From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <98bdba637a15c53a5ab766b4df4b922b@plan9.escet.urjc.es> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] page as a presentation tool From: Fco.J.Ballesteros In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-xzlnzclkbixohdqfwptagqcpwx" Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:45:20 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7fcd8c7e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-xzlnzclkbixohdqfwptagqcpwx Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used to use LaTeX for slides, but I'm using troff for that since one or two years ago and it works very nicely with page for presentations. I had to find a macro package for slides but that was all. If you want to give troff a try for your slides, drop me a line and I'll try to package what I use. hth --upas-xzlnzclkbixohdqfwptagqcpwx Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Wed Nov 5 06:36:44 MET 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 2431419B74; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:36:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.76.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BEABE19BC5; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:36:11 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id CA83C19A25; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:35:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from t40.swtch.com (node-40245942.bos.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.89.66]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 1BBB919AB6 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 00:35:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=t40.swtch.com) by t40.swtch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AHBDW-0008pX-CD for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:08:10 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] page as a presentation tool In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:27:07 EST." <200311050527.hA55R7nM028163@math.Princeton.EDU> From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <33945.1067990883.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:08:03 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > I am currently using the sequence > > latex (prosper.cls) -> dvips -> pspdf -> xpdf > > for both classroom lectures and conference talks. It works well > enough, though a few things annoy me. It would be nice to switch > the platform from FreeBSD to plan9, since I would like to edit in > sam and the UNIX sam is rather broken. I ran into a bit of a I'm using the UNIX sam to write this. What's broken about it? > problem, however. Page -w clips the pdf version of the slides. > I don't know if this is a bug in page or if the rest of my toolchain > is producing broken pdf and xpdf is just doing a better job of > coping. Page does a fine job on the PostScript version except that > everything is rotated 90 degrees. This is the classic example of the > page orientation problem, viz. http://allendowney.com/orientation/. > For various reasons the solution suggested there doesn't work for > me. I've struggled with this a bunch and cannot seem to make ghostscript and page cooperate into doing the right rotations in all cases. > Is anyone using page for presentations and if so what are you using > to generate the slides? I am willing to consider troff-based solutions, > but since the conference talks are all on papers written in latex there > is some advantage to sticking to latex. In any case it is far from > clear to me how to teach troff about other aspect ratios without > just hacking the source. I've done troff, but if you're happy with latex I'd stick to latex. You really have to be comfortable digging deep into the guts of troff to get reasonable-looking output. I have awk scripts that postprocess the postscript to set the right bounding information. Russ --upas-xzlnzclkbixohdqfwptagqcpwx--