From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA21452; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:25 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA21279 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:23 +0100 (MET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g1FKcN529558 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:23 +0100 (MET) Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id VAA21364 for caml-announce@inria.fr; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:22 +0100 (MET) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200202152038.VAA21364@pauillac.inria.fr> Subject: [Caml-list] Major release of Active-DVI To: caml-announce@inria.fr Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:38:22 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi, This is the official announcement of the long time delayed new version of Active-DVI. Active-DVI is a presenter and previewer for texts or slides written in LaTeX, hence the presentation tool of choice for the discriminating hacker. Although this version has no known bugs at all, it is still for brave souls, since the installation is not yet fully automatic (see below). However, we daily use this version of Active-DVI for presentations: once installed, the software is easy to use and reliable. We hope you will adopt Active-DVI and participate to the development efforts by providing some nice example presentations or templates for regular slides presentation LaTeX packages, may be some new LaTeX macro set, or even some fancy effects Caml module of your own, ready to incorporate into Active-DVI. Enjoy! For the Active-DVI development team, 15th february 2002, Jun Furuse (Jun.Furuse@inria.fr) & Pierre Weis (Pierre.Weis@inria.fr) Active-DVI Version 1.0 is now available. As the release number shows, this is a major improvement w.r.t version 0.4 of Active-DVI. This new version has been developed by Jun Furuse, Didier Rémy and Pierre Weis with also contributions by Didier Le Botlan, Roberto Di Cosmo, Xavier Leroy, and Alan Schmitt. In addition to the regular features of the Active-DVI previewer: * Encapsulated Postscript File inclusion (using the graphics LaTeX package) * Some effects for presentation (pause, delay, text color change) this release introduces a lot of new features * Interactive demos, via launching of applications from within the slides * Background colors and background images for slides * Annotations of texts (visible when the mouse is on the annotated text) * Hyper references from slide to slide or to other dvi files * Animated transitions from slide to slide * Text movements within the slide * Recording of text and arbitrary playback of recorded elements * Superposition effects for included images (alpha channels and blending) * A manual * A lot of examples, including talks using populat LaTeX packages seminar and prosper. * New package xprosper.sty, an extended version of the prosper package from http://prosper.sourceforge.net/. * A new user's interface in the redesigned LaTeX package advi.sty. Play advi on the demonstration presentation demo.dvi that is in the test directory of the distribution. Look at source code of various talks in the directory ``examples''. The source code, RPM packages, and information are available at http://pauillac.inria.fr/advi/ PLEASE NOTE THAT RPM PACKAGES ARE NOT YET BULLET PROOF. PLEASE, DO USE THE SOURCE CODE TO BUILD THE SOFTWARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE You can join the Active-DVI mailing list by droping a mail to advi-list-request@pauillac.inria.fr Bug reports can be sent to advi-bugs@pauillac.inria.fr Contributions and comments are warmly welcome. -- INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/ ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr