At 13:44 03/11/2003, you wrote:
I use the modes mechanism (\startmode, \stopmode and friends) and I am lacking imagination as to want more.
Something like :
\startslide
\stopslide
\startnote
\stopnote
together with modes screen and handout that would either generate only slides or print them like this :
------------------------ | ---------- | | | | notes | | | | notes | | | | | | | | | | ---------- | | | | ---------- | | | | notes | | | | notes | | | | | | | | | | ---------- | ------------------------
you can try the following: %%%% annotate.tex % output=pdftex interface=en % beware, page comments are buffers ! \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \starttext \startbuffer \input tufte \startpagecomment \input knuth \stoppagecomment \page \input knuth \startpagecomment \input tufte \stoppagecomment \page \input douglas \startpagecomment \input douglas \stoppagecomment \page \input ward \startpagecomment \input ward \stoppagecomment \page \stopbuffer \setuppagecomment[state=start,location=right] \getbuffer \setuppagecomment[state=start,location=bottom] \getbuffer \setuppagecomment[state=start,location=left] \getbuffer \setuppagecomment[state=start,location=top] \getbuffer \stoptext %%%%% present.tex \setuppapersize [A4][A4] % [A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout [header=0pt, footer=1cm, backspace=1cm, topspace=1cm, width=middle, height=middle] \setupfootertexts [presentation\space---\space \currentdate\space---\space \pagenumber] \starttext \combinepages[annotate][nx=2,ny=3,frame=on] \stoptext