On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote: > OK, I wasn't very good on this point - sorry about that. There are old > versions in TeTeX, and they don't work that well for me personally [in fact, > they don't appear to be installed properly and I couldn't even get simple > examples to compile with what's in TeTeX.]
This is nonsense. Beamer in teTeX-3 in OpenBSD 3.7 works fine. It works on simple and not so simple examples for me. Besides, it works on all examples from http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/examples/ except the Chinese text in example4 that expects CJK package which is apparently not a part of the standard teTeX distribution. I bet if I download CJK from CTAN that it would work. But I really have no use for CJK. Also it's not old at all. We have beamer-3.01. The latest is 3.05-beta. We have pgf version that seems older (0.65) than the new one (0.95). Doesn't affect me frankly. Most of the people use EPS, PNG, or JPG files anyway. xcolor hasn't been changed in more than a year. It's still at version 2.0 that is in our teTeX distribution. > teTeX is also missing the fairly vital documentation and examples > without which one is pretty much stuck. Is it so difficult to visit CTAN for docs and other stuff? http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/beamer.html > The ports I've posted are up to date. There are no incompatibilities > since the ports install in texmf-local, thus preserving whatever was > in textmf-dist. I believe this is useful to you personally if you prefer to have the latest and greatest features. I personally, and most of other people can live with the standard teTeX distribution. It's like OpenBSD. It doesn't have all the fancy stuff some other OSs have, yet I still use it. :-) > This does perhaps raise a question of what we should do when there are > semi-duplicates with teTeX... Especially with something like beamer has a > much quicker release schedule than the somewhat monolithic teTeX. We shouldn't do anything. Keep teTeX as it is. Six months is not a long wait for the new package release. If you really need the latest and greatest stuff, your personalized packages, fonts, and what not, drop it in $HOME/texmf tree and enjoy. At one point beamer development will slow down (sooner than later) and your port would be deleted from the ports tree. I think it should remain your personal port. Unless of course you persuade us with a precise list of simple examples that do not work in the current teTeX setup, rather than just a vague claim that it didn't work for you. Because it works for me. Regards, Zvezdan Petkovic
