[Eyecatcher-general] Re: Debian "eyecatcher" Project

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:30:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:11:27PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > > > But this is no problem of latex-beamer ...
> > > > 
> > > > How about using HTML (with a lot of ugly ECMAscript) and
> > > > Firefox in full screen as viewer?
> > > 
> > > When the problem is "No magicpoint available" converting this to
> > > "no firefox available", how does this help at all?
> > > 
> > > Most computers have a PDF viewer these days, so providing a
> > > presentation as PDF files has some advantages.  However, if it only
> > > runs fine in non-free software, that's not the way Debian should
> > > proceed.
> > 
> > What about using advi ? It is a dvi presentation viewer, and the prefered
> > format is .tex stuff, so it should be open enough. Not sure if it does what is
> > needed here though.
> 
> When the problem is "No magicpoint available" or "no firefox available",
> how does converting this to "no advi available" help at all?

Well. was reading the non-free software part of it.

Friendly,

Sven Luther