Re: New module simpleslides

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 01:12, Mohamed Bana wrote:
> thank you both.
>
> is there any chance that this will ship with the minimals, that is, so i
> don't have to download and extract it manually?  i've never been content
> with slides that come as part of ConTeXt, some are too fancy.

No problem, but someone (Patrick?) needs to fix the weird module name first.

Mojca

> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It
>> has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there!
>> simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in
>> ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, text, and images on
>> slides, some typescripts to make use of LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts,
>> and a few pre-defined styles that should make your presentations visually
>> appealing.
>>
>> We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a bug
>> has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt meeting!
>> Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as expected. Our
>> biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being is that the module
>> refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses XeTeX on a regular basis, and
>> we're not familiar with its innards, so we're at a loss here. If you can
>> offer help, you will be most welcome!
>>
>> We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions,
>> etc., so download the module at
>> http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it
>> a whirl!
>>
>> Aditya and Thomas
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