Thomas A. Schmitz writes:

Dear list members,

We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. Aditya and Thomas

Aditya and Thomas, Thank you for your efforts. I look forward to exploring your simple slides module.

thank you both. is there any chance that this will ship with the minimals, that is, so i don't have to download and extract it manually? i've never been content with slides that come as part of ConTeXt, some are too fancy. Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

Dear list members,

We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that should make your presentations visually appealing.

We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome!

We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc., so download the module at http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it a whirl!

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Le 31 mars à 21:39:45 "Thomas A. Schmitz" écrit notamment: | Dear list members,

| We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides | module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now | it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of | presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, | text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of | LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that | should make your presentations visually appealing.

| We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a | bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt | meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as | expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being | is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses | XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so | we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome!

| We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, | etc., so download the module at | http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and | give it a whirl!

| Aditya and Thomas Hi all, Thanks for this nice work; I'm doing some tests (mkiv) and for now I see no problem. In the pdf manual however a BIG BIG (1st of april!) problem on page 16: color green is announced on the title, blue actually shown. Great work, easier to use than good-old ancester taspresent! Best, -- Jean

Hi Thomas, "Thomas A. Schmitz" writes:

We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that should make your presentations visually appealing.

We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome!

We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc., so download the module at http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it a whirl!

The package that you and Aditya is really nice. I've already used it for a number of presentations, all in academic settings where the simplicity of design has helped me as an author to focus on the content and it has helped focus the presentation delivery on the content, too. Thanks a lot. I've been following the git repository for a while now. Is that still going to be updated, or will development shift to some some other method? Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama@stanford.edu)

On Tuesday 31 March 2009 21:39:45 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc., so download the module at http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it a whirl!

Pretty nice... Alan Two first, immediate impressions: 1) \setupTitle[ afterauthor={institute\crlf}, ] But wouldn't it be generally useful to include institute= as standard with institutestyle=, institutecolor=, institutealign=, beforeinstitute=, afterinstitute= 2) \startuniqueMPgraphic{simpleslides:itemize:circle} fill unitcircle scaled(0.4cm) withcolor \MPcolor{simpleslides:itemize:color} ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic