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Help adding Latex BEAMER class to athena [help.mit.edu #403160]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott D Sewell)
Thu Mar 29 09:40:35 2007
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:37:05 -0400
From: Scott D Sewell <sewell@MIT.EDU>
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Greetings Athena Release Team,
I teach a course 8.13 in which we ask students to generate their oral
presentation slides using LaTeX on athena. There is a very nice new LaTeX
class called BEAMER available at
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
That we'd like to be able to ask our students to use.
Is it possible to add this to athena so that it's available univerally?
Thanks,
Scott
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:06:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Prengel via RT <3partysw@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: [3partysw] Latex BEAMER add-on [help.mit.edu #403160]
To: sewell@mit.edu
Want to make sure this gets into the case; my direct reply bounced
**To: jrcain@MIT.EDU
**cc: 3partysw-comment@MIT.EDU
**Subject: Re: [Comment] Help installing Latex Package (BEAMER) on athena
[help.mit.edu #403160]
**Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:36:29 -0400
**From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Hi Jim,
>What do you think? Does this look feasible?
>> There is a great 'new' latex class called BEAMER
>> http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ that we would like our students
>> to be able
>> to use on athena for producing their oral presentations in our course.
>> Can you
>> tell me the proper way for us to be able to make this accessible to
>> MIT
>> students.
This is a bit tricky- I don't maintain Latex, it's part of the Athena release.
I'd forward the request to release-team@mit.edu. If they accept, it would
probably take a fair amount of time before it actually becomes available.
If they decline, it may be possible to run it from a locker, as olc
suggests. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about Tex/Latex because
I've never worked with it. I know SIPB maintains various lockers
containing Tex/Latex (the newtex locker for example), and they might
be willing to help. They have a general-purpose mailing list bug-sipb@mit.edu
that the requestor could post to; couldn't find anything more specific
in the newtex locker (amu, who wrote the README, is no longer at MIT I
believe).
Alex
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