Hi Aditya, Some time ago I reported an issue with LMTX regarding your visual counter (at least the version used in the simpleslides module). Now I think I have found where the issue comes from: it is due to the fact that somehow the conditional if PageNumber > 2 : [some code] fi ; is not treated correctly, and if one removes the conditional while keeping only [some code] above, then the visual counter is shown correctly. I am sending you the TeX file where you can see that if lines 17 and 46 are uncommented then the visual counter does not show up. Thanks for your help: Otared K.

On 16 Nov 2021, at 23:11, Otared Kavian wrote:

Hi Aditya,

Thank you for your attention and your kind reply.

I am sending a setup file with an example of presentation, which shows the issue with LMTX while with mkiv the result is fine. Actually as you can see in the setup file, I have slightly modified the visula counter in order for it to be interactive (clicking in the center of the visula counter gives a jump to the previous location…).

Best regards: Otared

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On 16 Nov 2021, at 18:34, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021, Otared Kavian via ntg-context wrote:

Hi Otared,

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It seems that the visual counter in SimpleSlides module (the version I have from ConTeXt Garden is from 2014) does not work fine with the latest LMTX. Is the issue is known ? If so, is there a new version of SimpleSlides in which the issue has been fixed ?

I haven't looked at simpleslides in over a decade! The module did use some low-level macros, which are unlikely to work with LMTX without change.

It could also be a bug with visualcounter module. I haven't tested in with LMTX (I still use MkIV for most of my presentations). If you can post a minimal example, I could take a look.

Thanks, Aditya

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Hi Thomas, Thanks for your attention. Indeed I could have asked you, but since Aditya answered my previous message I continued asking him… Anyway, you are correct: replacing PageNumber with RealPageNumber everywhere, the visual counter is shown correctly… For the sake of the mail archives, in case someone else encounters the issue, I add the example below. Many thanks for help ! Best regards: Otared % begin interactive-visual-counter.tex %% to use with the simpleslides module \setupinteraction[state=start] \usemodule[simpleslides] [style=swoosh] \startuseMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:counter} save b, s, t, p, circcenter, theta, pic ; path p[] ; pair t[] ; pair s[] ; pair circcenter ; circcenter = urcorner Page shifted (-1cm,-1cm) ; % the counter is shown in the upper right corner % circcenter = lrcorner Page shifted (-1cm,1cm) ; % the counter is shown in the lower right corner pair zt, zr, zb, zl ; picture pic ; b = 1.5cm ; if RealPageNumber > 1 : % the page after which the visual counter is shown theta = (RealPageNumber - 1)/(NOfPages - 1) ; p[4] = fullcircle scaled b rotated 90 ; p[4] := p[4] shifted circcenter ; fill p[4] withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:altcontrastcolor} ; t[0] = center p[4] ; t[1] = point 1 along p[4] ; t[2] = point -theta along p[4] ; t[3] = point -theta/2 along p[4] ; p[5] = t[0] -- t[1] .. t[3] .. t[2] -- cycle ; fill p[5] withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:contrastcolor} ; for i = 1 upto NOfPages : s[i] = point i/(NOfPages -1) along p[4] ; pickup pencircle scaled 1pt ; draw s[i] -- t[0] withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:backgroundcolor} ; endfor ; zt = t[0] shifted (0, b * 0.2) ; zr = t[0] shifted (b * 0.2, 0) ; zb = t[0] shifted (0, -b * 0.2) ; zl = t[0] shifted (-b * 0.2, 0) ; p[3] = zt .. zr .. zb .. zl .. cycle ; fill p[3] withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:contrastcolor} ; draw p[3] withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:backgroundcolor} ; label(textext("\start\switchtobodyfont[10pt]% \setupinteraction[color=simpleslides:backgroundcolor,style=normal]% \startcolor[simpleslides:backgroundcolor] \goto{\pagenumber}[PreviousJump] \stopcolor\stop"),center p[3]) ; fi ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \setupTitle [title={Somewhere university}, author={Someone Else}, date={Somewhere, Someday 2021}] \placeTitle \page \SlideTitle{Knuth} \input knuth.tex \SlideTitle{Ward} \input ward.tex \SlideTitle{Lorem} \input lorem.tex \SlideTitle{Thuan} \input thuan.tex \stoptext % end interactive-visual-counter.tex

On 16 Jan 2022, at 16:14, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:

On 16.01.22 15:56, Otared Kavian via ntg-context wrote:

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Hi Aditya, Some time ago I reported an issue with LMTX regarding your visual counter (at least the version used in the simpleslides module). Now I think I have found where the issue comes from: it is due to the fact that somehow the conditional if PageNumber > 2 :

[some code] fi ;

Hi Otared,

I'm not Aditya, but I've encountered the same problem within simpleslides. Can you replace PageNumber with RealPageNumber and see whether this solves your problem?

Best

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