Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-30 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:21:30AM +0800, Yue Wang napisa#322;(a): On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-30 Thread R. Bastian
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:21:30 +0800 Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com scribit: On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-30 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Yue Wang wrote: Please design a few fancy slides in both Powerpoint/Keynote and TeX, and compare the efforts you should take. Good exercises to follow are Steve Jobs' WWDC presentations and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. After doing so, you can come back and

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-30 Thread Yue Wang
Could you please take this discussion somewhere else? This is neither of interest for a ConTeXt mailing list, nor is the tone appropriate for this list. Thank you. I don't think this topic is unrelated to ConTeXt (or TeX). For a long time TeX macro packages has been focused on structured

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-30 Thread Yue Wang
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Marcin Borkowski mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl wrote: Dnia Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:21:30AM +0800, Yue Wang napisa#322;(a): On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that

[NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo presentation? Best, Vyatcheslav ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 11:59 schrieb Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky: Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo presentation? There is only one module for presentation, simpleslides (was taspresent), Hans use styles for his presentation which are not modules :) Wolfgang

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang well, at this point why not beamer of latex ? -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 29.04.2009 um 13:32 schrieb luigi scarso: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Yue Wang yuleo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, you'd better switch to powerpoint or keynote, as they're more powerful (easy to build fancy slides, and better transitions). Yue Wang well, at this point why not beamer

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote: well, at this point why not beamer of latex ? Umm... You are good at telling jokes:) why not try slideshow of PLT Scheme? #lang slideshow (slide #:title How to Say Hello (t Hello World!)) -- luigi

[NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
Let me start with a quote: After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing their presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for this task. In fact, I hate transitions :) And I don't need any animations. I just want professionally-looking pdf pages with

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot achieve that. Yue Wang On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky yatskov...@gmail.com wrote: Let me

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot achieve that. Sure you can. Use a background layer, and then you can place the

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: Let me start with a quote: After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing their presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for this task. In fact, I hate transitions :) And I don't need any animations.

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2009-04-29 Thread Yue Wang
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Yue Wang wrote: Hi, you can find that on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ but anyway, you won't know how easy it is to place figure/text wherever you want in Keynote. In ConTeXt, you cannot

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-08-08 Thread Saji Njarackalazhikam Hameed
Thomas, Thanks for the presentation module. It is great. Just to let you know that the following files are missing in the zip file provided at downloaded at the garden: http://modules.contextgarden.net/taspresent 1. demo.tex 2. hor.jpg, vert.jpg saji ... * Thomas A. Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi Saji, thanks for the hint! This has finally motivated me to upload the new version (which had been done for a couple of days); it should be available at the garden. I hope this one has all the files. Have a look at the new styles and let me know if they work for you. Thomas On Aug 8,

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-08-08 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: thanks for the hint! This has finally motivated me to upload the new version (which had been done for a couple of days); it should be available at the garden. Hello Thomas, it would be nice, to have your module in the distribution

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-08-08 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Peter Münster wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: thanks for the hint! This has finally motivated me to upload the new version (which had been done for a couple of days); it should be available at the garden. Hello Thomas, it would be nice,

[NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-22 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, after some feedback and some more fiddling around, I have now uploaded a first (beta) version of the presentation module. It can be downloaded at the garden: http://modules.contextgarden.net/taspresent It has been improved (at least I hope); in particular, it provides more

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-21 Thread olivier Turlier
Le Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:35:04 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz a écrit : Hi all, I have played around a bit and prepared a module to produce presentations with ConTeXt. It is inspired (of course) by Hans's work, but provides less frills and an easier interface; I hope it is especially suited

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-21 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Olivier, thanks so much! This helps enormously -- I had a few reports that these assignments were troublesome, but couldn't reproduce them on my system, so I'm very grateful you provide a solution! (Note to self: will have to ask Taco why this works on some systems but not on others.)

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saji Hameed wrote: Hi Thomas, I would like to try your module. My mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] saji And so do I :) ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist

[NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-16 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Hi all, I have played around a bit and prepared a module to produce presentations with ConTeXt. It is inspired (of course) by Hans's work, but provides less frills and an easier interface; I hope it is especially suited for academic presentations. Before I actually unleash it on the

Re: [NTG-context] presentation module

2007-07-16 Thread Saji Hameed
Hi Thomas, I would like to try your module. My mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] saji ... On Jul 16, 2007, at 6:35 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Hi all, I have played around a bit and prepared a module to produce presentations with ConTeXt. It is inspired (of course) by Hans's work, but provides