Re: Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 06.12.2011 um 14:30 schrieb Pavneet Arora:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to put aside doing my presentations using prosper, and
> migrating to using ConTeXt+simpleslides.
> 
> I ask this knowing full well that many would consider these features as
> simply adding visual noise to presentations, and normally I too eschew
> them, but as I am reading Jean-Luc Doumont's book on effective
> communications I am reminded that the primary purpose of presentations is
> to affect change in the audience.  I am to give a presentation in a few
> days to a group of designers/interior decorators, and for this audience
> presentations using these features are both appropriate and often
> expected.
> 
> I am looking for the equivalent of transition effects in the prosper
> class---the simple Wipe transition would suffice; no need for Glitter
> ;).  The other feature that I would like is the incremental displaying
> of a slide, i.e., the \overlays feature.  Is there an easy way to
> incorporate these into a ConTeXt based presentation, even if it means
> not necessarily using simple slides?

\setupinteraction[state=start]
\setuppagetransitions[wipe]
\setuppapersize[S6]
\setuphead[align=middle]
\starttext
\title{Knuth}\input knuth
\title{Tufte}\input tufte
\title{Zapf} \input zapf
\stoptext

Wolfgang
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