Re: Simplest slides

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Guilherme P. de Freitas wrote:

> It just occurred to me that a style was not a necessary thing, but an
> optional parameter, and that without it, the style would end up being
> "plain". That was the case, and therefore my problem is essentially
> solved. Thanks everybody, especially Thomas.
>
> Question: how do I get white text on black background? I tried
> adapting some commands from the Wiki, and that didn't work. Searching
> for the word "background" in the 'simple slides' documentation led me
> to information that was unrelated to what I wanted.

Normally, you can just say
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=black]

But simpleslides resets the page background on each page so you need to 
play nice with simpleslides

\usemodule[simpleslides]

\setupcolors[textcolor=white]

\startuseMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}
   StartPage ;
   fill Page withcolor black ;
   StopPage ;
\stopuseMPgraphic

\defineoverlay
   [simpleslides:background:horizontal]
   [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

\defineoverlay
   [simpleslides:background:vertical]
   [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

\defineoverlay
   [simpleslides:background:title]
   [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}]

% Now for the rest of the presentation

\setupTitle
   [title={Presentation Title},
    author={F.~Author, S.~Another},
    date={Date / Occasion}]


\starttext

\placeTitle

\SlideTitle{A quote}

\input tufte

\stoptext


> For the sake of everybody out there wanting to use ConTeXt for their 
> presentations, it would be very nice to have a link for a complete 
> template, with title, author, a list and a picture in the Wiki. I 
> slightly modified the simplest example in 'simple slides' (taking away 
> the style, and including a list and a figure). It is available here:
>
> http://archive.gpfreitas.net/coursework/grad/caltech/year3/ss280/presentation1/pres-simple_slides.zip

Also see the detailed examples that come with simpleslides:

http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-simpleslides/doc/context/third/simpleslides/solutions/

Specifically, check the style-template file if you want to create your own 
template (i.e., want a style that is not part of the module)

Aditya
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