Priority
--------
1) bugs with known fixes and patches
2) portability to more TeX versions and bugs with no work around
3) bugs with work around
4) new features
1) Bugs With Known Fixes and Patches
====================================
a) Improved coordinate system etc.
b) Table of contents / outline (code by Fred Labrosse / Peter Münster)
d) pdflatex support
d) macro names should not appear in slide title
e) Enumerate always produces the numbers in black.
f) Auctex style
g) Compatibility with color
h) Compatibility with listing
i) Handling of long slide titles
j) Patches to PPRdarkblue
k) \slideparskip (or \parskip)
l) Font encoding on title slide
m) \label in overlays
n) Frames style: up-and-down movement
o) Logo Placement
p) Title disappears in darkblue w/ slideBW
q) ifInOverlays value not set to false
r) parentheses in bookmark string
s) Title placement depends on title text
t) Automatic counting of number of overlays
u) description and enumerate nesting with \itemsep
2) Portability To More TeX Versions and Bugs With no Work Around
================================================================
a) Support for vtex
b) A letter size mode
c) Remove extra movement in overlays
d) pst-node node connections in overlays
e) Graphics rotation rotates the whole slide
f) Color broken in center environment
g) Shifted right or cropped
h) Problems with newest hyperref
i) Color and makeindex
j) Misalignments with tabular environments
k) Math is not longer displayed using gs 6.
l) Multiple pictures and a white box
m) Incompatibility with french
n) Incorrect math alignment
o) Repeated chars before subscript skip one
p) \scalebox does not take 2 arguments
q) Problem with prosper and \psgrid
r) Problem with final PDF
s) Problem with epsfig or includegraphics
t) Output rotation
u) Error displaying ps file in Yap
v) \vfill and \vspace*{\fill}
3) Bugs With Work Around
========================
a) Figure number when using caption
4) New Features
===============
a) \inSlides command
b) A portrait mode
c) A notes mode
d) Generalize \itemstep
e) Formatting options to commands
f) Turn of slide number
g) Optional hyphenation
h) Navigation buttons
i) Placement and form of slide number
j) Global options
k) Dimensions in PROSPER
l) Long pages
m) In .dtx format with and .ins file
n) Remove use of \myitem
o) Graphic modeller
p) Add control on \fromSlide and friends
q) Get rid of seminar
5) Things to consider (or stuff PMN does not understand)
========================================================
a) Article option
b) Hypermedia option
c) Features of prosper demo
d) Problems with glitter, blind, etc
e) Acrobat 5.05 and prosper = no go?
f) As a Style File
Details
=======
1A) Improved coordinate system etc.
The file Frédéric posted PMN recently
1B) table of contents / outline (code by Fred Labrosse / Peter Münster)
PMN ideas for functionality would be as follow:
- \overviewslide produces an overview slide
- \section, \subsection, \subsection add entries to the overview
and present the current entry with the command
\overviewcurrent{level}{text}
From Fred Labrosse <ffl@aber.ac.uk>: You can find a suitable style at
http://pmrb.free.fr/prosper/.
Discussion on functionality by Fred Labrosse and Peter Münster
From Fred Labrosse
Dear all,
I am currently trying to produce a way to automatically generate outline
pages. I obviously had a look at what Peter Münster did in his
PPRpmsout.sty and I think I now understand it. I was wondering whether his
approach is "better" than the original one in slidesec.sty (obviously,
"better" needs to be defined ;-). Peter has ONE command (\pmsec) that adds
its argument to a list of headings AND generates the outline page with all
the headings, the crosses, and the tick. The original slidesec.sty
separates these two steps; one command adds its argument to the list of
headings and another command generates the outline page with all the
headings, the crosses, and the tick.
I was also wondering whether there could be a starred version of the slide
environment that would add its title to the list of headings.
In order for what I will do to be as useful as possible, I would like to
know what YOU think is the best.
Cheers,
Fred
Answer from Peter Münster
Of course it's better to have flexibility. Consider \pmsec just as
a personal hack, to hide the difficulties with the counters and
the bookmarks in the style file. It would be better to have some
custom commands for
* adding headings;
* making a slide with the outline;
* robust mechanism for subheadings (or simply the slidetitles like
in pmsout).
* ...
And the good place for all this is not the style file in my
opinion. Those commands should be defined in the class-file and in
the style file there should be some more possibilities to define
different styles (for the title-slide, outline and other for
example).
Cheers, Peter
A later mail (Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:35:03 +0100) by Jean-Charles
Bagneris (jcb@mnet.fr)
Hi there,
I am trying to figure out a way to have nested bookmarks in the pdf
slideshow - because prosper is great, but I really miss *structure* for my
slideshows (section, subsection etc.)
Diving in prosper.sty, I can not see any convenient way to do so, except
ugly hacks of the code.
1. Did I miss something about structure, bookmarks, ...
2. Where do I find information about all the macros driving pdf rendering,
such as \pdfmark and so on ?
Thanks a lot !
1C) pdflatex Support
see
- page by Dekel Tsur (http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/slides/)
- mail ``[Prosper-users] Re: pdflatex and LyX'' by Bas Spitters
Also, there has been a bug report on SourceForge concerning
pdf-latex:
Later version Prosper with pdf-latex
The result of building prosper-slides with latex is ok, but if I
try to use pdflatex [pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d] the
slides are shifted to the right and there are no colors, no
centered environments, no background, no images, etc
What's wrong?
I tried to make it in the same way as in the slides-examples found
on prosper.sourceforge.net -> examples.
here some version numbers:
- pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
- TeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159
- CVSId: $Id: TODO,v 1.6 2002/08/05 14:47:04 turtleturtle Exp $
I'm using teTex 1.0.7
1D) Macro Names Should Not Appear in Slide Title
The problem is that command names, e.g., \texttt show up in the
description giving in the PDF outline. In some few occasions, most
notable greek letters, that might be convenient, but most of the
time it is a pain in the butt
From Brian Elmegaard
See the \texordfdstring macro on page 44 of
http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/tutorial/pdfmarks/hyper.pdf
From Peter Münster
I remember having encountered similar problems. My solution (it's
also in http://pmrb.free.fr/prosper/PPRpmsout.sty):
\renewcommand{\@addBookmarkOnSlide}[1]{\pdfbookmark[1]{#1}{bm\theslide}}
In fact, the construction in prosper.cls was too complicated for
me. When you use the \pdfbookmark command, then not only
\texorpdfstring but also the command
"\pdfstringdefDisableCommands" should work. An example for the
second one can be found in
http://pmrb.free.fr/prosper/mylayout.sty.
Related to this is the following bug report on SourceForge
[ 501698 ] dashes and such in bookmarks
This is not a serious bug but it's a bit annoying.
The bookmarks of the pdf-file are created from the headings of the
slides. Good. When I use something like '--' or \texttt{...} in
the headings, this is put like plaintext into the bookmarks
too. Ok, for the dashes that's not a real problem, but the 'exttt'
that appeares in between the text is annoying.
1E) Enumerate always produces the numbers in black.
Fred Labrosse reported the bug and provided the following patch:
\def\enumerate{%
\ifnum \@enumdepth >\thr@@\@toodeep\else
\advance\@enumdepth\@ne
\edef\@enumctr{enum\romannumeral\the\@enumdepth}%
\expandafter
\list
\csname label\@enumctr\endcsname
{\usecounter\@enumctr\def\makelabel##1{\hss\llap{\fontText ##1}}}%
\fi}
\let\endenumerate =\endlist
\newcommand{\startFontText}{%
\ifinColor\@fontTextColor\else\@fontTextBW\fi\selectfont}
\renewcommand*{\descriptionlabel}[1]{\hspace\labelsep
\startFontText\bfseries #1}
It appear to be a general problem that a number of commands does not
respect the color setting. Before patching all the commands, we
should ensure that it does not have to do with the fact that we are
not using color.
1F) Auctex style
Developed and mailed on the mailing list. Furthermore, PMN has some
possible additions.
1G) Compatibility with color
The following is provided by David C Sterratt (after discussions
with PMN)
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{\ifinColor\@fontTextColor\else\@fontTextBW\fi}
\makeatother
\documentclass[...]{prosper}
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{\global\let\reset@color=\orig@reset@color}
\makeatother
Furthermore, semcolor should be asked to load color instead of
pstricks. That might turn out to be the tricky part.
1H) Compatibility with listing
There are some incompatibilities with the listing package, Fred
Labrosse seems to know what is needed.
The bug has also been reported on SourceForge as
[ 542507 ] Error with listing.sty
When I try to use listings.sty version 1.0 with prosper, I get an
error:
(c:/TeX/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls
Document Class: prosper 2000/11/02, v. 1.0h
[...]
! Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\unhbox
l.11 \lstinline|
Protokoll|
The used example:
\documentclass[frames,ps]{prosper}
\usepackage{listings}[2002/04/01 1.0]%Fehler
\lstset{language=[R/3 4.6C]{ABAP}}
% -----------------------------------------------------
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{Klassenansatz}
\lstinline|Protokoll|
\end{slide}
\end{document}
With version 0.21 (listing.sty) it worked fine.
I informed Carsten Heinz (author of listings.sty) about the
problem.
Any idea from here how to solve the problem?
1I) Handling of long slide titles
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:00:56 -0700 (PDT), "Markus, Janos"
<markusja@ece.orst.edu> reported
have another question - when a slide title goes on to the next line,
instead of the whole title going being shown, the whole title shifts
upwards a little - as a result the first line of the title gets
partially obscured - is there any way to fix this?
and later provided the following solution
Look into the style file you use (PPRxxxx.sty).
There is the following definition:
\def\slidetitle#1{\rput[lb](0.3,3.8){%
\parbox{10cm}{\fontTitle{\baselineskip=0pt #1}}}}
You might want to rename the style file (e.g. to mystyle.sty) and then
modify the optional parameters of \rput. After thet, you have to modify
the coordinates, too.
Opt. parameters of \rput (refer to the pstricks manual)
l reference-point on the left side
r right side
t top
b bottom
B baseline
So, [lt] will set the reference-point of the title in the left upper
corner, so if the size of the box changes, it won't move up. Accordingly,
you have to modify the initial coordinates.
E.g. if you want to have your title not to shift up (the coordinates are
not adjusted exactly):
\def\slidetitle#1{\rput[lt](0.3,4){%
\parbox{10cm}{\fontTitle{\baselineskip=0pt #1}}}}
1J) Patches to PPRdarkblue
Martin Bernreuther <Martin.Bernreuther@po.uni-stuttgart.de> reported
the following on Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:37:30 +0200
Looking at
PPRdarkblue.sty (line 93f):
\ifinColor
\myitem{1}{\includegraphics[width=.4cm]{red-bullet-on-blue.ps}}
\myitem{2}{\includegraphics[width=.3cm]{green-bullet-on-blue.ps}}
\myitem{3}{\includegraphics[width=.3cm]{yellow-bullet-on-blue.ps}}
\else
\myitem{1}{\includegraphics[width=.4cm]{red-bullet-on-white.ps}}
\myitem{2}{\includegraphics[width=.3cm]{green-bullet-on-white.ps}}
\myitem{3}{\includegraphics[width=.3cm]{yellow-bullet-on-white.ps}}
\fi
IMHO line 93 should be
\ifcolorBG
rather than
\ifinColor
If you choose slideColor combined with nocolorBG you will
see bullets with blue instead of white background in the
first case.
There is still a problem with the combination
colorBG and slideBW, since the background is processed
like nocolorBG but the flag is set to colorBG.
Maybe slideBW should also set \colorBGfalse in prosper.cls
or the background should be colored in this case.
Is there a possibility to use images with transparent background?
I always adjust the background of my images to the background,
which is some work and has to be redone if the position changes.
Is something similar needed to the other style files.
1K) \slideparskip (or \parskip)
The following two bug reports are from SourceForge
\slideparskip ignored:
To globally set the parskip, you are supposed to
redefine \slideparskip with the seminar class.
This doesn't work with prosper.
It seems that the minpage environment resets the
parskip value. I fixed this by inserting
\sem@ptsize{\slide@ptsize}
at 3 places in prosper.cls, after the lines
\ifinColor\@fontTextColor\else\@fontTextBW\fi
in SlideNormal and SlideOverlay.
Unable to set parskip globally:
Since the slides are set in a minipage, the values of
\parskip and \parindent (as well as some other
parameters) are reset to zero on every slide.
Effectively, there is no way to control the paragraph
distance globally.
One option would be to ``borrow'' the \slideparskip,
\slideparindent, etc from the underlying seminar class
and set the values of \parskip, etc to these values
after opening the minipage
Another bug fix is by Joe B. Wells:
% The following looniness makes Prosper pay attention to
% \slideparskip.
\newcommand{\Glork}[2][R]
{\Gleep[#1]{#2}%
\setlength{\parskip}{\slideparskip}}
\let\origSlideNormal=\SlideNormal
\renewcommand{\SlideNormal}
{\let\Gleep=\origSlideNormal
\Glork}
\let\slide=\SlideNormal
\let\origSlideOverlay=\SlideOverlay
\renewcommand{\SlideOverlay}
{\let\Gleep=\origSlideOverlay
\Glork}
1L) Font encoding on title slide
From a bug report on SourceForge
There is a problem with font encodings on the title
slide: My `umlaut's get lost in title, institution,
etc.
This seems to come from the \normalfont call in
\maketitle which seems to get confused. I managed to
work around this by putting a
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{...}
in my PPR file.
1M) \label in overlays
From Marco Lombardi at SourceForge:
\label ouside overlays
Apperently, \label and related macros are not working if overlays
are not active. I am not totally sure why is this happening. In
any case I have modified the definition of \label into
\def\label#1{%
\ifInOverlays
\ifnum\value{overlaysCount}>1
\else
\Label{#1}
\fi
\else
\Label{#1}
\fi
}
thus adding a new \else block at the end. I guess that a similar
change is neede for \label@in@display (and perhaps for other
macros).
1N) Frames style: up-and-down movement
The following has been reported on SourceForge:
When using the "frames" style, the title vertical position is
referenced to the lower edge of the bounding box rather than to
the baseline. This results in the titles moving up and down
depending on whether there are descenders or not.
Solution: Anchor a \makebox{} using it's baseline (can't use a
parbox, since they don't have baselines):
\newcommand{\slidetitle}[1]{%
\rput[rB](11.6,3.6){%
\makebox{\fontTitle{#1}}}}
1O) Logo Placement
From SourceForge
[ 513255 ] Logo Placement
When you try to include a logo, either with Logo(,){} or with
defining a new style:
- the logo never appears anywhere else but in the downleft corner
(no matter the coordinates you give)
- the whole slide loses, at the right hand side, space equal to
the width of the included Logo
I include my logo with \resizebox{x}{x}{\includegraphics}
1P) Title disappears in darkblue w/ slideBW
From SourceForge
[ 520709 ] Title disappears in darkblue w/ slideBW
When using the darkblue style, and attempting to make printable
slides (using slideBW), the first-slide title seems to be
gone. The reason is that the title font is white, and when using
slideBW the background of the first slide is white as well. The
title actually appears, but is invisible.
The solution is to make title text for slideBW, by the following
change in PPRdarkblue.sty.
What was before
\FontTitle{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont%
\lightgray}{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont%
\white}
is changed to
\ifinColor
\FontTitle{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont%
\lightgray}{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont%
\white}
\else
\FontTitle{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont}{%
\usefont{T1}{ptm}{b}{n}\fontsize{20.74pt}{20pt}\selectfont}
\fi
1Q) ifInOverlays value not set to false
From SourceForge
[ 557345 ] ifInOverlays value not set to false
The overlay command does not appear to set the
ifInOverlays value back to false after the overlays in
version 1.00.4. This causes the \stepcounter and
\refstepcounter commands to not increment the counter.
I propose the line "\InOverlaysfalse" should be added
just before the final "}" and after the "\fi" in the
definition of overlays. This appears to fix the problem.
1R) parentheses in bookmark string
Reported on SourceForge:
[ 582610 ] parentheses in bookmark string
Unbalanced parentheses in bookmark string cause troubles. The
uploaded patch will fix the problem.
1S) Title placement depends on title text
Reported by spizkapa on SourceForge:
[ 583840 ] Title placement depends on title text
I think I've found a bug in the code. If one makes two slides one
with title "hello" and one with title "go home", the first slide
title will be placed higher than the second one. This is due to
the letter 'g' hanging off the bottom of the line. It may not be a
big problem for A4 slides but if you enlarge them (with psresize
or poster) the difference if more obvious.
The obvious solution is to use \vspace{-xxpt} to bring the titles
to the same level. This may be implementable generically in the
package but I'm unsure how one would go about it.
1T) Automatic counting of number of overlays
Joe B. Wells has provided the following patch which determines the
number of overlays needed from the \fromSlide, \onlySlide, and
\untilSlide on the slide:
\newcounter{currentOverlay}
\newcounter{maxOverlay}
% \recordOverlay{n} tells \overlayslide that overlay n exists.
\newcommand{\recordOverlay}[1]
{\ifnum #1>\value{maxOverlay}\relax
\setcounter{maxOverlay}{#1}%
\fi}
% All material after \step appears on the next and subsequent
% overlays. This also tells \overlayslide that the overlays exist.
\newcommand{\step}
{\StepCounter{currentOverlay}%
\recordOverlay{\value{currentOverlay}}%
\FromSlide{\thecurrentOverlay}}
% This command should probably not exist. Don't use it. Just write
% \step\item where needed.
\newcommand{\stepitem}{\step\item}
% All material after \FromOverlay{n} (until the next such command)
% will appear on overlay n and all later overlays. This also tells
% \overlayslide that overlay n exists.
\newcommand{\FromOverlay}[1]{\recordOverlay{#1}\FromSlide{#1}}
% \overlayslide{XYZ}{...} is like doing
% \overlays{n}{\begin{slide}{XYZ}...\end{slide}} except that you can
% also use the \step and \FromOverlay commands defined just above and
% the value of n will be automatically determined from the uses of
% \step and \FromOverlay.
\long\def\overlayslide#1#2%
{% #1 is TITLE
% #2 is BODY
\global\InOverlaystrue % we already _are_ global!!!
\aftergroup\InOverlaysfalse % this seems completely daft!
\setcounter{overlaysCount}{1}%
\setcounter{maxOverlay}{1}%
\ifDVItoPS
\setcounter{currentOverlay}{1}
\begin{slide}{#1}
#2%
\par\hbox{}% bizarre hack which works around strange Prosper problem
\end{slide}
\else
\begin{Overlays}
\bgroup
\loop
\setcounter{currentOverlay}{1}%
\begin{slide}{#1}%
#2%
\par\hbox{}% bizarre hack which works around strange Prosper problem
\end{slide}%
\ifnum\value{overlaysCount}<\value{maxOverlay}\relax
\StepCounter{overlaysCount}%
\repeat
\egroup
\end{Overlays}
\fi}
1U) description and enumerate nesting with \itemsep
From Frédéric Goualard's TODO: Do the same thing for description and
enumerate as for itemize to prevent a bug when nesting them in an
itemsep environment
2A) Support for vtex
support for VTeX. Up to now, the one provided with the VTeX
distribution has been written by some guys at VTeX, which means that
it is likely they are providing an out-of-date version by now.
2B) A letter size mode
Also reported on SourceForge
[ 423834 ] Support for letter size
My understanding is that prosper supports only A4 paper size. It
would be nice to support letter size as well so that we in the
U.S. can use it too.
2C) Remove extra movement in overlays
On 04 Jun 2002 22:27:38 +0200, Ulrik Buchholtz <ulrikb@gmx.net>
reported the following
I'm using prosper version 1.00.4 with turtleturtle's 2001-07-16
overlays patch. I want to have overlays showing incremental work on an
equation. However, sometimes there is an unwanted movement of
already present material. See the difference between page one and two
in the following minimal example:
----------------------------
\documentclass[pdf]{prosper}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\overlays{2}{
\begin{slide}{Simple example}
\begin{align*}
a &\fromSlide{1}{=b} \\
&\fromSlide{2}{=d}
\end{align*}
\end{slide}
}
\end{document}
----------------------------
Notice how the first line of the equation moves to left from page one
to page two. (I'm viewing the resulting pdf-file with acroread 4.05
for linux, but I don't think that has any importance.)
For more complicated settings the effect can be a bit greater.
I hope that it is clear what I want to do. Is there a better way to do
it or is there a work-around for this apparent bug?
2D) pst-node node connections in overlays
Micha reported the following incompatibility with pst-node of
pstricks:
theres an error displaying overlays containing node connections
when the symbolic name of a node
(rnode{foo}{stuff},rode{bar}{stuff}) is given in a slide before
the node connection itself (ncline{foo}{bar}). Actually the line
is drawn as soon as the first rnode is available giving me a line
from the infinit upper left to the defined point.
By now pst-node is not usable together with prosper.
2E) Graphics rotation rotates the whole slide
The following is reported by Joerg:
I am using prosper with the graphicx package and it works well. But when
I want to include an eps-file with the following command
\includegraphics[angle=90,width=\textwidth]{file.eps}
^^^^^
not only file.eps is rotated but the complete slide. The same occures
when I use the rotating package in combination with the sideways
enviroment and the includegraphics instruction.
This is also reported on SourceForge
[ 517880 ] rotating graphics
Rotating graphics with the graphicx like
\includegraphics[angle=90]{file}
or the sideways envrioment (rotating package) turns not only the
graphic but the whole slide.
2F) Color broken in center environment
The following is reported on SourceForge
Color broken in center environment
\begin{center}
\color{blue} text
\end{center}
produces black text, not blue (see attached example file). Somehow
a special "ps: 0. setgray" finds its way into the dvi-file in
front of "text".
2G) Shifted right or cropped
The following has been reported on SourceForge. I might not be
reproducible since it could be due to local misconfiguration:
RedHat 7.2
teTeX 1.0.7
gnu ghostscript 6.51
acroread 4.05
dvips -Ppdf -G0
ps2pdf <no options>
It appears that the entire slide is shifted right
or cropped.
Building the prosper-tour slides results in the caption running
off the right margin at the "/" the "total pages" number is
off-page. The pre-compiled prosper-tour.pdf files display fine.
It's OK when looking at the .ps file with gv, but looking at the
.pdf file with either acroread or xpdf chops off the right side of
the page.
Are the options to ps2pdf that need to be specified?
2H) problems with newest hyperref
The following is reported on SourceForge
problems with newest hyperref?:
I have just installed the newest hyperref package
[2001/04/05 v6.71e
Hypertext links for LaTeX]
and the newest prosper. I have problems with the
contemporain style and an old presentation, I made two
months ago. The problem occurs with the example.tex
from the prosper class.
>From the log:
! Undefined control sequence.
<recently read> \@secondoffive
2I) Color and makeindex
The following bug report is taken from SourceForge
(later version) color-package and prosper
if I use this directive in the preambel
\usepackage{color}
the titel on the page created with
\makeindex
is always black.
Has anyone solved this?
2J) Misalignments with tabular environments
The following is submitted by Pietro Braione
(braione@elet.polimi.it) on SourceForge
[ 484291 ] Misalignments with tabular environments
When \onlySlide / \onlySlide* are used inside a \tabular
environment, it results in vertical misalignments and differences
between the formatting of the overlays, which make the animation
look bad. An example is enclosed.
It might be solvable with the patches PMN has done to the slides and
overlays.
2K) math is not longer displayed using gs 6.
Uwe Brauer reported the following bug on SourceForge
[ 497606 ] math is not longer displayed using gs 6.
I am using prosper-1.04 for a while, together with ghoscript 6.02
and fonts version 6.5 pre complied from ahobe. I did not have any
problems so far, but todaz for the first time I discovered that in
the pdf file the mat symbols are presented by a simple line.
It is not a fault of my acrobat reader, since the file
prosper-tour.pdf get displayed correctly. However when the
underlying tex file is compiled math get displayed correctly in
the ps file, when converting it to pdf via ps2pdf, then gv
displays math correctly but not acrobat reader.
I am completly sunned by this. Any help would be strongly
recommend since I want to present a lecture using prosper within
10 days.
2L) Multiple pictures and a white box
Pau reported the following on SourceForge
[ 492503 ] Multiple pictures and a white box
I am trying to create a slide which uses the autumn background
with the prosper package and has several postscript files on the
same slide.
To make the pictures clear, I added a white box and inserted the
figues using the tabular command. The latex syntax is as follows
\overlays{1}{%
\begin{slide}{\small Dispersive Considerations 1 $h$
refinement}
\onlySlide*{1}{
\setlength{\unitlength}{1in}
\begin{center}
\colorbox{white}{\makebox(3,2.5)[t]{
\begin{tabular}{cc}
{\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1.2in,keepaspectratio=true]{disper1hq.eps}}
&
{\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1.2in,keepaspectratio=true]{disper0.5hq.eps}}
\\
\hbox{$h=1$} & \hbox{$h=0.5$} \\
{\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1.2in,keepaspectratio=true]{disper0.25hq.eps}}
&
{\includegraphics[height=1in,width=1.2in,keepaspectratio=true]{disper0.125hq.eps}}
\\
\hbox{$h=0.25$} & \hbox{$h=0.125$}
\end{tabular}}}
\end{center}}%
\end{slide}}
The slide appears fine in the normal view of acrobat reader,
however, when I change to full screen mode, additional black lines
appear and the figures are no longer visible.
When I use only one postscript file, set against a white
background I do not get this problem....
2M) Incompatibility with french
As kindly reminded as a bug report on SourceForge
[ 505884 ] Bug with « french »
How correct the bug with the package french of B. Gaulle ?
2N) Incorrect math alignment
The following is reported by Angela on SourceForge:
[ 506787 ] incorrect math alignment
Math formulas involving subscripts are not typeset correctly. The
PS file generated has correct formatting. The PDF file created
with ps2pdf does not.
The problem appears to truly belong to Prosper, since the same
LaTeX formulae processed using, e.g. amsart class are typeset
correctly both in PS and PDF.
Example: compare the output of the following latex code under
Prosper and under amsart.cls.
Under Prosper:
---------clip here------------------------------
\documentclass[total,pdf,slideColor,colorBG,darkblue]{prosper}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{example}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\exp\left(\frac{c_{pa}}{V}\,A\right)\\
&\exp\left(\frac{c_{ap}}{V}\,A\right)\\
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}
\end{slide}
\end{document}
-------clip here--------------------------------
Under amslatex:
--------clip here-------------------------------
\documentclass[final]{amsart}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{aligned}
&\exp\left(\frac{c_{pa}}{V}\,A\right)\\
&\exp\left(\frac{c_{ap}}{V}\,A\right)\\
\end{aligned}
\end{equation*}
\end{document}
--------clip here--------------------------------
Everything is as it should be in both the Prosper and amslatex PS
files and in the PDF generated from the amslatex PS file
(generated by ps2pdf). The PDF created from the Prosper file is
not typeset correctly.
Any work around or bug fix would be very much appreciated. Despite
this small but annoying bug, I must offer you my sincere
congratulations and many thanks for this fine software!
[ 564909 ] incorrect math alignment
I am having a problem already reported in January about math
alignment in prosper as shown in the attached file. The postscript
file is perfect and the problem appears whan I use ps2pdf.
In the old bug report there was a follow up saying that dvipdf
solves the problem but in my case it did not. I am using Debian
packages:
gs 6.53-3
gs-common 0.3.3
dvipdfm 0.13.2-3
prosper 1.00.4-4
I would be very grateful if somebody could suggest a way around
this problem
\documentclass[%
pdf,
colorBG,
slideColor,
frames
]{prosper}
\usepackage{amsmath,pstricks}
\def\npp{N_{{\uparrow}{\uparrow}}}
\def\npm{N_{{\uparrow}{\downarrow}}}
\def\nmp{N_{{\downarrow}{\uparrow}}}
\def\nmm{N_{{\downarrow}{\downarrow}}}
\def\nppo{\overline{N_{\uparrow\uparrow}}}
\def\npmo{\overline{N_{\uparrow\downarrow}}}
\def\nmpo{\overline{N_{\downarrow\uparrow}}}
\def\nmmo{\overline{N_{\downarrow\downarrow}}}
\def\set{\sigma_{et}}
\def\se{\sigma_{e}}
\def\st{\sigma_{t}}
\def\so{\sigma_{0}}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{Asymmetries definition}
\psellipse[linecolor=red](2.8,-1.0)(1.8,0.9)
\psellipse[linecolor=green](3.0,-2.7)(1.3,0.75)
\psellipse[linecolor=magenta](2.5,-4.4)(1.4,0.85)
\begin{small}
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
{\red
A_e\sim\frac{\se+\se^N}{\so+\so^N}}=\frac{(\npp-\nmp)+(\npm-\nmm)}{(\npp+\nmp)+(\npm+\nmm)}\\[5mm]
{\red
A_t=\frac{\st}{\so}}=\frac{1}{f}\frac{(\npp+\nmp)-(\npm+\nmm)}{(\npp+\nmp)+(\npm+\nmm)}\\[5mm]
{\red
A_{et}=\frac{\set}{\so}}=\frac{1}{f}\frac{-(\npp-\nmp)+(\npm-\nmm)}{(\npp+\nmp)+(\npm+\nmm)}
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
\end{small}
\end{slide}
\end{document}
PMN: one reason to this bug might be the fact that Prosper uses very
large fonts. Even when using postscript for the text, the math
fonts are still taken from Computer Modern which are not
scalable. So for large fonts, the correct font sizes for sub and
superscripts does not exist and LaTeX does some quite heavy font
substitutions (I've seen up to 1.26 pt). If this is the case, the
solution might be to provide an option to ask LaTeX to generate the
font sizes in tighter sizes.
2O) Repeated chars before subscript skip one
Ric has reported the following on SourceForge
[ 507134 ] repeated chars before subscript skip one
This may be related to bug #506787.
The following code produces correct ps, but in pdf one
of the A chars is missing. This only occurs with
matching chars (i.e. A A_X, but not A B_X).
\documentclass{prosper}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{}
\[
A A_X
\]
\end{slide}
\end{document}
prosper.cls has CVS id prosper.cls,v 1.5. Other versions:
tetex-1.0.7
ghostscript-6.51
PDF is generated with pstopdf or dvipdf.
2P) \scalebox does not take 2 arguments
From SourceForge
[ 523856 ] \scalebox does not take 2 arguments
When using prosper, I cannot do smth like:
\usepackage{pstricks}
...
\scalebox{1 -1} {..}
It seems that \scalebox agrees to take only one parameter. It
works fine with ever other class. As a result I cannot use Dia
pstricks export.
2Q) Problem with prosper and \psgrid
Reported by Christoph on SourceForge
[ 551407 ] problem with prosper and \psgrid
I have a problem with prosper.cls and pstricks.sty: \psgrid does
not work, LaTeX reports an error and the resulting postscript file
is broken. With article.cls everything works fine. Please help.
I use prosper version:
======================
\typeout{CVSId: $Id: TODO,v 1.6 2002/08/05 14:47:04 turtleturtle Exp $}
The error message is:
=====================
! Undefined control sequence.
\GenericError ...
#4
\errhelp \@err@ ...
l.15 \end
{pspicture}
?
demonstration:
==============
\documentclass{prosper}
%\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}{test}
This is a test.
\end{slide}
\begin{slide}{psgrid}
\begin{pspicture}(-5,-5)(5,5)
\psgrid(-5,-5)(5,5)
\end{pspicture}
\end{slide}
\end{document}
2R) Problem with final PDF
From SourceForge
[ 531947 ] problem with final PDF
I have the diagram described below in my slides. When I compile the
slides into postscript, it looks OK, but once I turn it into PDF, the
middle arrow becomes slanted and the text within the second box breaks
into two parts.
An additional problem is that the PDFtransition command seems to have
no effect.
Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem ?
$
\begin{array}{c@{\hskip 2cm}c}
\hskip 2cm
\rnode{model}{\psframebox[linecolor=white,linewidth=.05,framesep=.5,framearc=.3]{\white Model}}
&
\rnode{sample}{\psframebox[linecolor=white,linewidth=.05,framesep=.5]{\white\mbox{$Sample$}}}
\end{array}
\ncline[linecolor=white,arrowsize=7pt]{->}{model}{sample}
\ncbar[arm=1cm,linecolor=white,arrowsize=7pt,linearc=.2,angle=-90]{<-}{model}{sample}
\aput{:U}{\rnode{learn}{\mbox{\small Learning}}}
$
2S) Problem with epsfig or includegraphics
Olli J. Marttila submitted the following on SourceForge
[ 476863 ] problem with epsfig or includegraphics
problem with epsfig or includegraphics I am using prosper for creating
slides for examination paper answers. Answers in question are written
in LaTeX and printed without problems. The material has been divided
in blocks suitable to be transferred on slides. There is no problem to
create text slides but there are figures, both in .eps and in .pdf
form, that do not translate. Text in question follows:
\begin{slide}{Fotonisäteilyn vaimeneminen \\
ja elektronienergian kasvu}
\begin{list}{}{}
\item[e. ]
%\includegraphics[0mm,0mm][90mm,100mm]{kuva2071.eps}%
%\includegraphics[0mm,0mm][90mm,100mm]{kuva2072.eps}
\epsfig{file=kuva2071.eps,height=8cm}
\epsfig{file=kuva2072.eps,height=8cm}
\end{list}
\end{slide}
The preamble is as follows:
\documentclass[a4paper,ps,slideBW,nocolorBG,rico,dvips]
{prosper}
\usepackage[finnish]{babel}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath,epsfig}
The .dvi file cannot be shown; instead an error message
PostScript problem
GhostScript error
is displayed.
I repeat, that a similar error message is not
displayed when the conventional text slides a created;
only on this one does not play.
2T) Output rotation
From SourceForge
[ 532877 ] Output rotation
I tried to do a presentation with prosper and it did not work. I'm
using teTeX, dvips -Ppdf, ps2pdf on Mandrake 8.1 with Acrobat 4 as
my viewer. The typefaces come out OK, but every slide is slightly
off center and rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
2U) Error displaying ps file in Yap
By David Scott onSourceForge
[ 489794 ] Error displaying ps file in Yap
I am using miktex 2.1 with WinEdt 5 and Windows 98. I have
gathered all the files I need so that I can latex my prosper
slides. This appears to work without any problems.
However when I try and view the dvi produced I get the message:
Loading page 1...
bad pa special
unimplemented special: papersize=210mm,297mm
phvbo8r: checksum mismatch
32: no glyph!
phvr8r: checksum mismatch
32: no glyph!
phvr8r: checksum mismatch
32: no glyph!
Sending C:\Program Files\texmf\dvips\base\tex.pro...
c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\gs7.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
-I"c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\gs7.00\lib;c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\fonts"
-r85.714286x85.714286 -g708x1001 -sDEVICE=bmp256 -q -DBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
-sOutputFile=andle -start: c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\gs7.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
-I"c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\gs7.00\lib;c:\progra~1\gstools\gs7.00\fonts"
-r85.714286x85.714286 -g708x1001 -sDEVICE=bmp256 -q -DBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
-sOutputFile=%handle%24 -
Sending C:\Program Files\texmf\dvips\base\special.pro...
creating bitmap file C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\mikD0C2.TMP
wrote 0 bytes
Error: PostScript problem:
GhostScript error
I am using Yap 0.98n for viewing the dvi files.
I am able to use the same latex file to produce dvi, postscript
and pdf on our sun solaris machine.
2V) \vfill and \vspace*{\fill}
The following bug has been reported by Nicolas Malandain
<Nicolas.Malandain@insa-rouen.fr> on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:13:08 +0100
I don't know why but the latex command \vfill or \vspace*{\fill}
doesn't work with prosper. Any idea ?
3A) Figure number when using caption
J.G. Zhou <J.G.Zhou@mmu.ac.uk> reported (Fri, 14 Sep 2001 09:53:01
+0100) the following:
I used the prosper.cls which is great. However, I got a little
problem figures in my slide file -- use of
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{foo.ps}
\caption{foo}
\label{foo.ps}
\eng{figure}
always generates a caption as "Fig. 0", no matter how many
figures are included in myslide.tex.
Fred Labrosse suggested the following, which I am however not sure
is correct. In particular, note that the figure environment is
used above.
This is not a prosper problem but a LaTeX feature. \caption is
meant to be used in figure (and others) environment and uses a
counter incremented in this environment. Since you don't use
the figure environment, the relevant counter is not incremented
and keeps its value of 0.
2 solutions. The first is to use the figure environment but I
doubt you really want to since it is a floating environment (and
I am not even sure it is defined in prosper). The other one is
to increment the counter: \refstepcounter{figure} before using
\caption.
Final comments from J.G. Zhou
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried it. Unfortunately, none
work for me. Also I noticed one difference between pdf and ps
mode for slide. What I mean is that if
\documentclass[pdf,...]{prosper} is used, the \caption always
generates "Figure 0:...". However, if
\documentclass[ps,...]{prosper}, \caption works fine. So I don't
understand what causes this problem. Could you got any idea or
clue?
4A) \inslides Command
a command combining the functionality of \fromSlide, \onlySlide, and
\untilSlide with a more flexible way to specify the pattern.
Something like
\inSlides{-3,5-6,8,10-}{text appearing on various overlyas}
Of course, this should also appear in a starred version
4B) A portrait mode
4C) A notes mode
In the style of seminar
4D) Generalize \itemstep
The formatting used by the command should be made more user
customizable, e.g., by introducing \itemstepCurrentStart and
\itemstepCurrentEnd. These commands should both take one argument:
the item's number.
The current behavior of \itemstep would then be achieved using
\renewcommand{\itemstepCurrentStart}[1]{\FromSlide{#1}}
\renewcommand{\itemstepCurrentEnd}[1]{}
While highlighting the current item could be achieved with
\renewcommand{\itemstepCurrentStart}[1]{\color{highlight}}
\renewcommand{\itemstepCurrentEnd}[1]{\color{normal}}
4E) Formatting options to commands
Similar in style to 4D the functionality and the formatting of the
prosper commands should be divided. There should be a standard way
to each command to change the formatting. This can be compared to
the hacks of emacs functions.
4F) Turn of slide number
The following has been requested by Richard Sudarmono <iye@gmx.de>
on Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:08:01 +0100
could anybody tell me, how can I get rid of the slide number? (I
find only the 'total' & 'nototal' option, which don't help to
solve the problem).
4G) Optional hyphenation
Some people want to have hyphenation in the slides. To do this the
effect of raggedright should be canceled.
4H) Navigation buttons
Some people would like navigation buttons to navigate through the
slides.
An alternative suggestion is by Pedro Jorge Caridade
<caridade@qta.qui.uc.pt> on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:24:12 +0000
Is it possible and in a simple way to overpass several layers in
one slide by, for example, clicking on the slide title. (If it was
just one slide it's ease with the nexpage command).
4I) Placement and form of slide number
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:07:00 -0500, "Luis A Escobar" <luis@lsu.edu>
asked the following suggestion:
Has somebody done the work of modifying prosper.cls to modify the
placement of the slide number?
I would like to create a slide number of the type chapter # -
slide #, i.e., 10-22, chapter 10 slide 22. Also i would like to
get rid off the "-p" that shows with the slide number.
And the following is requested by Stephen Eglen on SourceForge:
Option to remove slide caption?
many thanks for providing prosper. I just used it to create my
first presentation. I was just wondering though if there is an
easy way to remove the \slidecaption in the bottom right corner? I
could find an option to not include the total page numbers, but
how do I remove both the caption and the page count? For now I
commented out the line in prosper.cls that writes the caption, but
that seems a bit drastic!
4J) Global options
It should be possible to provide other than prosper's. Since the
consensus appear to be that style files start with PPR, that could
be achieved by testing whether a file PPR<option> exists. If not,
the options is passed as a global option.
4K) Dimensions in PROSPER
The following is a bug report from SourceForge
I am trying to make a new style file for PROSPER. However I have seen
that the dimensions used are scaled by a factor of 2. For example, if
I want to put a Logo at the position (-1.0 cm, -1.0 cm) relating the
default base, I have to set the logo position to (-0.5, -0.5). I
thought that could be a problem with the dimensions of PSTricks (when
included) but I appears to be indpendent of
that.
4L) Long pages
Requested on SourceForge
[ 314296 ] Page formating of long pages
Unfortunately, prosper seems not to be able to handle
long pages correctly by inserting page breaks
automatically.
In the example given blow, a page break is inserted
after the 11. item. prosper does not insert such a page
break and in addition, the 12. item is not visible on
the slide and no error message is created.
Is there any chance, that the standard behaviour of the
seminar package can be added to prosper?
Response from Frédéric Goualard:
Hum... I do not remember what is exactly the original behaviour of
seminar in that case. I will have a look at that. However, I think
that slides are usually written on a "per-page" basis.
4M) In .dtx format with and .ins file
This is standard LaTeX. Possibly we should also upload it to CTAN.
4N) Remove use of \myitem
From Frédéric Goualard's TODO: get rid of \myitem{}{} to use a more
standard way of modifying bullets
4O) Graphic modeller
From Frédéric Goualard's TODO: a graphical modeller for easily
devising new Prosper styles (in [incr Tcl])
4P) Add control on \fromSlide and friends
From Frédéric Goualard's TODO: add control on parameters for macros
\fromSlide,....
4Q) Get rid of seminar
5A) Article option
This has been mentioned, but I'm not sure how this is different from
the notes mode.
5B) Hypermedia options
A number of people includes video clips. It might be convenient to
add some kind of general support for this.
5C) Features of prosper demo
After posting the Prosper demo somebody mentioned that some features
need to be incorporated. I have not checked what yet.
The demo is at http://www.mit.bme.hu/~markus/latex/prosper/demo.pdf
5D) Problems with glitter, blind, etc
There seems to be some confusion on how to get glitter, blind,
etc. to work. The following is reported on SourceForge:
glitter blind etc not working:
When i veiw the 'tour' i get the glitter effect but when i compile
locally myself i dont. Do i have an old version of something that
doesnt support this type of effect ?
And also
[ 529669 ] Transition effects doesnt work in 1.00.4
I have tried The transition effects in both Linux SuSE 6.2
"heavily" modified and FreeBSD 4.4 Release.
In both architectures the version 1.00.3 work perfectly, but
1.00.4 doesnt seem to produce the correct transition effects
5E) Acrobat 5.05 and prosper = no go
From SourceForege
[ 578762 ] Acrobat 5.05 and prosper = no go?
It seems that acrobat 5.05 and prosper doesn't get well
along... My system is a linux RH7.3. I downloaded prosper and
tried to compile the prosper-tour.tex, following the instruction,
and changing the style to "frames". Using acroread 4.05 the
documents is almost correctly presented (the lines on the
commutative diagrams are missing, and some math symbol is quite
pesky). But the same pdf file is impossible to read in acroread
5.05, having all the colors wrong in all the page but the
first. As a nice effects... now the only visible thing are the
lines on the commutative diagrams.
5F) As a Style File
Allow using Prosper as a style file instead of a class
file. Actually, this has already been done by a guy at INRIA who
offered me the code he had written.
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