Am 26.01.2006 um 02:03 schrieb Allan Odgaard:
On 26/1/2006, at 1:35, Matthias Damm wrote:
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I am not sure if you can really compare beamer and koma here. Beamer has some syntax which is quite different from standard LaTeX. But koma is just a variant of LaTeX, it replaces the standard article, book etc. classes by scrartcl, scrbook etc. and gives you some more options. I don't think that koma support will hurt any standard LaTeX user.
Then we can probably add support for that in the standard LaTeX grammar, similar to how the C grammar markup miscellaneous Mac specific types (which are not in the C language/library per se).
Curious, what are the advantages of using koma? And do you have a link with more info?
www.komascript.de.
It should be installed on every standard system.
Koma is a very extensive addition to standard LaTeX which makes a lot of things much easier. It is fully backwards-compatible to the standard classes but offers a lot of additions like the additional commands for creating headings without numbering. Basically it does nothing that is not possible with the standard classes but makes a lot of things easier. (A lot of things could be mentioned, like a specialized letter class etc. pp.) It is very popular among European users since it is much better adapted to the A4 (instead of letter) paper formats. And it has a very good documentation. Try texdoc scrguien.pdf, that should open the english manual.
Best, Matthias