[powerdot] Re: styles
- From: Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: powerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 23:10:50 +1000
Hi Hendri,
Thanks for your reply. I hadn't considered copyright; I wasn't even
imagining it to be an issue. But of course people want ownership of their
creations - with prosper/powerdot styles as much as anything else. However,
now that I've got powerdot up and working, and am translating all my prosper
presentations to powerdot, what I'd really like is a greater collection of
styles. Not being a graphics designer, and being chronically short of time,
it's highly unlikely I'll be desgining any myself.
Will there be a public repository, do you think, of contributed powerdot
styles?
cheers,
Alasdair
On 10/21/05, Hendri Adriaens <spotje@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
>
> Alasdair,
>
> > It would be nice if some of the prosper styles were ported to powerdot.
> In
> > particular, I really liked the azure style in prosper, but the closest
> in
> > powerdot is upen.
>
> I don't think that is allowed by copyright or artistic law. To avoid
> any trouble, I won't do it. Feel free to do it yourself though. But
> such styles then cannot be included in the powerdot package because of
> the above mentioned concern...
>
> Besides that, it may not be considered to be particularly nice in the
> LaTeX community as it more explicitly tries to pull users from prosper
> to powerdot. To give an example of a similar kind: I wasn't
> particularly pleased when Till Tantau made a `compatibility' mode for
> HA-prosper some time ago and copied my example files in his docs to
> show how to modify them to work with the beamer compat mode.
>
> Best,
> -Hendri.
>
>
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