Thank you Aditya! Your solution works for me. I added the counter to
your code:
\directlua{
counter = 1
}
\startbuffer[Q\directlua{tex.print(counter)}]
\startstackingsteps[1,{1:2}]
\stacking[1]{First Question}
\stacking[2]{First Answer}
\page
\stopstackingsteps
\stopbuffer
\directlua{counter = counter + 1}
\startbuffer[Q\directlua{tex.print(counter)}]
\startstackingsteps[1,{1:2}]
\stacking[1]{Second Question}
\stacking[2]{Second Answer}
\page
\stopstackingsteps
\stopbuffer
\directlua{counter = counter + 1}
\starttext
\dorecurse{2}{\getbuffer[Q\recurselevel]}
\stoptext
On 7 Apr 2026, at 3:49, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Mon, 6 Apr 2026, Emanuel Han wrote:
Hi list,
I want to show snippets of text on a slide and then add some other
snippets
of the same text on the next slide. Then, restart with some new text,
on a
„cleared“ slide.
Example:
Slide 1: English _______ difficult.
Slide 2: English is difficult.
Slide 3: ______ English classes ______ Mick ______ fun.
Slide 4: The English classes with Mick are fun.
Let’s call „question1“ what is to be printed on slide 1.
Let’s call „answer1“ what is to be added to that on slide 2.
Let’s call „question2“ what is to be printed on slide 3.
Let’s call „answer2“ what is to be added to that on slide 4.
And so on.
My first attempt is with stacking.
It works so far, the only problem I couldn’t solve is how to
„clear“ the
space used up by previous questions (and their answers). Is there a
specific
way to do this with stacking? I was not successful in finding
documentation
about stacking.
You should really think of this as two separate "stacks": one for Q1
and one for Q2.
\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
\startbuffer[Q1]
\startstackingsteps[1,{1:2}]
\stacking[1]{First Question}
\stacking[2]{First Answer}
\page
\stopstackingsteps
\stopbuffer
\startbuffer[Q2]
\startstackingsteps[1,{1:2}]
\stacking[1]{Second Question}
\stacking[2]{Second Answer}
\page
\stopstackingsteps
\stopbuffer
\starttext
\dorecurse{2}{\getbuffer[Q\recurselevel]}
\stoptext
And then I tried to include a counter, so that I can re-arrange the
order of
the questions with just cutting and pasting them somewhere else in
the source
code, without the need to manually edit the number of the question
(even
better than that would be a randomizer for the order of the
questions). Below
is my attempt with the counter, which unfortunately doesn’t work.
Maybe it’s
a matter of when the counter variable is stored / updated.
This should be easy with the above structure.
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