I have made an important update to kerTeX, adding 22 more recipes
(packages) including beamer (LaTeX dependent) and all its
dependencies---there are also Jean-Fran\,cois Burnol's extended
precision numerical packages, a collection of fonts (Yannis
Haralambous' old German ones, for example) and misc. dependencies of
these packages.
Since I'm not a LaTeX user, I'd like people to test beamer under Plan9
and/or 9Front, specially to verify that kpstopdf (added to kerTeX)
yields the correct PDF result---the utility invokes GhostScript at low
level in order to have PDF pages matching exactly what was specified in
the PostScript files (it is not kerTeX dependent; it should work with
any PostScript file).
The problem being that in order to have correct "fading" (shadows) on
the slides, the gs(1) "-dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY" option has to be passed,
and I don't know if it is present in the gs(1) version of all Plan9 and
variants, and I don't know either if, with various differing beamer's
options, some details of the PS and then PDF rendering will work
correctly or not.
TIA.
Note: if the GhostScript version bundled with some variant of Plan9
doesn't work, the solution will be... to update GhostScript. There is
nothing I can do on the kerTeX side for this. And my plan, for kerTeX,
eventually, is to have an option to get rid of the GhostScrip
dependency, i.e. to translate directly the dvi into images, using
METAFONT as RIP.
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Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ kergis +dot+ com>
http://www.kergis.com/
http://kertex.kergis.com/
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