.tar.gz > http://tratt.net/laurie/obsd/ports/pgf.tar.gz > > Both are intended for the "print" category. Both require some overly-manual > installation, but function perfectly on i386 -current at least. As there are > no executables in either package, I doubt there are platform issues, but > would welcome non i386 testing anyway.
That's cool. Somehow, I haven't played a lot with latex recently, and I thought beamer would be part of tetex. Well, I'll definitely take care of your port. Thanks !
