Re: Presentation

Re: Presentation

[piskala upendran]

hello valle,

I did test your example. It complained as you said.
however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the
following changes.

a. remove the small square in front of the
\usemodule[pre-08].
b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of
reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any
contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled
smoothly. you can try.

regards

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Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

Thank you all,

Yes, I opened the file with jedit and saw the small square.
Strange, I copied and pasted form the tex file into the new tex file. 
All with TeXShop.
  Now, I have (luckily) the announced problem with fonts.
I'm not on my machine and I cannot try the changes you all proposed.
As soon as I can (monday), I will test all.

Thanks again (it's a great community)


-a-





On 6 Aug 2005, at 15:53, piskala upendran wrote:

> hello valle,
>
> I did test your example. It complained as you said.
> however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the
> following changes.
>
> a. remove the small square in front of the
> \usemodule[pre-08].
> b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of
> reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any
> contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled
> smoothly. you can try.
>
> regards
>
> upendran
>
>
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Re: Presentation

[Taco Hoekwater]

piskala upendran wrote:
> hello valle,
> 
> I did test your example. It complained as you said.
> however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the
> following changes.
> 
> a. remove the small square in front of the
> \usemodule[pre-08].
> b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of
> reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any
> contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled
> smoothly. you can try.

The file was never converted from dutch to english.
\citaat should be \quotation

Taco

Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

First I changed all the tex files and it seemed it changed nothing in 
the output.
But:
Then I discovered that I have two context installations on my machine, 
and that I was modifying the tex files of the the one not used by 
TeXShop.
(The one TeXShop uses is under /usr/..., and I wasn't able to fin it 
through mac finder: finder doesn't list its content. I was modifying 
files lying in the installation of /sw/... folder).
So, everything seems alright.

Thanks a lot to all, now I know about base folder, and about my real 
context engine.

(In any case, I still don't know why I should have two contexts, I only 
installed TeXShop: ?)

Best

-a-


On 7 Aug 2005, at 08:40, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> piskala upendran wrote:
>> hello valle,
>> I did test your example. It complained as you said.
>> however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the
>> following changes.
>> a. remove the small square in front of the
>> \usemodule[pre-08].
>> b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of
>> reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any
>> contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled
>> smoothly. you can try.
>
> The file was never converted from dutch to english.
> \citaat should be \quotation
>
> Taco
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Re: Presentation

[piskala upendran]

hello Taco, 

thanks. Now  i can use reich example also in future.

cheers
upendran


piskala upendran wrote:
> hello valle,
> 
> I did test your example. It complained as you said.
> however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the
> following changes.
> 
> a. remove the small square in front of the
> \usemodule[pre-08].
> b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of
> reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any
> contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled
> smoothly. you can try.

The file was never converted from dutch to english.
\citaat should be \quotation

Taco



		
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Re:Presentation

[piskala upendran]

Hi, Jessica

The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
the end of the module you have the examples are given.
copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
no name from with the example was taken.

\usemodule[pre-**]
 and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
requirement.

thanks
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Re: Presentation

[Matthias Weber]

Hi Jessica et al too,

I can only support what Upendran wrote. A while ago I asked about 
presentation styles on this list,
and got the hints to look at the source of them. You do not even to 
write your own style in the beginning,
you can just overwrite the definitions to change the settings.
I was reluctant to look at source  code at first, but it was
much simpler and more educational I had imagined.

Matthias

On Aug 3, 2005, at 8:31 AM, piskala upendran wrote:

> Hi, Jessica
>
> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
> no name from with the example was taken.
>
> \usemodule[pre-**]
>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
> requirement.
>
> thanks
> upendran
>
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Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

Hi,
very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm pretty 
new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).

I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.

Here it is:

%D \module
%D   [      file=s-pre-22,

\f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
%D The demo text.

\starttext
etc.


Now,  I compiled but I obtained:

! Undefined control sequence.
l.9 \TitlePage
               {Indeed}{The Title Page}


What am I missing?

Thanks a lot

-a-




On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:

> Hi, Jessica
>
> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
> no name from with the example was taken.
>
> \usemodule[pre-**]
>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
> requirement.
>
> thanks
> upendran
>
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Re: Presentation

[Matthias Weber]

It does work here. Make sure that your file begins like

\usemodule[s-pre-22]

\starttext

\TitlePage{Indeed}{The Title Page}

\StartSummary{Alpha}{Title}
   A simple and not too long text just to show the topic.
   A simple and not too long text just to show the topic.
   A simple and not too long text just to show the topic.
\StopSummary

etc etc

and that it finds s-pre-22.tex . I does so here without problems, and 
I'm sure it should, but if you still get that error message,
copy s-pre-22.tex into the same directory as the sample file, and try 
again. If it works now, you should reinstall ConTeXt at some point
to make sure you have a working installation, if it doesn't, you need 
the help of somebody more knowledgeable...

Matthias



On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:

> Hi,
> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm pretty 
> new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).
>
> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>
> Here it is:
>
> %D \module
> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>
> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
> %D The demo text.
>
> \starttext
> etc.
>
>
> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.9 \TitlePage
>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> -a-
>
>
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>
>> Hi, Jessica
>>
>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>
>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>> requirement.
>>
>> thanks
>> upendran
>>
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Re: Presentation

[Mojca Miklavec]

> %D \module
> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
> 
> \usemodule[s-pre-22]

The files with s-name and t-name are included with \usemodule[name],
so you only have to try
    \usemodule[pre-22]
or
    \usemodule[pre-cycle]
(see cont-fil.tex for other synonyms)

Mojca

Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

Thanks a lot (as usual),
It changes nothing: I obtain same results.
So I'm gonna ask something I was going to ask some months ago.

I'm using TeXShop (on OSX 10.3) to create context  files.
It comes with his version of Context (and in fact I have the s-pre- 
files) and I use this "internal" version to typeset the context files. 
But I have to say I don't know exactly how the whole context works from 
Texshop.
Could troubles depend on this non-standard installation?

Best

-a-
On 4 Aug 2005, at 07:28, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

>> %D \module
>> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>>
>> \usemodule[s-pre-22]
>
> The files with s-name and t-name are included with \usemodule[name],
> so you only have to try
>     \usemodule[pre-22]
> or
>     \usemodule[pre-cycle]
> (see cont-fil.tex for other synonyms)
>
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Re: Presentation

[Hans Hagen]

andrea valle wrote:

> Thanks a lot (as usual),
> It changes nothing: I obtain same results.
> So I'm gonna ask something I was going to ask some months ago.
>
> I'm using TeXShop (on OSX 10.3) to create context  files.
> It comes with his version of Context (and in fact I have the s-pre- 
> files) and I use this "internal" version to typeset the context files. 
> But I have to say I don't know exactly how the whole context works 
> from Texshop.
> Could troubles depend on this non-standard installation?

it should work ok with texshop 

Hans 

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Re: Presentation

[Matthias Weber]

I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's iinstaller).

You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also 
s-pre-22.tex?
This would explain it ---

Matthias

On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:

> Hi,
> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm pretty 
> new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).
>
> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>
> Here it is:
>
> %D \module
> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>
> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
> %D The demo text.
>
> \starttext
> etc.
>
>
> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.9 \TitlePage
>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
> -a-
>
>
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>
>> Hi, Jessica
>>
>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>
>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>> requirement.
>>
>> thanks
>> upendran
>>
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Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the 
demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.


% demoTest
\f\usemodule[pre-08]
%D The demo text.

\starttext

\TitlePage
   {Fancy Styles:\\layers}

\StartIdea
   \StartSample
     \input tufte
   \StopSample
   \StartText
     \input reich
   \StopText
\StopIdea

\StartIdea
   \StartSample
     \input knuth
   \StopSample
   \StartText
     \input reich
   \StopText
\StopIdea

\stoptext

% EOF

I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what 
to I should check
My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base

I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(

Thanks!

-a-


On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:

> I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's iinstaller).
>
> You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also 
> s-pre-22.tex?
> This would explain it ---
>
> Matthias
>
> On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm 
>> pretty new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).
>>
>> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
>> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>>
>> Here it is:
>>
>> %D \module
>> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>>
>> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
>> %D The demo text.
>>
>> \starttext
>> etc.
>>
>>
>> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>>
>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>> l.9 \TitlePage
>>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>>
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> -a-
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, Jessica
>>>
>>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>>
>>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>>> requirement.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> upendran
>>>
>>> __________________________________________________
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>>>
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>> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
>> Università degli Studi di Torino
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Re: Presentation

[Mojca Miklavec]

andrea valle wrote:
> I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the
> demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.
> 
> 
> % demoTest
> \usemodule[pre-08]
> %D The demo text.
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \TitlePage
>    {Fancy Styles:\\layers}
> 
> \StartIdea
>    \StartSample
>      \input tufte
>    \StopSample
>    \StartText
>      \input reich
>    \StopText
> \StopIdea
> 
> \StartIdea
>    \StartSample
>      \input knuth
>    \StopSample
>    \StartText
>      \input reich
>    \StopText
> \StopIdea
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> % EOF
> 
> I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what
> to I should check
> My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
> 
> I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -a-

Hi, Andrea,

Just no panic, everything can be solved.

I noticed two problems:

1. remove \input reich (or replace the "reich" it with any other tex
file residing in the tex/context/sample/ directory)
(reich.tex is written in Dutch interface, I don't know if that's
intentionally, but as nobody ever uses it, nobody else noticed that
anyway. Probably either the reich.tex itself or at least the demo
example should be changed in the official distribution.)

2. \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] in s-pre-08.tex
I think this is already a deprecated way for font selecting now, but
as have more problems than knowledge & benefit about/from fonts,
someone else has to tell you what's the best way to overcome this.

Mojca

Re: Presentation

[Saji N. Hameed]

Hi Andrea,

I would like to add to Mojca's second comment.  A possible way to deal
with the font problem is to use a font that is already in your system.
I tried using the Lucida Bright Font and it worked. First I copied
s-pre-08.tex into my working directory and renamed it to my-pre.tex.
Then I changed the following line
>>>>>>              \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt]

into
 		    \setupbodyfont[lbr,10pt]

and used
\usemodule[my-pre] instead of \usemodule[pre-08] in my source file.

saji

p.s: If you have the time, a great way to learn ConTeXt is to
      go through the source code of the modules and use the ConTeXt manuals
      to understand them...


On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> andrea valle wrote:
>> I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the
>> demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.
>>
>>
>> % demoTest
>> \usemodule[pre-08]
>> %D The demo text.
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \TitlePage
>>    {Fancy Styles:\\layers}
>>
>> \StartIdea
>>    \StartSample
>>      \input tufte
>>    \StopSample
>>    \StartText
>>      \input reich
>>    \StopText
>> \StopIdea
>>
>> \StartIdea
>>    \StartSample
>>      \input knuth
>>    \StopSample
>>    \StartText
>>      \input reich
>>    \StopText
>> \StopIdea
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> % EOF
>>
>> I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what
>> to I should check
>> My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
>>
>> I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -a-
>
> Hi, Andrea,
>
> Just no panic, everything can be solved.
>
> I noticed two problems:
>
> 1. remove \input reich (or replace the "reich" it with any other tex
> file residing in the tex/context/sample/ directory)
> (reich.tex is written in Dutch interface, I don't know if that's
> intentionally, but as nobody ever uses it, nobody else noticed that
> anyway. Probably either the reich.tex itself or at least the demo
> example should be changed in the official distribution.)
>
> 2. \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] in s-pre-08.tex
> I think this is already a deprecated way for font selecting now, but
> as have more problems than knowledge & benefit about/from fonts,
> someone else has to tell you what's the best way to overcome this.
>
> Mojca
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Re: Presentation

[Matthias Weber]

Hi Andrea,

I think there are now two different issues causing problems here.

i) There is a font problem with s-pre-08, as noted by Mojca and Saji,
but you don't get far enough to run into it.
On Aug 5, 2005, at 5:07 PM, andrea valle wrote:

ii) You are using funny characters in your file. When I copy and paste 
your input into TeXShop,
I get the same error message, which baffled me quite a bit. Then I  
noticed when I remove the blank line
between % demoTest and \TitlePage, the latter will be become colored 
like a comment. This means that
your line end characters aren't the right ones. You can make this 
plainly visible by opening your file
with something like BBedit. There is a funny character in front of 
\TitlePage. You need to get rid of it.


Unfortunately, I have no idea how you managed to get the character in 
the first place. Are you using MacOsRoman as the encoding
(shows in "Save As")?

Try to paste the following into TeXShop (I guess you will then run into 
a font issue later...)

\usemodule[pre-08]

\starttext
\TitlePage
   {Fancy Styles:\\layers}

\StartIdea
   \StartSample
     \input tufte
   \StopSample
   \StartText
     \input reich
   \StopText
\StopIdea

\StartIdea
   \StartSample
     \input knuth
   \StopSample
   \StartText
     \input reich
   \StopText
\StopIdea

\stoptext



Matthias


> I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the 
> demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.
>
>
> % demoTest
> \f\usemodule[pre-08]
> %D The demo text.
>
> \starttext
>
> \TitlePage
>   {Fancy Styles:\\layers}
>
> \StartIdea
>   \StartSample
>     \input tufte
>   \StopSample
>   \StartText
>     \input reich
>   \StopText
> \StopIdea
>
> \StartIdea
>   \StartSample
>     \input knuth
>   \StopSample
>   \StartText
>     \input reich
>   \StopText
> \StopIdea
>
> \stoptext
>
> % EOF
>
> I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what 
> to I should check
> My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
>
> I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
>
> Thanks!
>
> -a-
>
>
> On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>> I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's iinstaller).
>>
>> You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also 
>> s-pre-22.tex?
>> This would explain it ---
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm 
>>> pretty new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).
>>>
>>> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
>>> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>> %D \module
>>> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>>>
>>> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
>>> %D The demo text.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>>>
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.9 \TitlePage
>>>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>>
>>> -a-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, Jessica
>>>>
>>>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>>>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>>>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>>>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>>>
>>>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>>>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>>>> requirement.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> upendran
>>>>
>>>> __________________________________________________
>>>> Do You Yahoo!?
>>>> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>>>> http://mail.yahoo.com
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Andrea Valle
>>> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
>>> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
>>> Università degli Studi di Torino
>>> andrea.valle@unito.it
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
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>>
> Andrea Valle
> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
> Università degli Studi di Torino
> andrea.valle@unito.it
>
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Re: Presentation

[정 달영]

I copied the demoTest file and try to compile it.
And I got a 'undefined control sequence.' message as follows. I  
confirmed the existence of the file "s-pre-08.tex" in the  ../context/ 
base/ folder.
Any help, please.

********************************
system          : contest.top loaded
(./contest.top
specials        : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials        : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex)
specials        : fdf loaded
)
specials        : fdf,tpd loaded
) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)
(./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./ 
contest.tuo)
(./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)
systems         : begin file contest at line 5
! Undefined control sequence.
l.7 \TitlePage

? x
No pages of output.
************************

Thanks,

Dalyoung



  , 2005. 08. 06, 오전 7:07, andrea valle 작성:

> I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the  
> demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.
>
>
> % demoTest
> \f\usemodule[pre-08]
> %D The demo text.
>
> \starttext
>
> \TitlePage
>   {Fancy Styles:\\layers}
>
> \StartIdea
>   \StartSample
>     \input tufte
>   \StopSample
>   \StartText
>     \input reich
>   \StopText
> \StopIdea
>
> \StartIdea
>   \StartSample
>     \input knuth
>   \StopSample
>   \StartText
>     \input reich
>   \StopText
> \StopIdea
>
> \stoptext
>
> % EOF
>
> I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know  
> what to I should check
> My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
>
> I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
>
> Thanks!
>
> -a-
>
>
> On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:
>
>
>> I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's iinstaller).
>>
>> You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also s- 
>> pre-22.tex?
>> This would explain it ---
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm  
>>> pretty new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).
>>>
>>> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
>>> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>>>
>>> Here it is:
>>>
>>> %D \module
>>> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>>>
>>> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
>>> %D The demo text.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>>>
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> l.9 \TitlePage
>>>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>>>
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot
>>>
>>> -a-
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, Jessica
>>>>
>>>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>>>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>>>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>>>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>>>
>>>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>>>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>>>> requirement.
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>> upendran
>>>>
>>>> __________________________________________________
>>>> Do You Yahoo!?
>>>> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>>>> http://mail.yahoo.com
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> ntg-context mailing list
>>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>>>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Andrea Valle
>>> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
>>> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
>>> Università degli Studi di Torino
>>> andrea.valle@unito.it
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> ntg-context mailing list
>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>
>>
>>
> Andrea Valle
> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
> Università degli Studi di Torino
> andrea.valle@unito.it
>
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Re: Presentation

[andrea valle]

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It's probably the problem I had of a strange character inserted before.
Try to open the file with some editor (BBedit, Jedit) and to see if 
there is a strange character).
If so, then it won't compile. That's ok: it depends on other things. 
You can refer to the previous mails in the thread.

Best

-a-

On 9 Aug 2005, at 07:27, 정 달영 wrote:

> I copied the demoTest file and try to compile it.
> And I got a 'undefined control sequence.' message as follows. I 
> confirmed the existence of the file "s-pre-08.tex" in the  
> ../context/base/ folder.
> Any help, please.
>
> ********************************
> system          : contest.top loaded
> (./contest.top
> specials        : loading definition file tpd
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
> specials        : loading definition file fdf
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex)
> specials        : fdf loaded
> )
> specials        : fdf,tpd loaded
> ) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)
> (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) 
> (./contest.tuo)
> (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)
> systems         : begin file contest at line 5
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.7 \TitlePage
>
> ? x
> No pages of output.
> ************************
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dalyoung
>
>
>
>  , 2005. 08. 06, 오전 7:07, andrea valle 작성:
>
>> I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put in the 
>> demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.
>>
>>
>> % demoTest
>> \f\usemodule[pre-08]
>> %D The demo text.
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \TitlePage
>>   {Fancy Styles:\\layers}
>>
>> \StartIdea
>>   \StartSample
>>     \input tufte
>>   \StopSample
>>   \StartText
>>     \input reich
>>   \StopText
>> \StopIdea
>>
>> \StartIdea
>>   \StartSample
>>     \input knuth
>>   \StopSample
>>   \StartText
>>     \input reich
>>   \StopText
>> \StopIdea
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> % EOF
>>
>> I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know 
>> what to I should check
>> My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base
>>
>> I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -a-
>>
>>
>> On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's iinstaller).
>>>
>>> You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also 
>>> s-pre-22.tex?
>>> This would explain it ---
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm 
>>>> pretty new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very 
>>>> basically).
>>>>
>>>> I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.
>>>> I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.
>>>>
>>>> Here it is:
>>>>
>>>> %D \module
>>>> %D   [      file=s-pre-22,
>>>>
>>>> \f\usemodule[s-pre-22]
>>>> %D The demo text.
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now,  I compiled but I obtained:
>>>>
>>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>>> l.9 \TitlePage
>>>>               {Indeed}{The Title Page}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>
>>>> -a-
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Jessica
>>>>>
>>>>> The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At
>>>>> the end of the module you have the examples are given.
>>>>> copy the examples in seperate file and add the module
>>>>> no name from with the example was taken.
>>>>>
>>>>> \usemodule[pre-**]
>>>>>  and compile the files. iam sure you can select your
>>>>> flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your
>>>>> requirement.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> upendran
>>>>>
>>>>> __________________________________________________
>>>>> Do You Yahoo!?
>>>>> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
>>>>> http://mail.yahoo.com
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> ntg-context mailing list
>>>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>>>>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Andrea Valle
>>>> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
>>>> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
>>>> Università degli Studi di Torino
>>>> andrea.valle@unito.it
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> ntg-context mailing list
>>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
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>>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> ntg-context@ntg.nl
>>> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Andrea Valle
>> Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
>> Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
>> Università degli Studi di Torino
>> andrea.valle@unito.it
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> ntg-context mailing list
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>
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>
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Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza"
Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione
Università degli Studi di Torino
andrea.valle@unito.it

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It's probably the problem I had of a strange character inserted before.

Try to open the file with some editor (BBedit, Jedit) and to see if
there is a strange character).

If so, then it won't compile. That's ok: it depends on other things.
You can refer to the previous mails in the thread.


Best


-a-


On 9 Aug 2005, at 07:27,
<fontfamily><param>AppleGothic</param>정</fontfamily> <fontfamily><param>AppleGothic</param>달영</fontfamily>
wrote:


<excerpt>I copied the demoTest file and try to compile it.

And I got a 'undefined control sequence.' message as follows. I
confirmed the existence of the file "s-pre-08.tex" in the 
../context/base/ folder.

Any help, please.


********************************

system          : contest.top loaded

(./contest.top

specials        : loading definition file tpd

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex

specials        : loading definition file fdf

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex)

specials        : fdf loaded

)

specials        : fdf,tpd loaded

) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)

(./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)
(./contest.tuo)

(./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo) (./contest.tuo)

systems         : begin file contest at line 5

! Undefined control sequence.

l.7 \TitlePage


? x

No pages of output.

************************


Thanks,


Dalyoung




 , 2005. 08. 06, <fontfamily><param>AppleGothic</param>오전</fontfamily>
7:07, andrea valle
<fontfamily><param>AppleGothic</param>작성</fontfamily>:


<excerpt>I obtain the same results from this file named demoTest put
in the demoTest folder on my desktop, starting form s-pre-p.



% demoTest

\f\usemodule[pre-08]

%D The demo text.


\starttext


\TitlePage

  {Fancy Styles:\\layers}


\StartIdea

  \StartSample

    \input tufte

  \StopSample

  \StartText

    \input reich

  \StopText

\StopIdea


\StartIdea

  \StartSample

    \input knuth

  \StopSample

  \StartText

    \input reich

  \StopText

\StopIdea


\stoptext


% EOF


I'm looking at the console to see what's happening but don't know what
to I should check

My s-pre files are in /sw/share/texmf/tex/context/base


I was looking forward to make my presentations... :-(


Thanks!


-a-



On 4 Aug 2005, at 22:32, Matthias Weber wrote:



<excerpt>I have the same setup (TeX installation via Gerben's
iinstaller).


You haven't by any chance called the file you are TeXing also
s-pre-22.tex?

This would explain it ---


Matthias


On Aug 3, 2005, at 3:36 PM, andrea valle wrote:



<excerpt>Hi,

very interesting. But I'm having troubles. Probably because I'm pretty
new to this kind of stuff (I'm using ConTeXt very basically).


I made a demoTest.tex filestarting from s-pre-22.tex.

I copied the demo part of s-pre-22.


Here it is:


%D \module

%D   [      file=s-pre-22,


\f\usemodule[s-pre-22]

%D The demo text.


\starttext

etc.



Now,  I compiled but I obtained:


! Undefined control sequence.

l.9 \TitlePage

              {Indeed}{The Title Page}



What am I missing?


Thanks a lot


-a-





On 3 Aug 2005, at 15:31, piskala upendran wrote:



<excerpt>Hi, Jessica


The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At

the end of the module you have the examples are given.

copy the examples in seperate file and add the module

no name from with the example was taken.


\usemodule[pre-**]

 and compile the files. iam sure you can select your

flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your

requirement.


thanks

upendran


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Università degli Studi di Torino

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Presentation

[Jessica Holle]

Hi,

I've searching for a dokumentation how to build a presentation, like
in Powerpoint but better :-) with ConTeXt.
I haven't found somethink in the PDF's on the Pragma page and on the
Wiki.
Only the Raw Steps module, which I doesn't understand.
Has somebody information to this theme?

Greetings

Jessica

Re: Presentation

[Brooks Moses]

At 12:09 AM 8/3/2005, Jessica Holle wrote:
>I've searching for a dokumentation how to build a presentation, like
>in Powerpoint but better :-) with ConTeXt.
>I haven't found somethink in the PDF's on the Pragma page and on the
>Wiki.
>Only the Raw Steps module, which I doesn't understand.
>Has somebody information to this theme?

There should be quite a bit around; I think you're just not finding 
it.  (Unfortunately, it's rather late here, so I shall leave that to 
someone else....)

One thing that you might find useful as an example, though, is a 
presentation that I recently created in ConTeXt, and then put online (with 
both the PDF and the ConTeXt source available -- though, without the images 
and the fonts, it's a little hard to process directly).  That's on my 
webpage here:

   http://dpdx.net/research/papers/ILASS2005_Moses_abstract.html

(See the "Slides: tex" and "pdf" links.)

- Brooks

Re: Presentation

[Maurice Diamantini]

Le 3 août 05 à 10:02, Brooks Moses a écrit :


> One thing that you might find useful as an example, though, is a  
> presentation that I recently created in ConTeXt, and then put  
> online (with both the PDF and the ConTeXt source available --  
> though, without the images and the fonts, it's a little hard to  
> process directly).  That's on my webpage here:
>
>   http://dpdx.net/research/papers/ILASS2005_Moses_abstract.html
>
> (See the "Slides: tex" and "pdf" links.)
>

Nice "self contained" slides, thanks you for the model;
but the "pdf" link for the slides actualy links to the tex files
(changing the ".tex" suffix to ".pdf" is OK)


> - Brooks
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Re: Presentation

[Wolfgang Zillig]

Hello Brooks,

nice presentation! With which software do you produce your graphics?

Wolfgang

Maurice Diamantini schrieb:

>
> Le 3 août 05 à 10:02, Brooks Moses a écrit :
>
>
>> One thing that you might find useful as an example, though, is a  
>> presentation that I recently created in ConTeXt, and then put  online 
>> (with both the PDF and the ConTeXt source available --  though, 
>> without the images and the fonts, it's a little hard to  process 
>> directly).  That's on my webpage here:
>>
>>   http://dpdx.net/research/papers/ILASS2005_Moses_abstract.html
>>
>> (See the "Slides: tex" and "pdf" links.)
>>
>
> Nice "self contained" slides, thanks you for the model;
> but the "pdf" link for the slides actualy links to the tex files
> (changing the ".tex" suffix to ".pdf" is OK)
>
>
>> - Brooks
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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Re: Presentation

[Brooks Moses]

At 06:25 AM 8/3/2005, Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
>Hello Brooks,
>
>nice presentation! With which software do you produce your graphics?

Thanks!

I used TecPlot for those, since our department has a site 
license.  (Unfortunately, it seems to be one of the sorts of software that 
is difficult to purchase as an individual, so I'll have to find something 
else once I graduate.)

For importing the images into ConTeXt, I "printed" them using Acrobat 5.0's 
"print to PDF" driver, and then did some minor cropping before importing them.

>Maurice Diamantini schrieb:
>>Nice "self contained" slides, thanks you for the model;
>>but the "pdf" link for the slides actualy links to the tex files
>>(changing the ".tex" suffix to ".pdf" is OK)

Ah, indeed.  That should be corrected now; thanks for telling me.

- Brooks

Re: Presentation

[Mojca Miklavec]

Jessica Holle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've searching for a dokumentation how to build a presentation, like
> in Powerpoint but better :-) with ConTeXt.
> I haven't found somethink in the PDF's on the Pragma page and on the
> Wiki.

> Only the Raw Steps module, which I doesn't understand.
> Has somebody information to this theme?

Building a presentation in ConTeXt is not much different than preparing 
an usual ConTeXt document, with some exceptions:

- \usemodule[pre-general] includes some general definitions that you 
probably want to use

- you probably have to use another page dimensions
   \setuppapersize % (already in pre-general)
       [S6][S6]
- you probably want to have full-screen
   \setupinteractionscreen
       [option=max]
- you may want to give some dynamics to the slides
   - growing pictures
     - see 13.6/page 514 of metafun-s.pdf
     - see animated construction of euro symbol under
       http://contextgarden.net/Sample_documents
   - growing content (3 completely different ways)
     - archive.contextgarden.net/message/20040804.222358.500e9264.html
     - Patrick's http://levana.de/emacs/elisp/elug/
     - David Mungner's RawSteps module (steps, but without JavaScript)
- you may want to have hyperlinks (next page, previous page)
- you probably want lots of pictures
   \externalfigure[name][width=...] (probably surrounded by \placefigure)

- ask Mr. Google for animation or presentation and add
   site:contextgarden.net or site:pragma-ade.com

Just an interesting presentation:
http://www.loria.fr/~roegel/TeX/context-gut2002.pdf (or .tex)

[tex]/tex/context/base/s-pre-*.tex are far the best way to learn a 
couple of things. For a beginner it's a lot new stuff at once (I year 
ago I spent much more time figuring out how to do something than I 
actually spent on the content for the slides), but once you're familiar 
with the basics, these files are pretty clear to undestand.

If you use \usemodule[pre-*], you can build a presentation pretty fast. 
You can change colors or redefine some other things that you see in the 
source of these modules. Later on you can start building your own styles 
or, if you don't need fancy slides at all, all you have to do is to 
define the proper page size, background color, style of section titles, ...

And don't forget about:
- ms-cb.en.pdf
- art-pres.pdf (ignore \presentationstep as it doesn't seem to work)
- cont-eni.pdf
- metafun-s.pdf (or any other metapost material: "learning metapost by 
doing", "metapost manual", ...) if you want to make some fancy graphics 
by yourself.

Have fun preparing your slides,
	Mojca