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+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.