Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-20 Thread R. Bastian
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu scribit:

 On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote:
 
  Hello,
 
  I downloaded the files generic*** etc and tried to install (following
  the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation
  'texexec generic ...tex' failed.
 
  So I tried same tests:
  --
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec generic-talk-15min-45min.tex
  TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk-15min-45min.tex'
  TeXExec | no ctx file found
  TeXExec | tex processing method: context
  TeXExec | TeX run 1
  TeXExec | writing option file generic-talk-15min-45min.top
  TeXExec | using randomseed 822
  TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
  TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  \write18 enabled.
  (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
  kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
  tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not 
  found.
  fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
  I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
  TeXExec | runtime: 0.040151
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find . -name cont-en.fmt
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
  cont-en.fmt
  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/fc4b4b59a4904326c19d982f9a3c28fe/formats/cont-en.fmt
  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-linux-64/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
  tcfmgr.map
  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
  fmtutil.cnf
  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
  r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ sudo mktexlsr
  mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
  mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
  mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
  mktexlsr: Done.
  -
  Something is wrong ...
 
  Can you help me ?
 
 You need to make the context format. Try
 
 fmtutil-sys cont-en

r...@kubuntu64:~/Context$ fmtutil-sys cont-fr
fmtutil: fmtutil: unknown option `cont-fr'. Try fmtutil --help for help.

 
 Or, since you already have the xetex and the luatex formats, you can use
 
 context generic-talk*.tex
 
 or
 
 texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex

r...@kubuntu64:~/Context$ texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk*.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | nothing to process
TeXExec | runtime: 0.008959

I use mkII mnimals (from 2007, but installed 2009.05). I will
reinstall soon.

 
 
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-20 Thread Aditya Mahajan

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote:


On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu scribit:


Something is wrong ...

Can you help me ?


You need to make the context format. Try

fmtutil-sys cont-en


r...@kubuntu64:~/Context$ fmtutil-sys cont-fr
fmtutil: fmtutil: unknown option `cont-fr'. Try fmtutil --help for help.


fmtutil-sys cont-en (not cont-fr). I don't know what is the right way to 
make the cont-fr format in TL. If that fails you can also try


texexec --make --all


Or, since you already have the xetex and the luatex formats, you can use

context generic-talk*.tex

or

texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex


r...@kubuntu64:~/Context$ texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk*.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | nothing to process
TeXExec | runtime: 0.008959


Sorry, I was being lazy and assumed that your shell will expand the *. 
Aparantly it did not. What I meant was


texexec --xetex  generic-talk-15min-45min.tex

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-20 Thread Hans Hagen

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

fmtutil-sys cont-en (not cont-fr). I don't know what is the right way to 
make the cont-fr format in TL. If that fails you can also try


texexec --make --all


texexec --make fr
context --make fr

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
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
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
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
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen

Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote:


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.


you can also roll out your own style ... the s-pre-*.tex files have some 
examples (some styles can be run with --mode=demo)


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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
It just occurred to me that a style was not a necessary thing, but an
optional parameter, and that without it, the style would end up being
plain. That was the case, and therefore my problem is essentially
solved. Thanks everybody, especially Thomas.

Question: how do I get white text on black background? I tried
adapting some commands from the Wiki, and that didn't work. Searching
for the word background in the 'simple slides' documentation led me
to information that was unrelated to what I wanted.

For the sake of everybody out there wanting to use ConTeXt for their
presentations, it would be very nice to have a link for a complete
template, with title, author, a list and a picture in the Wiki. I
slightly modified the simplest example in 'simple slides' (taking away
the style, and including a list and a figure). It is available here:

http://archive.gpfreitas.net/coursework/grad/caltech/year3/ss280/presentation1/pres-simple_slides.zip

It does need 'simple slides', so it might be a bad idea for the
Wiki... but anyway, please, feel free to copy it to the wiki.

Best,

Guilherme

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas
guilhe...@gpfreitas.com wrote:
 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
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
 you can also roll out your own style ... the s-pre-*.tex files have some
 examples (some styles can be run with --mode=demo)

 Hans

Hi Hans, thanks for the help.

What are the s-re-*.tex files? Where are they?

By the way, I couldn't find any useful source code following the link
given in the Wiki as a reference for those that wanted more:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/dir/general/sources/

There seem to be circular paths (you go to directory A, then B, then
C, then you are back at A), and I couldn't find source files for the
presentations.

Best,

Guilherme
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Hans Hagen

Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote:

you can also roll out your own style ... the s-pre-*.tex files have some
examples (some styles can be run with --mode=demo)

Hans


Hi Hans, thanks for the help.

What are the s-re-*.tex files? Where are they?


tex/context/base/s-pre-*.tex

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread luigi scarso
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas 
guilhe...@gpfreitas.com wrote:

 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,


Not in order of importance
*)simple slides
*) s-pre-*.tex
*) build your slide with layers

Please  consider this
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

and this
www.dabeaz.com
His slide are really ok, cfr.
www.dabeaz.com/python/*GIL*.pdf

I think that every technical slides must be suitable for printing without
effort and with hight quality. So I prefear A5 paper , black and white, one
font for running text (CharisSIL actually) one font for listing
(Incosolata, actually)  and one for symbols (Unicode.otf, actually) .
They render well on screen and on paper: see
http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009/slides/luigi-slides.pdf

For printing can be good A5 on A4 on top  (bottom half space for your notes)
or 2 A5 on A4 (more compact)

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Wolfgang Schuster


Am 19.10.2009 um 10:17 schrieb luigi scarso:


Not in order of importance
*)simple slides
*) s-pre-*.tex
*) build your slide with layers


*) write your own module ;)

Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote:


It just occurred to me that a style was not a necessary thing, but an
optional parameter, and that without it, the style would end up being
plain. That was the case, and therefore my problem is essentially
solved. Thanks everybody, especially Thomas.

Question: how do I get white text on black background? I tried
adapting some commands from the Wiki, and that didn't work. Searching
for the word background in the 'simple slides' documentation led me
to information that was unrelated to what I wanted.


Normally, you can just say
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=black]

But simpleslides resets the page background on each page so you need to 
play nice with simpleslides


\usemodule[simpleslides]

\setupcolors[textcolor=white]

\startuseMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}
  StartPage ;
  fill Page withcolor black ;
  StopPage ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\defineoverlay
  [simpleslides:background:horizontal]
  [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

\defineoverlay
  [simpleslides:background:vertical]
  [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

\defineoverlay
  [simpleslides:background:title]
  [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

% Now for the rest of the presentation

\setupTitle
  [title={Presentation Title},
   author={F.~Author, S.~Another},
   date={Date / Occasion}]


\starttext

\placeTitle

\SlideTitle{A quote}

\input tufte

\stoptext


For the sake of everybody out there wanting to use ConTeXt for their 
presentations, it would be very nice to have a link for a complete 
template, with title, author, a list and a picture in the Wiki. I 
slightly modified the simplest example in 'simple slides' (taking away 
the style, and including a list and a figure). It is available here:


http://archive.gpfreitas.net/coursework/grad/caltech/year3/ss280/presentation1/pres-simple_slides.zip


Also see the detailed examples that come with simpleslides:

http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-simpleslides/doc/context/third/simpleslides/solutions/

Specifically, check the style-template file if you want to create your own 
template (i.e., want a style that is not part of the module)


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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
Well, thanks everybody for the invaluable help, these answers seem to
be enough for me to do my next slides with ConTeXt.

Best,

Guilherme

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread R. Bastian
Hello,
 
I downloaded the files generic*** etc and tried to install (following
the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation
'texexec generic ...tex' failed.

So I tried same tests:
--
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec generic-talk-15min-45min.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk-15min-45min.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file generic-talk-15min-45min.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 822
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 \write18 enabled.
 (/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
TeXExec | runtime: 0.040151
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find . -name cont-en.fmt
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/fc4b4b59a4904326c19d982f9a3c28fe/formats/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-linux-64/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
tcfmgr.map
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ sudo mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
-
Something is wrong ...

Can you help me ?
 
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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-19 Thread Aditya Mahajan

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, R. Bastian wrote:


Hello,

I downloaded the files generic*** etc and tried to install (following
the 'simpleslides.pdf'); it seemed to succeed. But the compilation
'texexec generic ...tex' failed.

So I tried same tests:
--
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ texexec generic-talk-15min-45min.tex
TeXExec | processing document 'generic-talk-15min-45min.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file generic-talk-15min-45min.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 822
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
\write18 enabled.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx)
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
TeXExec | runtime: 0.040151
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find . -name cont-en.fmt
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/fc4b4b59a4904326c19d982f9a3c28fe/formats/cont-en.fmt
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-linux-64/web2c/xetex/cont-en.fmt
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
tcfmgr.map
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ find /usr/local/texlive/2007/ -name 
fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
r...@kubuntu64:~/Context/Slides$ sudo mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
-
Something is wrong ...

Can you help me ?


You need to make the context format. Try

fmtutil-sys cont-en

Or, since you already have the xetex and the luatex formats, you can use

context generic-talk*.tex

or

texexec --xetex generic-talk*.tex


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[NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-18 Thread Guilherme P. de Freitas
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



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Re: [NTG-context] Simplest slides

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz


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
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