Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-13 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hi, once again, thank you very much for your help. @Hans Most of those presentation styles were used at tex user group meetings and in those cases I often use new (or experimental) functionality, i.e. hooking in extentions and such; in the transition from mkii to mkiv some of the hacks

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Thank you very much for your clarifications! To summarize... 1. The use of additional modules may be nice (as Sietse proposed the complex-slides module), but ConTeXt can achieve very flexible solutions even without these modules. 2. Although the production of slides was not the main issue of my

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-11 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hi Keith, thank you for your open comments. You exactly understood the questions that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to ConTeXt? Yes, I do not have (and I do not want to have) a deeper understanding of proper TeX. Well, I have Knuth's TeXbook in my shelf, but it is

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-10 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hello Sietse, thank you for your proposal. I guess that there is not a lack of options here. However, my problem may be simpler than I had described in the first place. I am not so much concerned with using a specific slide layout (be it s-pre-05 or some fancy simple- or complexslide layout),

[NTG-context] ConTeXt on the Mac (TexShop). Problem of a newbie

2013-01-08 Thread Meigen, Thomas
Hi, after using LaTeX for article writing, presentations (beamer) and posters for about 15 years I wanted to try ConTeXt last week. I am not sure whether I installed all components correctly, so I tried to compile different simple test files. As I don't understand the error messages, I would