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  • Subject: Re: [BL] magicpoint
  • Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:13:06 +0000 (UTC)

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




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