From: Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Quick slide templates
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:27:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220162742.GB22639@bluemoon.alumni.iitm.ac.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130220091630.GG3733@homerow>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:16:30AM +0100, Marco Patzer 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
This is a lovely solution, and I'll put off learning LuaTeX for
now. Thanks! :-)
Kumar
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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
2013-02-20 10:58 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2013-02-20 16:27 ` Kumar Appaiah
2013-02-20 16:27 ` Kumar Appaiah [this message]
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