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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: vertical alignment in simpleslides
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:23:33 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1103052320020.14991@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3uc0i4tpu9+syXaoqEywdz37+MOjqcw6iBR8g@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Curiouslearn wrote:

> Hi
>
> Today I started making lecture slides for one of my classes and
> decided to try out simpleslides. First of all, thanks to Thomas and
> Aditya for writing the module.
>
> I had a question regarding vertical alignment. Consider the following
> minimal example:
>
>               \usemodule[simpleslides][style=Swoosh]
>               \starttext
>               \SlideTitle{Context can be used for \dots}
>
>              \startitemize[n]
>               \item
>                   Writing your articles
>               \item
>                   Making slides for presentations
>              \stopitemize
>
>              \stoptext
>
> The two items appear at the top of the slide. Is there a command or a
> setting such that items will be aligned around the center of the
> screen?

\setupitemize[before=\vfill,after=\vfill]

You can also add

\setupitemize[1][inbetween=\vfill]

Another option is:

\def\StartSlide#1%
   {\SlideTitle{#1}
    \vfill}

\def\StopSlide
   {\vfill}

and then

\StartSlide{...}
...
\StopSlide

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-06  4:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-06  4:18 Curiouslearn
2011-03-06  4:23 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2011-03-06  4:46   ` Curiouslearn
2011-03-06  4:56     ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-06  5:19       ` Curiouslearn
2011-03-06  5:28         ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-06  5:31           ` Curiouslearn

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