Re: ConTeXt vs Beamer

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

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 use such and such features.
A good start is to begin with the examples set up by Hans and by Aditya and Thomas Schmitz.
The examples by Hans are in the directory

	/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/modules/mkiv

of your Context installation, and begin with s-pre-, followed by digits and mkii or mkiv suffix.
The examples by Aditya and Thomas are to be found in 

	/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/simpleslides

Bets regards: OK



> On 25 Jan 2016, at 21:11, Saša Janiška <gour@atmarama.com> 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 ConTeXt, but as
> a result I reduced even my LyX/LaTeX usage and was using light markups
> like rst/AsciiDoc for my writing needs without higher-quality
> typesetting.
> 
> Yesterday I had to help my wife to put together some medicine-related
> presentation for the meeting at her working place and used LyX/LaTeX
> with Beamer class.
> 
> 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 (iow.
>  no need of math), I am again in the position to consider ConTeXt, but
> this time mostly for presentations.
> 
> 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 presentations instead of learning
> lot of LaTeX packages?
> 
> How does ConTeXt compare for the purpose vs LaTeX/Beamer?
> 
> I'm on Linux (running Debian Sid) and use Vim as my primary editor so
> wonder if ConTeXt users recommend to e.g. prepare drafts of their
> documents like rst/AsciiDoc/markdown and then convert them into ConTeXt
> with tool(s) like Pandoc?
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
> 
> -- 
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> attachment one attains the Supreme.
> 
> 
> 
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