Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-02-02 Thread Saša Janiška
On Uto, 2016-01-26 at 09:57 +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > unfortunately, there's no ConTeXt support, but adding it is a > questions of a few hours of simple Emacs Lisp hacking). Let me just say that I've decided to move to Spacemacs (it's RSI- friendly) along with Org-mode/Gnus etc. However,

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

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] 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] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Jan U. Hasecke
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 sources in various formats including beamer and some nice looking html based

[NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Saša Janiška
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

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Alan BRASLAU
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. Later, had few attempts to switch to >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, 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. Now, depending on the complexity of what one wants to do, it would be more or less easy to

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt vs Beamer

2016-01-25 Thread Marcin Borkowski
On 2016-01-25, at 21:55, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations. Or like presentations given from The One Editor: http://mbork.pl/download/Slides_about_LaTeX_editing.pdf ;-) > For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to