Re: Simplest slides

["Guilherme P. de Freitas" <guilherme@gpfreitas.com>]

In case I wasn't clear "That may be possible" refers to "Having a
blank background may be possible".

And I really don't want to sound ungrateful for all the great software
available out there for free (by the way, I pay for software that
helps me), but it is maybe the 4th time I decide to try to write down
a set of slides using ConTeXt and I can't find a simple template with
a plain background to download. Call me crazy, but I didn't expect
that.

In the webpage for Slides/Presentations in the Context wiki, there is
no complete, working template for a presentation with slides. Sure,
people may want to customize everything, but I would guess 90% of
presentation have a title and an author, lists and pictures. It would
be very helpful to have such a template (as basic as possible, with
those four components). And a template like this would be a great
starting point for people like me, that want to migrate at least part
of their work to ConTeXt (I've had a very positive experience writing
problem sets already), and do that by doing real work, under a time
constraint, instead of setting time aside to learn everything writing
down examples, etc. (which is great, but takes longer) That kind of
audience needs a quick solution, and then references to
customizations. The references for customizations exist; the quick
solutions (templates go a long way in this case), no. And I think the
additional cost of doing that is minimal.

Thanks everybody, but I still have to find my simple template: title,
author, lists, pictures and plain background. I guess I could just go
and write down a large centered text for title, etc. but I was hoping
there would be something already done for very simple slides.

Best,

Guilherme

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Guilherme P. de Freitas
<guilherme@gpfreitas.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I did take a look at simple slides, and in their documentation, there
> is no "plain" background. All the backgrounds have some shape/color to
> it. That may be possible, but I couldn't tell just by spending 3-4 min
> skimming the documentation. As it is something very natural to want (a
> plain background), I assumed that it was either not supported without
> a hack, or too hard to figure out.
>
> Best,
>
> Guilherme
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
> <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 19, 2009, at 5:06 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to make very simple slides with ConTeXt, and I
>>> need a template. I would be very grateful if someone could point me to
>>> one. Think Apple's Keynotes or Lawrence Lessig's presentations. Plain
>>> background, not too much stuff on the slides whenever possible. If you
>>> need a more concrete example, here it is:
>>>
>>> http://archive.gpfreitas.net/work/seminars/en/sisl/turingt-pres.pdf
>>>
>>> It's just that I am experimenting with taking notes while I read a
>>> paper, and make a presentation direct from the notes. For that, using
>>> my favorite text editor is a lot better than using Apple's Keynote
>>> (which is otherwise very nice).
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Guilherme
>>>
>> You could do worse than taking a look at simpleslides:
>> http://modules.contextgarden.net/simpleslides The name really says it all...
>>
>> Thomas
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