[OS X TeX] 2 questions on presentations

[Bruce Kellogg]

Thanks a lot. Beamer looks quite helpful.

Bruce Kellogg
rbmjk at alltel.net
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On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Rob van Gerwen wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:48:09 -0400
>> From: Bruce Kellogg <rbmjk at alltel.net>
>> Subject: [OS X TeX] 2 questions on presentations
>> To: TeX Mailing List on Mac OS X <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Message-ID: <0E70676E-3F60-4127-A4EE-83E633477473 at alltel.net>
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>> 1. I use the seminar \documentclass, with the first several lines as
>> follows:
>>
>> \documentclass{seminar}
>> \usepackage{hyperref}
>> %\slideframe{plain}
>> \usepackage[metapost]{mfpic}
>> \usepackage[dvipsnames]{color}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{amsmath}
>> \usepackage{amsthm}
>>
>> I process the file and get some pages of output. Then I uncomment
>> '\slideframe{plain}', process the file and get the same output.
>> Shouldn't
>> I get something different, such as each page having a frame around  
>> it?
>>
>> 2. I would like to try prosper.
>
> I have tried prosper once but found it rather troublesome. Of  
> course I don't know whether it would suit your needs, but I would  
> recommend you try beamer.
> That is really a feast.
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>> According to Kopka & Daly I must
>> reset some stuff
>> in preferences to enable prosper. I confess to not knowing what to  
>> set.
>> Do i change something in the Engine pane, or the Misc pane, or the
>> Typesetting pane? At present, in the Misc pane I have mptopdf and
>> Ghostscript
>> checked. In the Typesetting pane I have Pdftex checked.
>
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