> recently I ha dto quickly put together few presentations for online meetings > and not knowing better (aka quicker) way, I took/installed LyX on my Fedora > machine. The process is not so smooth and end result is OK if we forgive > ourselves that all Beamer presentations are looking almost the same.
Agreed. I find that all beamer presentations look the same and it can be difficult to change the look and feel of beamer presentations. > However, I'm not into diving deep into Beamer package studying/learning it > more thoroughly anticipating that soon I'd have to do the same thing with > some other package. :-) > > Otoh, ConTeXt is a different league and learning it will pay for itself in the > long run. > > However, in order to be at least somewhat productive, I need some help so I > can have some starter and not postponing learning ConTeXt ad infinitum, so I'm > attaching small Beamer sample and wonder if someone can help by providing > somewhat similar thing for ConText? (no need for all the graphic - I'm more > concerned with proper overlays and having content in more than single column). A presentation is just a regular document with small margins and some color :-) Here is an old blog post on how to get to a decent presentation layout step-by-step. https://adityam.github.io/context-blog/post/presentation-40-commits-redux/ I also extensively use layers for absolute placement of content, which is more powerful than the simple two columns which beamer provides. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
