Re: Starting with prosper

On Wednesday, April 16, 2003 Klaus Jantzen yammered thusly:

> I try to use prosper and started with the file structure shown on
> page 2 of the documentation. The macro \maketitle is rejected with
> "Undefined control sequence". What other packages do I have to load?

Are you using the CVS version of Prosper?  I'm asking, because I
downloaded the CVS version today and came across a similar problem.  The
problem occurs whenever the title color or text color are set to be
something other than the default black.  For example, when I try to
compile the prosper-tour.tex example, using the autumn style, I get the
following error:

	-----------
	! Undefined control sequence.
	\@fontTitleColor ....74pt}{20pt}\selectfont \colC

	l.92 \maketitle
	-----------

Which looks like the definition of the color colC is getting lost
somewhere along the line.  This happens if a color is specified in the
.sty file for either the title font or the text font.  Note that the
problem goes away if the slideBW option is specified (although the title
font is now a blue color -- at least with the autumn style).

Compiling with the rico style (which doesn't define a new color for the
title or text) has no such problem, although it has a problem with the
overlapping color example (all the styles have this problem) -- the error
for this is as follows:

	-----------
	PSTricks error.  See User's Guide for further information.
	                 Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
	! Bad number: `\color@LightBlue '. 0 substituted..
	\@pstrickserr ... immediate help.}\errmessage {#1}
	                                                  \endgroup
	l.226 }
	-----------

It seems that the CVS version has problems keeping track of user-defined
colors.  Of course I'm lousy at debugging tex code, so it could be
something else.  Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?

William D. Neumann
<[email protected]>

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