From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: "Saša Janiška" <gour@atmarama.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ConTeXt vs Beamer
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:55:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160125135504.5b406e05@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453752666.2681.94.camel@atmarama.com>
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:11:06 +0100
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?
Beamer presentations look like ... beamer presentations.
For something simple using ConTeXt, you might want to look at the
simpleslides module. That could be a starting point.
Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-25 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-25 20:11 Saša Janiška
2016-01-25 20:55 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2016-01-25 21:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-26 10:16 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-26 8:56 ` Hans Hagen
2016-01-26 11:00 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-26 10:11 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-25 21:56 ` Otared Kavian
2016-01-26 11:04 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-26 7:34 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2016-01-26 8:57 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-02 9:03 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-26 10:22 ` Saša Janiška
2016-01-26 11:22 ` Jan U. Hasecke
2016-01-26 14:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-01-26 15:37 Jeong Dal
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