Re: Simpleslides presentation: list of topics

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Hi Thomas,

A topic for me is just the title of a section (or chapter): in a presentation it happens that one has a few of them, and in my case certainly less than ten. It is useful to be able to go back to the list of these topics and jump to one of them. But you are right, usually a presentation is in principle linear.

Actually what I wanted to do was just to put a list of my topics on one page (and this can be done easily), and then what is lacking at the moment is a link to jump to that page from any other slide.
For the latter aspect, I think I can cook up a (non optimal) solution for now.

I understand that what I am looking for, may not be justified in most cases, and thus I do not at all suggest that you should modify anything in the simpleslides module… The idea of your module is to remain simple, and simple is beautiful!


Thanks again for your attention and your remarks.
Best regards: OK

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 22:30, Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
> On 15.09.2016 12:11, Otared Kavian wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> Thanks for your quick answer. Actually, mistakenly, I thought you had gave up the simplesildes module, not Aditya… And I included Wolfgang because he follows everything and has insight for everything…
>> 
>> Anyhow, thank you for sharing this nice module. Actually sometimes it is useful to have the interaction and some links working in a presentation, at least in maths. Imagine a case in which you introduce an equation and later on you refer to it and someone asks to show it again.
>> Also it is handy to have a list of topics because this way one can go back easily to the page where the list is and go quickly to such and such topic. Moreover it happens that one can prepare a topic but not show it unless there is a specific demand.
>> 
>> Now, from an esthetic point of view for the swoosh, it is not obvious where to put the list, but when there are only a few topics (as is usually the case) then one can find an appropriate setting of the list.
>> Another solution would be to have the nice visual counter to be interactive and so clicking on a certain number would go to the wanted topic.
>> 
>> In any case thanks again!
>> Best regards: OK
> 
> Hi Otared,
> 
> I think you're best off following Aditya's suggestion. Excuse me for saying that I still don't find your use case quite compelling and would be very reluctant to introduce a change in design which rests on so many ifs (if there are only few topics and if interaction is desired...). Moreover, I'm not quite certain what you're looking for: a special slide that will hold some sort of TOC? Or a list of topics that will be displayed on every slide (as in s-pre-19, provided in the distribution)? What is a "topic": every slide title? Or a sort of section that will encompass several slides?
> 
> As for the counter: that may be possible, but is far beyond my coding ability. There is an interactionmenu which is part of the distribution (see scrn-but.mkvi); maybe it would be easier if you used this rather than the counters provided by simpleslides.
> 
> All best
> 
> Thomas
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