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Newbie needing powerdot
I am a newbie using a IMac with Mac OSX Tiger and OzTeX. My question is: how do I acquire the powerdot class. Keep in mind I know very little about LaTeX except what I use on a daily basis. Any help is appreciated.
Dr. Rizzy
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Newbie needing powerdot
Give it a try. It is very easy to install and it comes with almost any class or package you may need, including powerdot, of course.
Download it from here: http://www.tug.org/mactex/.
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Newbie needing powerdot
welcome to the board!
I just want to mention an alternative to powerdot for producing slides: the beamer class. It's very well documented, see its manual.
There are a lot of beamer examples in the web, for instance: Stefan
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I downloaded MacTeX and if this has powerdot it should help greatly. It looks like a good LaTeX distribution. I have only one remaining question. How do I change the background in the text editor to white again? (I seem to have done something to make it a grey.) I will also be sure to check out beamer. Thank you both very much for your help!! Have a great time TeXing.
Dr. Rizzy
Newbie needing powerdot
Which editor? Alpha? TeXShop?Dr. Rizzy wrote: I have only one remaining question. How do I change the background in the text editor to white again? (I seem to have done something to make it a grey.)
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Dr. Rizzy
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$ defaults write TeXShop background_R 1.
$ defaults write TeXShop background_G 1.
$ defaults write TeXShop background_B 1.
Here the $ sign means the shell prompt, which may look different in your Mac. Re-open TeXShop and see if the background is white again.
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Newbie needing powerdot
The Terminal app gives you access to the Unix system on which the Mac OS X relies. When you open Terminal (search it in the dock or on Applications > Utilities) , you see a window like this: The shell prompt is just a set of characters that indicates that the shell (the command interpreter) is ready to receive and process commands (~$ in the above image). Then just type the first command written in my last post and hit return, as shown here: Repeat with the remaining two commands. Then type exit and quit Terminal. You are done.Dr. Rizzy wrote: I have a different shell prompt on my Mac but hopefully this will work when I find out what the shell prompt is.
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