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Thomas Fauster

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2015, 04:07:53 pm »
Mike,

I just verified that the beamer example works with pgf 1.18 using VTeX/2 8.44d (see attachment). With pgf 2.00 or 3.00 I can reproduce the error you reported. The error appears when GeX is started, so it seems to be VTeX related. On the MicroPress website it says
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VTeX 8.6 is here. New features include support for Beamer and PGF packages
. This indicates that something was changed in VTeX for the newer pgf versions.
With VTeX/2 8.44 we have to stick with pgf 1.18, but I am not aware of any serious limitations regarding the beamer package.

Mike La Martina

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2015, 04:18:26 pm »
Thanks for the update.  Since the beginning of the quarter I have not had much time to work with this.
Perhaps some intrepid developer might consider a port of the latest VTex.  I am surprised and grateful that I can do as much Tex as I can on OS/2.  The ports of Texmaker and Texstudio both work well for me.

Mike La Martina

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2015, 09:23:19 pm »
I have discovered the foiltex package.  While it is not a full replacement for beamer, it does produce foils quite well.

Thomas Fauster

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2015, 10:24:20 am »
I got it working now with the modified and attached pgfsys-vtex.def
Just added three \immediate as described in the discussion there:
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-vtex/2007-March/000848.html
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-vtex/2007-March/000849.html

Could someone verify the fix, so it can be fed to the pgf project on sourceforge?

Mike La Martina

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2015, 05:08:59 am »
I have just installed the def file and successfully compiles all beamer tests I have in my directory.

Thanks Thomas

Mike

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #20 on: February 05, 2015, 11:23:26 pm »
Thank you, Thomas and Mike. I have saved your contributions and will test that when I'll have my new machine ready and when I'll find enough time to get my TeX environment set up again.

Please note that I'm the maintainer of NEPMD and that I have contributed much to Walter's last version 5.4 of his TeX front end.

Thomas Fauster

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2015, 03:18:13 pm »
I have filed a bug report on tikz/pgf@sourceforge. Lets see what happens.

TeX and LaTex is indispensable for scientific and mathematical publishing and runs on most platforms. The beamer package https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home can generate presentations and the pgf package http://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf provides support for generating graphics. Here are some comments on TeX systems for OS/2:

VTeX has not been updated since 2005 http://micropress-inc.com/, but it is afaik the only TeX system supporting direct PDF output on OS/2 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/vtex. The possibility to include many graphics formats, postscript and PDF makes it superior to the standard TeXLive distributions avaliable for windows or linux which support only jpg, png and PDF or alternatively only postscript. I have never tried the 2007 TeXlive port for OS/2 http://homepage1.nifty.com/jsawa/os2/index-e.htm.
There is also the ancient emTeX distribution for OS/2 http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/os2/emtex, but that supports only postscript graphics.For PDF conversion Ghostscript is needed and I am not sure that it fully supports navigation in the PDF output as implemented in the beamer package .

EPM can be configured to support TeX systems similar to an IDE. I used EPMTeX http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/os2/epmtex. TeX front end based on NEPMD is an alternative. On Linux I use TeXStudio now which is certainly more advanced than an EPM extensions. An OS/2 port is available.

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2015, 09:02:46 pm »
I have used the TeXLive port (os2teTeX 3.0), which can output directly to pdf using pdftex, with TeXMaker for several years now. It works fine in my experience. I'm interested in using Beamer but haven't tried yet. I'll post if/when I get it working.

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2015, 04:31:56 pm »
Hi Pete.  I will try TeTex.  Thanks.

Andreas Schnellbacher

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Re: VTex and Beamer
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2015, 07:03:35 pm »
Back in 2006 I'd tried to install OS2teTeX 3.0, but just shortly and without success.

It's apparently not easy to install without experience with teTeX on Linux. Christian H. had it successfully working, but I never took the time to try it again. Beamer was the reason I'd tried it and I know it works with it.