Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-20 Thread Henning Brauer
* Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-19 09:48]: Nice to see that such a thing exists... I was thinking of doing something similar by myself... nevertheless the installer of mathml seems to be a bit lame and I am a bit worried about the portability of the final file. Sometimes, as you

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-20 Thread Edd
Hi, On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 05:45:26PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: 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

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-20 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
ConTeXt is looking *very* nice. Nevertheless I do not find the sources for the many pdf examples of pragma... in the wiki you point at, there's written: --- If you're interested in presentations, your first stop should be the pragma website. You can download pdfs with the documented

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, yes, I also thought of something similar, but the result is that gs produces slides which are not smooth, i.e. you can almost see the pixels. You can increase the resolution but this makes also the slides heavier and then you run into the same snag... Thanks Pau 2008/3/19, Alexandre

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:18:30 Mar 18, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: Hi, very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I can edit with vi(m) and it fulfilled

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi Predrag, I am mostly interested in the speed... do you have an example that I can see (send privately to me)? You say also that it's easy to add movies to the slides, can you embed them, actually? This would be very interesting. Pau 2008/3/19, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Pau

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
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

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:43:32 Mar 18, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: I find that the speed, or lack thereof, which which xpdf renders each new page (or progessive-overlay-on-the-same-page) varies from too fast for any perceptable delay to a couple of seconds and sometimes even to 10 secondes. It seems to depend

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Nice to see that such a thing exists... I was thinking of doing something similar by myself... nevertheless the installer of mathml seems to be a bit lame and I am a bit worried about the portability of the final file. Sometimes, as you know, you are asked to not plug in your laptop, so that

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Lars Noodén
Matthew Szudzik wrote: ... HTML is probably the most portable solution for your problem, and movies would work fine too (using VLC's Mozilla plug-in). ... That would also probably work with S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ Putting on my ODF and OOo hats, I feel obligated ;) to

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
In the next couple sentences I will try to answer some of the questions you guys asked me about powerdot class of latex presentations. 1. Yes it is easier to learn than the Beamer but if know Beamer and it works for you maybe you should stick to your guns. This is the link to documentation

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
movie15... yes, I know it from latex-beamer... it's (was?) crap It will only embed movies under acroread AND windows... and asks for very recent pdflatex versions... at least this was the case one year ago, when I gave it a chance last time... evince, on the other hand, is not displaying

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
I must apologise for speaking like that but I have spent HOURS in the past trying to make movie15 work... until I realised of the points I made in my last email. I was very angry 2008/3/19, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: movie15... yes, I know it from latex-beamer... it's (was?) crap

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: movie15... yes, I know it from latex-beamer... it's (was?) crap It will only embed movies under acroread AND windows... and asks for very recent pdflatex versions... at least this was the case one year ago, when I gave it a chance last time... Well in all honestly

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 09:25:33AM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: Hi, yes, I also thought of something similar, but the result is that gs produces slides which are not smooth, i.e. you can almost see the pixels. Using -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 options of gs should produce

using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I can edit with vi(m) and it fulfilled all requisites ... and I was used to it when I was

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Pau Amaro-Seoane asked about options for producing slides (for a computer presentation) containing lots of math, plots, and sometimes movies, given that the pdf slides created with latex-beamer feel heavy... What I mean is that when using full screen (with xpdf or kpdf etc) it takes some 3-4

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:18:30PM +0100, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: Hi, very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I can edit with

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Szudzik
Question: Do you have any recommendation / suggestion to prepare talks to be shown in a projector including mathematical equations, plots and, eventually, movies (I can live without this last point)? HTML is probably the most portable solution for your problem, and movies would work fine too

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-18 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: Hi, very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I can edit with vi(m) and it fulfilled all requisites ... and I