On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Guilherme P. de Freitas < guilherme@gpfreitas.com> wrote:
In case I wasn't clear "That may be possible" refers to "Having a blank background may be possible".
And I really don't want to sound ungrateful for all the great software available out there for free (by the way, I pay for software that helps me), but it is maybe the 4th time I decide to try to write down a set of slides using ConTeXt and I can't find a simple template with a plain background to download. Call me crazy, but I didn't expect that.
In the webpage for Slides/Presentations in the Context wiki, there is no complete, working template for a presentation with slides. Sure, people may want to customize everything, but I would guess 90% of presentation have a title and an author, lists and pictures. It would be very helpful to have such a template (as basic as possible, with those four components). And a template like this would be a great starting point for people like me, that want to migrate at least part of their work to ConTeXt (I've had a very positive experience writing problem sets already), and do that by doing real work, under a time constraint, instead of setting time aside to learn everything writing down examples, etc. (which is great, but takes longer) That kind of audience needs a quick solution, and then references to customizations. The references for customizations exist; the quick solutions (templates go a long way in this case), no. And I think the additional cost of doing that is minimal.
Thanks everybody, but I still have to find my simple template: title, author, lists, pictures and plain background. I guess I could just go and write down a large centered text for title, etc. but I was hoping there would be something already done for very simple slides.
Best,
Not in order of importance *)simple slides *) s-pre-*.tex *) build your slide with layers Please consider this http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint and this www.dabeaz.com His slide are really ok, cfr. www.dabeaz.com/python/*GIL*.pdf I think that every technical slides must be suitable for printing without effort and with hight quality. So I prefear A5 paper , black and white, one font for running text (CharisSIL actually) one font for listing (Incosolata, actually) and one for symbols (Unicode.otf, actually) . They render well on screen and on paper: see http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009/slides/luigi-slides.pdf For printing can be good A5 on A4 on top (bottom half space for your notes) or 2 A5 on A4 (more compact) -- luigi