Glen Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Can anyone strongly recommend another latex package (Prosper?) > supplied by debian that would allow me to insert a bunch of EPS figures > and math formulas, and produce an electronic presentation that can run > on Acrobat Reader.
I taught a short Java class in January and made slides using Prosper. It worked great (and *much* better than trying to use Magicpoint last year); I used 'xpdf -fullscreen -papercolor black' to actually run the slides, since xpdf is (a) free and (b) much smaller and faster than acroread. (Things that didn't work: last year's slides were done with m4-generated MagicPoint, but the presentation looks much different from the printed slides, and the syntax sucks and it's hard to get things to look nice. I had a somewhat brief foray into the world of DocBook, but I didn't want to do DSSSL/XSLT hacking to try to get something even a little presentable. I finally realized that if what I really wanted was PS/PDF, then I could generate it very straightforwardly from *TeX. I tried TeXPower but disliked it for reasons I don't recall before settling on Prosper. The one caveat with Prosper is that the slides look terrible in xdvi. This is fine; you need to go ahead and run dvips over it and then preview things in gv. The same may actually be true for TeXPower, before you abandon that.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
