Re: [NTG-context] Table of content in presentation example

12 May 2017


      Sorry, another side question: Is there no way to set the distance from the
title in the TOC to the page number? I tried alternative=c with width,
maxwidth, distance...
I still can't set it tighter. Going from the far left to the far right is
not good from the audience's POV. I saw some example *.tex from the CTX
distribution but none of them seems to use that mechanism except for
charts-mkiv. That again uses columns. But in my case it doesn't split the
content, but creates only the left column. You can try with the documents
and code snippets that I pasted.

2017-05-12 23:03 GMT+02:00 cryo shock :
...
Sorry, me again. After fiddling around I found out why it didn't work:
because \placecontent was *within* the subject that it had to print. Kind
of a Gordian Knot or what was it called...?
I modified my code a little, so that it looks better, but still one thing
is missing... That's what my code looks like now:
%D I copied the head settings to "title", so that it has the same style as
the rest
%D "title" will not be counted for TOC:
\setuphead[title][style=\ssbfc, color=foreground:contrast,
alternative=middle]
\starttext
\setvariables
...
*\startstandardmakeup* %D else the content is placed at the very top,
ignoring the header... (bad)
*  \title{Table of contents}*
*  \vfill*
*  \placecontent*
*  \vfill*
*\stopstandardmakeup*
\startslide[title={First Slide}]
...
Yet the one thing I am missing is that the TOC is not in the middle of the
page.
I read some time ago that \vfill  has no effect at the very beginning or
the very end of a page. A suggestion was to place a "ghost box" or
something like that at the end or top respectively of the document. Yet I
can't finde the article anymore. Can anybody provide some help with this
or is there maybe a more elegant way to solve the whole TOC situation?
Greetings, Sebastian
2017-05-12 22:16 GMT+02:00 cryo shock :
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I forgot to add that I also tried a modified \setuplist:
\setuplist[subject][width=2cm,margin=2cm]
and
\setuplist[subject][margin=2cm]
I also added the following line to the component:
\setupcombinedlist[content][list={chapter,subject,subsubject
,section,subsection,slide}]
Yet the Toc page stays blank...
2017-05-12 22:08 GMT+02:00 cryo shock :
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Hi guys, I downloaded a sample presentation with component and example
presentation from a link off of ctxwiki. I will attach both files and a
premade PDF that shows what I mean.
So far I edited the component a little in display style, yet I don't
know why I can't get a simple table of content on the second slide.
In the component I found the following code:
\definehead
    [slide]
    [subject]
    [
      style=\ssbfc,
      color=foreground:contrast,
      alternative=middle,
      page=yes
    ]
So I understand that the head called slide comes from the head subject,
which by default isn't shown in the table of content. So I searched ctxwiki
for table of content and modified the above setup to
\definehead
    [slide]
    [subject]  % default: subject
    [
      style=\ssbfc,
      color=foreground:contrast,
      alternative=middle,
      page=yes,
*      incrementnumber=yes,  % keep track of the number*
*      number=no             % but don't show it*
    ]
I also added the following line:
\setuplist[subject][width=2cm]
The example .tex then starts with
\starttext
\setvariables
...
\startslide
...
\stopslide
...
\stoptext
So I inserted another \startslide \stopslide with \placecontent in
between:
\startslide[title={T.o.c.}]
  \placecontent
\stopslide
Yet the rendered PDF shows only a blank page where the TOC is supposed
to be.
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastian