At 18:38 -0500 2/11/04, David Munger wrote:
I think the latest Acrobat Reader version for Linux is 5.0.9. I guess this means I should forget about steps. Thanks anyway.
David
Hi David, A few months ago I had to use steps in my presentations, but since I could not use thouroughly s-pre-60.tex (and the examples given in s-pre-61.tex) I ended up writing a few macros which work fine with ConTeXt and the presentation modules. These macros are very elementary and crude, but they work... If I succeed to learn how to use layers smartly as does Hans, I will write these macros again. :-) Below are the macros and some examples. Best regards: OK %%%%%%%%%%%% begin test-step-ok.tex %%K test-step-ok.tex %%K Here we use the plain \TeX\ command \phantom{} in order to have %%K some material appear step by step. %%K The structure is quite simple, but since I am not very %%K familiar with ConTeXt, I cannot write elegant code as does %%K Hans Hagen... %%K %%K An advantage is that the code can be used also in %%K plain TeX, in LaTeX and other macro-packages. %%K \newif\ifSteppingSlide \SteppingSlidetrue %%K this is when you want a step by step presentation %\SteppingSlidefalse %%K this is when you want to print the slides % \newcount\StepsCounter \StepsCounter=0 % \newcount\NumberOfSteps \NumberOfSteps=10 % \newcount\BeforeStepNumber \BeforeStepNumber=0 % %%K StepBetween[number1,number2]{material} will make "material" %%K appear between steps "number1" and "number2" \def\StepBetween[#1,#2]#3{% \ifSteppingSlide \ifnum#1>\StepsCounter \phantom{#3} \else \ifnum#2<\StepsCounter \phantom{#3} \else \relax #3 \fi \fi \else {#3} \fi} % %%K Step{number1}{material} will make "material" %%K appear beginning with step "number1" until "NumberOfSteps" \def\Step#1#2{\StepBetween[#1,\NumberOfSteps]{#2}} % %%K OnlyStep{number1}{material} will make "material" %%K appear only on step "number1" \def\OnlyStep#1#2{\StepBetween[#1,#1]{#2}} % %%K StepBefore{number1}{material} will make "material" %%K appear only on all steps before "number1" \def\StepBefore#1#2{ \global\BeforeStepNumber=#1 \StepBetween[0,\BeforeStepNumber]{#2}} % \long\def\SlideWithSteps#1#2{ \ifSteppingSlide \global\StepsCounter=0 \global\NumberOfSteps=#1 \MakeSteps{#2} \else #2 \fi} % \long\def\MakeSteps#1{\loop #1 \ifnum\StepsCounter<\NumberOfSteps \global\advance\StepsCounter by 1\vfill\eject \repeat \vfill\eject} % %%K This is the end of the macros %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % \endinput %%K Here is a sample of how you can use these macros %%K \starttext \startitemize \SlideWithSteps{8}{ \item Consider the following nonlinear equation: $$\Step{8}{{\partial u \over \partial t}} \Step{1}{-\Delta u + |u|^{p-1}u} \Step{2}{=} \Step{3}{f} \Step{4}{+{\rm div}(g)} \Step{5}{+|\nabla u|{\Step{6}{^2}}}$$ \StepBetween[3,5]{\item This line appears only between steps 3 and 5} \Step{8}{\item The equation may be parabolic.} \StepBefore{4}{\item This line appears only before step 4.} \OnlyStep{4}{\item This line appears only at step 4.} \vfill (Here you see step number \the\StepsCounter) } % end of \SlideWithSteps \stopitemize \page \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%