On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:11:06 +0100 Saša Janiška <g...@atmarama.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have just checked that my first post to this list was more than > 10yrs ago (end of 2002). Then I was working on some full-sized books > and ended up with LyX/LaTex. Later, had few attempts to switch to > ConTeXt, but as a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was > using light markups like rst/AsciiDoc for my writing needs without > higher-quality typesetting. > > Yesterday I had to help my wife to put together some medicine-related > presentation for the meeting at her working place and used LyX/LaTeX > with Beamer class. > > Considering that there might be need to do such thing more often in > the future as well as possibility that I might have to produce lot of > presentations for my public lectures/workshops based on philosophy > (iow. no need of math), I am again in the position to consider > ConTeXt, but this time mostly for presentations. > > I'm (well) aware of ConTeXt's advantage in the sense of being complete > package without clashing of different packages which usually happens > in LaTeX world, I wonder if someone can give some piece of advice to > learn and/or switch ConTeXt for preparing presentations instead of > learning lot of LaTeX packages? > > How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer? > > I'm on Linux (running Debian Sid) and use Vim as my primary editor so > wonder if ConTeXt users recommend to e.g. prepare drafts of their > documents like rst/AsciiDoc/markdown and then convert them into > ConTeXt with tool(s) like Pandoc? Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations. For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to look at the simpleslides module. That could be a starting point. Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
