Re: powerdot
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:38:25 -0700
Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Victor,
Hi Predrag,
( My name is @ end of this email...the quote was from Victor Hugo :) )
I apologize if I offended anybody. I had best of intentions when I send
the first mail.
all good :)
I wish, I had knowledge to do the port myself. It never thought of that
but could you direct me to a documents from which I could learn how to
do ports
You can check the porters handbook :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html
This document should also be available locally in your FreeBSD installation -
mine is in (EN version) /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook
If I understand correctly from the latest emails on the *tex ports, it seems
like it is a very big job. It may be a good idea to start with a smaller port
to get used to it first.
Best,
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Re: powerdot
Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:52 -0700
Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I hope that they are aware but it seems that nobody is acting on
these issues(or at least not fast enough).
Predrag,
as good as your intentions seem to be, the results would be better if you provided help porting the apps you are interested in, or testing them, or helping.in the lists, or donating money to developers / ports / FreeBSD Foundation. Maybe you do already, and we thank you for that.
In the meantime, you and many of us will have to wait patiently for those that
are generous enough and have the time to provide the resources
(code/fixes/ports) for us to use FreeBSD for fun and profit.
Best regards,
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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Warned.
Dear Victor,
I apologize if I offended anybody. I had best of intentions when I send
the first mail.
I wish, I had knowledge to do the port myself. It never thought of that
but could you direct me to a documents from which I could learn how to
do ports.
Sincerely,
Predrag Punosevac
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Re: powerdot
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:05:52 -0700
Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I hope that they are aware but it seems that nobody is acting on
these issues(or at least not fast enough).
Predrag,
as good as your intentions seem to be, the results would be better if you
provided help porting the apps you are interested in, or testing them, or
helping.in the lists, or donating money to developers / ports / FreeBSD
Foundation. Maybe you do already, and we thank you for that.
In the meantime, you and many of us will have to wait patiently for those that
are generous enough and have the time to provide the resources
(code/fixes/ports) for us to use FreeBSD for fun and profit.
Best regards,
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet.
Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been
Warned.
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Re: powerdot
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 texdvipspdf. This is really not a problem since most integrated tex environments allow users to set the option texdvipspdf 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 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: powerdot
Nikola Lecic wrote: Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean by light version? One of original arguments for not porting TeXLive was that the program is simply to big (over 1Gb). Having downloaded TeXLive (binaries only) on several occasions for my friends over DSL I can confess that that is really the case (at least 3 hours for binaries over 1.5Mps DSL connection) . I purpose that the program be ported in the style of Gnome. Light strip down version which would be the minimal fully functional configuration, full (English language) version with all bells, and then another port with the support for different languages, another port Music part of the TeXLive etc. The idea of dividing the port is just initial and should be more carefully considered by the people who know more about various aspects of TeX that I do not use. Sincerely, Predrag Punosevac ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: powerdot
Nikola Lecic wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:15:57 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lecic wrote: Nobody thinks that TeXLive shouldn't be ported :) What do you mean by light version? One of original arguments for not porting TeXLive was that the program is simply to big (over 1Gb). Having downloaded TeXLive (binaries only) on several occasions for my friends over DSL I can confess that that is really the case (at least 3 hours for binaries over 1.5Mps DSL connection) . Binaries are 38M: % du -sh /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ 38M/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-freebsd/ (~270 binaries). texmf-dist/: common, platform-independent resources: 972M texmf-doc/: 136M I purpose that the program be ported in the style of Gnome. Light strip down version which would be the minimal fully functional configuration, full (English language) version with all bells, and then another port with the support for different languages, another port Music part of the TeXLive etc. Well, yes, of course, this is the way it was done where TeXLive was ported (OpenBSD, Debian...): as modularised as possible. The idea of dividing the port is just initial and should be more carefully considered by the people who know more about various aspects of TeX that I do not use. What makes you think they are not aware of this? Nikola Lečić Well, I hope that they are aware but it seems that nobody is acting on these issues(or at least not fast enough). ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
