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Hi Sindi, Steven and others, 

last weekend I was in the situation, that I had to produce 
a "powerpoint" presentation. I remembered that the best and 
only presentation tool that I would like to use is Magicpoint. 

Some years ago, I played with it in BL3 and even successfully 
compiled a newer version in BL1 (Slackware 3.5). That time I 
somehow  got it to run with a Czech (ISO-8859-2) font, too. 

Now I tried to use several newer binaries in my Slax environment. 
Documentation says that they would work with Japanese fonts, but I 
could not even get it to run with East European fonts. Also the 
contents display and inline display of console commands were 
missing - either the program did not find special fonts for this 
features or they were not compiled in. 

When I tried to compile a version of my own within the Slax system,
the compiler script complained about the lack of Imake utilities.

Sindi, I know you have been busy and quite successful with many 
localization problems: 

1. Have you ever attempted to use magicpoint for non-English 
presentations? Which fonts and font paths did you use in the BL 
version? 

2. Which files are necessary in order to compile with xmkmf and 
Imake? They seem to be scattered throughout the huge X packets 
in Slackware. Is there a way to pick them out and put them into a 
smaller packet? 

3. Have you ever tried to adapt magicpoint to your alternative 
BL kernel and library configuration? Naturally the functional 
magicpoint version from BL 3.5 does not work in my present 
environment. 

Of course Kpresenter and OpenOffice will do the job. But I would 
really prefer editing text and simple conversion from/to HTML. 

Regards, 
Christof

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Christof Lange, Evangelical Theological Seminary of Prague
Stolinska 41a, 193 00 Praha 9 - Horni Pocernice, Czech Republic
phone: (+420) 777 893 292 - e-mail: christof.lange AT etspraha.cz