Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on android via "debian noroot"-App

2016-01-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:40 PM, luigi scarso wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Thomas Klein > wrote: > >> Hello ConTeXt-Crew, >> >> thank you very much for this fantastic application. I'm a former >> LaTeX-user and now I can't

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 13:55 -0700, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations. That's very true, indeed! > For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to look at the > simpleslides module. That could be a starting point. That should be installed by

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
Am 26.01.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Saša Janiška: > Still, wonder how do you like Pandoc's ability to convert to > ConTeXt? I don't use it. ;-) I use Pablo's solution to convert to ConTeXt. https://github.com/ousia/from-pandoc-to-context It adds an additional layer of xml to the process but it

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 22:15 +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > I used ConTeXt once for a presentation, and then came back to Beamer. > Not necessarily because it's better, but I know it quite well, so > I could prepare my slides faster.   Hmm, that's valid point. > So I don't have a lot of

[NTG-context] ConTeXt on android via "debian noroot"-App

2016-01-26 Thread Thomas Klein
Hello ConTeXt-Crew, thank you very much for this fantastic application. I'm a former LaTeX-user and now I can't imagine to go back ever. Recently I tried to install ConTeXt in an android smartphone with help of the app "debian noroot". Everything went fine and I'm able to compile documents, but

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Pon, 2016-01-25 at 22:56 +0100, Otared Kavian wrote: > I have been using Context for all my presentations for many years and > I think it is easier to use than any Latex package, since out of the > box I can add pictures, menus, graphs of functions, etc. That is very encouraging to hear. ;)

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 09:56 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > The "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" > is an argument for using

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Hans Hagen
On 1/25/2016 9:55 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:11:06 +0100 Saša Janiška 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.

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Saša Janiška
On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 08:34 +0100, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > For the sake of completeness, have a look at Pandoc, which produces > presentations from simple markdown sources in various formats > including beamer and some nice looking html based presentations. I usually find too simple and prefer

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-01-26, at 08:34, Jan U. Hasecke wrote: > Am 25.01.2016 um 21:11 schrieb Saša Janiška: >> How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer? > > For the sake of completeness, have a look at Pandoc, which produces > presentations from simple markdown

Re: [NTG-context] Overfull boxes using m-cweb

2016-01-26 Thread Ibn Saeed
Hans Hagen wxs.nl> writes: > it may be a result of many unbreakable (key)words, so in that case try: > > \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] > > Hans > Thanks Hans, I was having some issue with overfull boxe in one paragraph, i applied your command and it solved the issue.

Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-26 Thread Ibn Saeed
Pablo Rodriguez gmx.es> writes: > > On 01/26/2016 05:13 AM, Ibn Saeed wrote: > > Pablo Rodriguez writes: > > > > Have you tried \startstandardmakeup for Title Pages ? > > Many thanks for your reply, Ibn. > > I use a makeup for the title pages (in fact \startitlepage could be > written as

Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-26 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 01/26/2016 09:15 AM, Ibn Saeed wrote: > > Take a look at \setupinteraction > > Syntax : > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupinteraction > > Examples here: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Export > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDFX Many thanks for your reply again, Ibn. I’m

Re: [NTG-context] which is the best/right element for elements in cover and title pages?

2016-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Pablo Rodriguez 26. Januar 2016 um 09:42 Many thanks for your reply again, Ibn. I’m afraid this is something different of what I intend to ask here (in fact, I use \setupinteraction in my docments too). I guess \definehead is what I should be using. No, the makeup

[NTG-context] drops module update

2016-01-26 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi, just a small maintenance update (everything was broken) for the drops module. Should be working again with the latest versions of ImageMagick (6.9.2-0+) and ConTeXt (luatex 0.85.0+). Files (version 2016-01-18) can be found here [the zip file also contains the documentation (drops.pdf)]

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Saša Janiška wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-26 Thread Jeong Dal
Dear Saša Janiška, I’d like tell you about my case. I have used Beamer long time ago, but now I am using ConTeXt + Simpleslides module for my presentations. There are already many given templates. You can find them in the doc of simple slides.(…../tex/texmf-modules/doc/…) However we can make

Re: [NTG-context] Usage of label in startsection etc.

2016-01-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Jan U. Hasecke 22. Januar 2016 um 16:54 Hi list, on this page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/startsection the argument "label" is not explained. Since the argument "reference" is used for the text references \in, \at and \about I wonder what "label"

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on android via "debian noroot"-App

2016-01-26 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Thomas Klein wrote: > Hello ConTeXt-Crew, > > thank you very much for this fantastic application. I'm a former > LaTeX-user and now I can't imagine to go back ever. > > Recently I tried to install ConTeXt in an android smartphone with