In case I wasn't clear "That may be possible" refers to "Having a blank background may be possible".
And I really don't want to sound ungrateful for all the great software available out there for free (by the way, I pay for software that helps me), but it is maybe the 4th time I decide to try to write down a set of slides using ConTeXt and I can't find a simple template with a plain background to download. Call me crazy, but I didn't expect that. In the webpage for Slides/Presentations in the Context wiki, there is no complete, working template for a presentation with slides. Sure, people may want to customize everything, but I would guess 90% of presentation have a title and an author, lists and pictures. It would be very helpful to have such a template (as basic as possible, with those four components). And a template like this would be a great starting point for people like me, that want to migrate at least part of their work to ConTeXt (I've had a very positive experience writing problem sets already), and do that by doing real work, under a time constraint, instead of setting time aside to learn everything writing down examples, etc. (which is great, but takes longer) That kind of audience needs a quick solution, and then references to customizations. The references for customizations exist; the quick solutions (templates go a long way in this case), no. And I think the additional cost of doing that is minimal. Thanks everybody, but I still have to find my simple template: title, author, lists, pictures and plain background. I guess I could just go and write down a large centered text for title, etc. but I was hoping there would be something already done for very simple slides. Best, Guilherme On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Guilherme P. de Freitas <guilhe...@gpfreitas.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I did take a look at simple slides, and in their documentation, there > is no "plain" background. All the backgrounds have some shape/color to > it. That may be possible, but I couldn't tell just by spending 3-4 min > skimming the documentation. As it is something very natural to want (a > plain background), I assumed that it was either not supported without > a hack, or too hard to figure out. > > Best, > > Guilherme > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz > <thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de> wrote: >> >> On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:06 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I would like to be able to make very simple slides with ConTeXt, and I >>> need a template. I would be very grateful if someone could point me to >>> one. Think Apple's Keynotes or Lawrence Lessig's presentations. Plain >>> background, not too much stuff on the slides whenever possible. If you >>> need a more concrete example, here it is: >>> >>> http://archive.gpfreitas.net/work/seminars/en/sisl/turingt-pres.pdf >>> >>> It's just that I am experimenting with taking notes while I read a >>> paper, and make a presentation direct from the notes. For that, using >>> my favorite text editor is a lot better than using Apple's Keynote >>> (which is otherwise very nice). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Guilherme >>> >> You could do worse than taking a look at simpleslides: >> http://modules.contextgarden.net/simpleslides The name really says it all... >> >> Thomas >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ >> > > > > -- > Guilherme P. de Freitas > http://www.gpfreitas.com > -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
