On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:30:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: > >> * dev-tex/feynmf >> Latest version available: 1.08-r3 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 328 kB >> Homepage: >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/feynmf/ >> Description: Combined LaTeX/Metafont package for drawing of Feynman >> diagrams >> License: GPL-2 >> >> or even this >> >> * dev-tex/latex-beamer >> Latest version available: 3.07 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 2,335 kB >> Homepage: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ >> Description: LaTeX class for creating presentations using a video >> projector. >> License: GPL-2 FDL-1.2 LPPL-1.3c >> >> a well designed modular approach should not require these for basic >> functionality. > > > I think - and please correct me if I'm wrong, but referring to your > previous post - you have USE="extra" set.
Actually, this is irrelevant. I looked into the ebuild for texlive 2008, and latex beamer and feynmf are not controllable by USE. > I don't know anything about Feynman diagrams, but you might find "video > projector" a little misleading - Beamer is just a package of "Powerpoint" > or presentation templates for export to print or pdf. When I was at uni the > lecturers used this package to format their notes for overhead projectors, > and printed them on transparency paper. Importing the package will AIUI > simply result in the document being processed in a large font (of a type > which is clearly legible at the back of the classroom) and bullet-points > before each paragraph. Beamer is a lot more powerful than that now. It makes a PDF presentation document that when shown with, say, acrobat reader in full screen, actually is about as good, or better, than powerpoint, unless you need to deal with multimedia (videos and such). I can go on and on about the automated Table Of Contents and hyper-linked short cuts, and the control bar for advancing and rewinding slides that also allow you to jump to section headings. But it is a lot easier to just point you to the website http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ for their examples. It is sort of standard in the younger mathematical and physics community, especially because of its portability. W -- "The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." - One of the laws of computers and programming revealed. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 855 days, 19:07
