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The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --8323328-895646283-1238591269=:28264 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Le 31 mars =C3=A0 21:39:45 "Thomas A. Schmitz" =C3=A9crit 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=3Dsimpleslides 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=3Dall (or --styles=3D= ) for testing (you need to have a styles directory at the current path).=20 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. 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