Re: simpleslides help needed

From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: pavneet_arora@waroc.com,
	mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: simpleslides help needed
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:33:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7C274424-D006-4121-BF27-7E31CD803364@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5006062E.8090602@waroc.com>

Am 18.07.2012 um 02:41 schrieb Pavneet Arora:

> Hello all,
> 
> I am here at TUG 2012 updating the presentation that I am to give in the morning.
> 
> I have had a couple of lingering questions regarding simpleslides that I
> thought I would put out there.  They are not show stoppers, and I have
> lived with them in my other presentations.  It is just that with my
> brain on TeX (and ConTeXt) for the past few days, I thought that I would
> try to resolve them once and for all.
> 
> 1.  Fonts
> 
> I would like to specify separate mainfont and bodyfont using the
> simplefonts module (or some other consistent mechanism).
> 
> I have read the thread from:
> 
> http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/056495.html
> 
> and have tried to split up Wolfgang's suggestion into the two parts.  I
> have tried:
> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts][size=18pt]
> \setmainfont[grandesignneueserif]
> 
> \setupbodyfont[dejavuserif]
> 
> which gets me the title font, but not the body font.
> 
> The other approach:
> 
> \definetypeface[mainface][rm][serif][DejaVu Serif][default]
> \definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans][DejaVu Sans][default]
> \definetypeface[mainface][tt][mono][Inconsolata][default]
> \setupbodyfont[mainface]
> 
> also doesn't seem to work at all.  I get what I believe to be Latin
> Modern Sans across the board.
> 
> I have resorted to using one of the default fonts via the module switch
> for now, but would like to customize the font selection to my taste.

I suggest to look into the manual for the simple slides module how to change fonts
because the module has some control which font is used.

> 2.  Margins
> 
> I have the following slide, where only the right margin is affected.  I
> have tried variations on backspace, width and margin but haven't gotten
> the left margin to move.
> 
>>>>> 
> 
> \definelayout[quotation][leftmargin=1.5in,rightmargin=1.5in]
> 
> \SlideTitle{An exception: Lotus Improv, an exceptional spreadsheet}
> \blank
> \setuplayout[quotation]
> \quotation{Pito Salas, a developer at ATG, decided to attack this problem. After a few months of studying existing real-world examples, it became clear that the data, views of that data, and the formulas that acted on that data were very separate concepts. Yet in every case, the existing spreadsheet programs required the user to type all of these items into the same (typically single) sheet's cells.}
> \par
> \setuplayout[reset]
> \startalignment[flushright]
> \blank[2*big]
> {\em Source:  Wikipedia:Lotus Improv}
> 
> <<<<
> 
> I am sure that it is something simple that I am missing here, but any
> guidance would be most appreciated.

You can’t use a customized layout to change the margins of a part of the page only,
use the quotation environment or put the quotation in a narrower environment.

Wolfgang
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