[OS X TeX] texpower

[Henk Verkuyl]

Dear Ross,
I made the decision to simply start with Beamer. And after half an hour I am feeling well with it. It works with tikz.picture and I can scale diagrams and the \pause works as it should. So I am very content. Thanks also to Herb.

Best regards,

Henk


On 02 Dec 2014, at 21:44, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Henkel, Ettore and others,
> 
> On 03/12/2014, at 7:04, Ettore Aldrovandi <ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 2, 2014, at 12:19, Henk Verkuyl <hjv1 at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am attaching a tex.file and its log. I have inserted saome \pause instructions, but where you see %\pause you get a weird picture and where it works you see the result: no pause but a sort of extra vertical space. I hope this is what you need to see what is going on. 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> like Herb,  I’d say you are not creating slides since you call article.cls.   Incidentally, the file does not compile: there’s an error at line 161 (see the log file), you have an eqnarray environment inside a $$.
> 
> No. It is an  {array}  inside  $...$  which is quite legal.
> However, this is all inside another high-level structure  \enumsentence  or some such, which I'm not familiar with.
> 
>> 
>> If I remember correctly, texpower can call either the standard seminar class, or powersem.cls.  Anyway, I agree with Herb,  using beamer is worth a shot, even with this short time available. The tutorial will get you started, just run
>> 
>>   texdoc beamer
>> 
>> at the terminal prompt.
> 
> Sure, Beamer is really good, but also very complicated.
> When you are already familiar with other packages, and are short of time, it is not the way that I would go.
> 
> This specific problem could just be the result of mixing too many highlevel constructions, without a proper understanding of how they use TeX's math-mode.
> 
> Also, I'm a bit concerned about using Tikz with texpower.
> Tikz's use of pgf graphics may be conflicting with texpower's need to adjust PDF output.
> (This could be a valid reason to switch to Beamer.)
> Have you had prior success with this combination?
> 
>> 
>> --
>> Ettore Aldrovandi
>> Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
>> 1017 Academic Way                *    http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
>> Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA * * aldrovandi at math dot fsu dot edu
>> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>     Ross
> 
> 
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