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On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> 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.

I stick with links2 if I need to read other fonts online.

Do you have the relevant X fonts installed?
Does it work in the full Slackware?

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

Is there an Imake package?  I know nothing about recent linuxes.
Search Slackware 12 or 13 MANIFEST for the missing files?

> 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?

Never used it at all.  I don't even have X working except in English.
I use links2 -g svgalib to read online Cyrillic.

I stick with console fonts or links2 (svgalib) which has Cyrillic built in.

> 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?

bin/xmkmf is in Slackware 11.0 and 8.1 xfree.  'create Makefile from 
Imakefile'
I have never used Imake or xmkmf.

> 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.

Have not used magicpoint.  Is there a magicpoint forum, or a Slax forum?

I hope Steven can help you with magicpoint.  Thanks for your misplaced 
confidence in me anyway.


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

> Regards,
> Christof

Can you simply display HTML files directly, maybe using links2?


Sindi