Sorry, another side question: Is there no way to set the distance from the title in the TOC to the page number? I tried alternative=c with width, maxwidth, distance... I still can't set it tighter. Going from the far left to the far right is not good from the audience's POV. I saw some example *.tex from the CTX distribution but none of them seems to use that mechanism except for charts-mkiv. That again uses columns. But in my case it doesn't split the content, but creates only the left column. You can try with the documents and code snippets that I pasted. 2017-05-12 23:03 GMT+02:00 cryo shock : > Sorry, me again. After fiddling around I found out why it didn't work: > because \placecontent was *within* the subject that it had to print. Kind > of a Gordian Knot or what was it called...? > I modified my code a little, so that it looks better, but still one thing > is missing... That's what my code looks like now: > > %D I copied the head settings to "title", so that it has the same style as > the rest > %D "title" will not be counted for TOC: > > \setuphead[title][style=\ssbfc, color=foreground:contrast, > alternative=middle] > > \starttext > > \setvariables > ... > > *\startstandardmakeup* %D else the content is placed at the very top, > ignoring the header... (bad) > > * \title{Table of contents}* > * \vfill* > * \placecontent* > * \vfill* > > *\stopstandardmakeup* > > \startslide[title={First Slide}] > ... > > Yet the one thing I am missing is that the TOC is not in the middle of the > page. > I read some time ago that \vfill has no effect at the very beginning or > the very end of a page. A suggestion was to place a "ghost box" or > something like that at the end or top respectively of the document. Yet I > can't finde the article anymore. Can anybody provide some help with this > or is there maybe a more elegant way to solve the whole TOC situation? > > Greetings, Sebastian > > 2017-05-12 22:16 GMT+02:00 cryo shock : > >> I forgot to add that I also tried a modified \setuplist: >> >> \setuplist[subject][width=2cm,margin=2cm] >> and >> \setuplist[subject][margin=2cm] >> >> I also added the following line to the component: >> >> \setupcombinedlist[content][list={chapter,subject,subsubject >> ,section,subsection,slide}] >> >> Yet the Toc page stays blank... >> >> 2017-05-12 22:08 GMT+02:00 cryo shock : >> >>> Hi guys, I downloaded a sample presentation with component and example >>> presentation from a link off of ctxwiki. I will attach both files and a >>> premade PDF that shows what I mean. >>> >>> So far I edited the component a little in display style, yet I don't >>> know why I can't get a simple table of content on the second slide. >>> >>> In the component I found the following code: >>> >>> \definehead >>> [slide] >>> [subject] >>> [ >>> style=\ssbfc, >>> color=foreground:contrast, >>> alternative=middle, >>> page=yes >>> ] >>> >>> So I understand that the head called slide comes from the head subject, >>> which by default isn't shown in the table of content. So I searched ctxwiki >>> for table of content and modified the above setup to >>> >>> \definehead >>> [slide] >>> [subject] % default: subject >>> [ >>> style=\ssbfc, >>> color=foreground:contrast, >>> alternative=middle, >>> page=yes, >>> * incrementnumber=yes, % keep track of the number* >>> * number=no % but don't show it* >>> ] >>> >>> I also added the following line: >>> >>> \setuplist[subject][width=2cm] >>> >>> The example .tex then starts with >>> >>> \starttext >>> >>> \setvariables >>> ... >>> \startslide >>> ... >>> \stopslide >>> ... >>> \stoptext >>> >>> So I inserted another \startslide \stopslide with \placecontent in >>> between: >>> >>> \startslide[title={T.o.c.}] >>> \placecontent >>> \stopslide >>> >>> Yet the rendered PDF shows only a blank page where the TOC is supposed >>> to be. >>> >>> Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Sebastian >>> >> >> >