From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Quick slide templates
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220091630.GG3733@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130220041157.GA26927@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in>
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On 2013–02–19 Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I am making a presentation that involves some simple animations. The
> way I make those animations is by:
>
> 1. Stopping page numbering.
> 2. Flipping through the same slide repeated, but with img0, img1, img2 etc.
> 3. Start page numbering.
>
> The problem with my naïve approach of repeating slides is that fixing
> a spelling error or making changes implies that I have to do it several
> times for an “animated” slide, and is error-prone.
You could use buffers:
\newdimen\cnt
\starttext
\startbuffer [greenbar]
\blackrule[width=4cm, height=5mm, color=green]
\stopbuffer
\dorecurse{10}{%%
\blackrule[width=\textwidth]
\advance\cnt1cm \hskip\cnt
\getbuffer[greenbar]\page}
\stoptext
Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 4:11 Kumar Appaiah
2013-02-20 9:16 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2013-02-20 10:58 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2013-02-20 16:27 ` Kumar Appaiah
2013-02-20 16:27 ` Kumar Appaiah
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