Re: New module simpleslides

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

> Le 31 mars à 21:39:45 "Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> écrit notamment:
>
> | Dear list members,
>>
> | We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides
> | module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now
> | it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of
> | presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles,
> | text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of
> | LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that
> | should make your presentations visually appealing.
>>
> | We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a
> | bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt
> | meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as
> | expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being
> | is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses
> | XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so
> | we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome!
>>
> | We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions,
> | etc., so download the module at
> | http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and
> | give it a whirl!
>>
> | Aditya and Thomas
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for this nice work; I'm doing some tests (mkiv) and for now I see
> no problem.

Thanks for testing. You can also run

mtxrun --script simpleslides --styles=all  (or --styles=<Name of style>)

for testing (you need to have a styles directory at the current path). 
Don't forgot to go for coffee after that.

> In the pdf manual however a BIG BIG (1st of april!) problem on page 16:
> color green is announced on the title, blue actually shown.

Thanks. Fixed in the git version.

Aditya

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