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Hi All,
I just came across the following, and I found it so good that I thought it may be of interest to other people, too:
http://www.unc.edu/~jstimson/resource.html
It is a simple routine that allows you to convert a PowerPoint presentation into a beamer document - though you first have to convert ...

Hi guys, problem solved. In case it might be of use to somebody else, what was needed is simply to enter the proxy address without the "http://" prefix. Also, I was using the wrong port, rathern than insisting with 8080 I should have tried 3128.
paola

Hi Guys,
I am afraid I am totally computer illiterate, so I do not understand most of what you write up there (e.g. don't know what GUI is, nor what "the environment variable http_proxy set up to the proxy url:" means.
My problem is basically the same as the opening post, save for the fact that I am ...

ok, I have been playing around with this, and finally managed to obtain the following (shamelessly plagiarising from http://syracuse-dev.org/mpst-globe/browser/trunk/mp-geo/doc/doc-mp-geo.tex)

\newsavebox{\dangerbox}
%\newsavebox{\titolo}
\newenvironment{Danger}{ \begin{lrbox}{\dangerbox}
\begin ...

Many thansk, Stefan, I have just tried it and indeed it works like a charm. My problem, though, is that I was looking for something easy to use that would work like:
\begin{mybeautifulbox}[options on colours, lines, etc]
my text here
\end{mybautifulbox}
The reason is, I am working with a coauthor ...

Hi Stefan, thanks, but the fancybox package does not do all I'd like it to do (though I guess it is better than nothing). I tried loading beamerbaseboxes, but I get error messages on the xcolor package, no matter what I do (i get something along the lines that bg is not defined).
I also tried the ...

Hi all,
is there a way to use the \beamerboxesrounded command in a non beamer document? I am writing in a book style.
Thanks!

presumed you have solved your problem by now :D
if not, a very simple way is to load the "color" package, then enter a latex field with the colour you want. The colour of the text will stay like that until you invoke another colour, e.g


\color{red}
this text is red
\color{black}
goes back to ...

p.s.
one more question. I am now trying to setup a new "paolbox" environment, so that in the body of the paper I only have to write something like "\begin{Paolabox}" and "\end{Paolabox}" so that I can put the text in between, and keep the same style. Problem is, I do not know how to give the "node ...

curiouslearn, Thorsten,
I owe you big time! It did take me a few hours to install the two packages, pgf and xcolor in Sword, but in the end, with some hit and misses, it seems to be working. The problem with SWord is that it is not fully compatible with Latex, they do have their own proprietary ...