RE: Presentations->Lecture Notes

RE: Presentations->Lecture Notes

[Nigel King]

Sorry if this is a repost-it never appeared first time!

> \switchtobodyfont[ber,pos]

Thank you Taco for this, the line is now in my cont-sys.tex file which I
assume
is the place to put it.

> Depends on what you want. I don't know what foiltex does.

foiltex simply provides a very basic means of giving out notes of the slides
where the format of the text and pictures is similar but not identical to
the slides. Typically slides with 4 bullets would occupy 1/5 of the page
length whereas complicated slides would occupy 1/2 page. The text size is
smaller (10,11,12pt) with headings appropriately scaled. It is easy to use
multicolumns to fit about 6 slides worth of content onto one page.

There are two possible ways of dealing with this in context (I think):-
1. use the \setuparranging type of command to put images of the slides on
paper, in this case one wants the central image only of the pre-original
format. The result would be similar (but better than!) PowerPoint Print
Handouts(6 slides per page) command.
2. Convert the special presentation commands, \Topic into a \section
command, \Subject into a \subsection command, \Topics into a \placecontent
command and \TitlePage to \????. And use a normal document format of some
kind. It would be nice to be able to do this by some simple replacement of
the \usemodule command. Specific presentation commands like
\presentationstep, \autopresentationsteptrue etc would need to be nulled.

I assume this might be done with a \usemodule[pre-handout] type of command
in place of any one of the \usemodule[pre-original] commands.

I would prefer the version 2 above but others might like version 1.

Did I read of an intention to be able to insert speakers notes into these
presentation formats?

Nigel King

RE: Presentations->Lecture Notes

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:36 PM 12/7/99 +0000, Nigel King wrote:

> .... 

>There are two possible ways of dealing with this in context (I think):-
>1. use the \setuparranging type of command to put images of the 

This would mean processing pages at for instance s4 and multiple up them.
The disadvantage is that downscaling based on different fonts does not give
the same output. 

>2. Convert the special presentation commands, \Topic into a \section
>command, \Subject into a \subsection command, \Topics into a \placecontent
>command and \TitlePage to \????. And use a normal document format of some
>kind. It would be nice to be able to do this by some simple replacement of
>the \usemodule command. Specific presentation commands like
>\presentationstep, \autopresentationsteptrue etc would need to be nulled.

Hm. Again, one would have non compatible output. 

>I assume this might be done with a \usemodule[pre-handout] type of command
>in place of any one of the \usemodule[pre-original] commands.
>
>I would prefer the version 2 above but others might like version 1.

How about version 3: 

\setuppapersize
  [A4][A4] % or [A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

\setuplayout
  [header=0pt,
   footer=1cm,
   backspace=1cm,
   topspace=1cm,
   width=middle,
   height=middle]

\setupfootertexts
  [presentation---\currentdate\space---\space\pagenumber]

\starttext

\combinepages[pre-ntsa.pdf][n=7,nx=2,ny=3] % or [n=7,nx=3,ny=2]

\stoptext

I'll send you the rather small macro \combinepages in a separate mail to
test.  

>Did I read of an intention to be able to insert speakers notes into these
>presentation formats?

I can think about that as a feature. (I'm full of intentions but in lack of
time -)

Hans

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Presentations->Lecture Notes

[Nigel King]

I am doing some lecturing at the moment and have been using foiltex. I have
translated about 40 slides to "pre-original" as a test to see how that works
and I like the outcome. My only significant problem was to get the fonts to
work. I do not use lbr but context has its own naming convention for
Times-Roman. tir and the lies in the postscript had to be added to my .map
file. If I have them right perhaps they should be in the distribution
included in context.map. Possibly they are system dependant?

I am able with foiltex to provide handouts as a nearly normal tex document
with the change of one line at the begining. Is there an equivalent way to
do this with context?

Nigel King

PS.

com Courier <Courier.pfb texnansi.enc
coo Courier-Oblique <Courier-Oblique.pfb texnansi.enc
hv Helvetica <Helvetica.pfb texnansi.enc
hvo Helvetica-Oblique <Helvetica-Oblique.pfb texnansi.enc
hvb Helvetica-Bold <Helvetica-Bold.pfb texnansi.enc
hvbo Helvetica-BoldOblique <Helvetica-BoldOblique.pfb texnansi.enc
tir Times-Roman <Times-Roman.pfb texnansi.enc
tii Times-Italic <Times-Italic.pfb texnansi.enc
tib Times-Bold <Times-Bold.pfb texnansi.enc
tibi Times-BoldItalic <Times-BoldItalic.pfb texnansi.enc

Re: Presentations->Lecture Notes

[Taco Hoekwater]

>>>>> "NK" == Nigel King <king@dircon.co.uk> writes:

 NK> I am doing some lecturing at the moment and have been using
 NK> foiltex. I have translated about 40 slides to "pre-original" as a
 NK> test to see how that works and I like the outcome. My only
 NK> significant problem was to get the fonts to work. I do not use
 NK> lbr but context has its own naming convention for
 NK> Times-Roman. tir and the lies in the postscript had to be added
 NK> to my .map file. If I have them right perhaps they should be in
 NK> the distribution included in context.map. Possibly they are
 NK> system dependant?

You could have shortcutted this (sorry, too late):

\switchtobodyfont[ber,pos]

switches to berry-style tfm names.

 NK> I am able with foiltex to provide handouts as a nearly normal tex
 NK> document with the change of one line at the begining. Is there an
 NK> equivalent way to do this with context?

Depends on what you want. I don't know what foiltex does.

greetings, taco

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