horizontal list of sections/topics?

horizontal list of sections/topics?

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

Hi,

this is a quick question before I start coding: for my next presentation 
style, I would like to have a list of topics with the current topic 
highlighted. There are already two styles in simpleslides doing this, 
but this time, I'd like the list to be horizontal, at the bottom of the 
slide. Is there already a listalternative for this? Or is it not too 
complex to have a \definelistalternative do this? Or would it be easier 
not to rely on the list mechanism but code something from scratch?

Thanks for your advice and all best

Thomas
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Re: horizontal list of sections/topics?

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:36:47 +0100
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> this is a quick question before I start coding: for my next
> presentation style, I would like to have a list of topics with the
> current topic highlighted. There are already two styles in
> simpleslides doing this, but this time, I'd like the list to be
> horizontal, at the bottom of the slide. Is there already a
> listalternative for this? Or is it not too complex to have a
> \definelistalternative do this? Or would it be easier not to rely on
> the list mechanism but code something from scratch?
> 
> Thanks for your advice and all best
> 
> Thomas

Hi Thomas,

I use the following code that puts a (vertical) list into the left margin.
The present topic is highlighted.

You will need to modify your list with before=,after=, etc.
Maybe this can give you some ideas.

Alan


I use it as follows:


\def\MarkPage{4} % first 3 slides are title, introduction and outline...

I then put this whenever I want to begin a new topic.

\Topic [A new topic]





\definelist [MyTopics] [criterium=all]
\setuplist  [MyTopics]
        [pagenumber=no,alternative=command,command=\FancyEntry,interaction=all]
\setupinteraction [state=start,color=,contrastcolor=]

\def\MarkPage{0}
\def\MyMark{}
\def\Topic{\dosingleargument\doTopic}
\def\doTopic[#1]{\def\MyMark{#1}\writetolist[MyTopics]{}{#1}}

\define[3]\FancyEntry {
    \framed[width=2.5cm,align={right,nothyphenated},frame=off,offset=0pt]
        {\doifelse \rawstructurelistsecond \MyMark
            {\color [simpleslides:contrastcolor]    {\switchtobodyfont [12pt]#2\par}}
            {\color [simpleslides:altcontrastcolor] {\switchtobodyfont [12pt]#2\par}}
        \blank [small]}
}

\setuptexttexts[margin][\ifnum\realpageno>\MarkPage\vbox{\placelist[MyTopics]}\fi][]
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Re: horizontal list of sections/topics?

[Marco Patzer]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:36:47 +0100
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> for my next presentation style, I would like to have a list of
> topics with the current topic highlighted. There are already two
> styles in simpleslides doing this, but this time, I'd like the
> list to be horizontal, at the bottom of the slide. Is there
> already a listalternative for this?

I did something similar for a few presentations and wrote a small
module:

  https://github.com/mpfusion/context-slide

> Or is it not too complex to have a \definelistalternative do this?
> Or would it be easier not to rely on the list mechanism but code
> something from scratch?

\definelistalternative is suitable for that, have a look at the
code:

  https://github.com/mpfusion/context-slide/blob/master/t-slide.mkvi#L285-L317

In that style the navigation bar is at the top. You can easily move
the layer to the bottom with

  \setuplayer
    [layer:toc:section]
    [y=\dimexpr\paperheight-6\exheight\relax]

Marco
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Re: horizontal list of sections/topics?

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 02/14/2016 12:48 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:
> I did something similar for a few presentations and wrote a small
> module:
>
>    https://github.com/mpfusion/context-slide

Thank you very much, your code was very helpful. I was trying to 
reinvent the wheel – as usually, there was already a solution in ConTeXt...

All best

Thomas
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