On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Otared KAVIAN wrote:

\startbuffer[hallo] %% define a buffer named hallo Hallo from buffer \stopbuffer

Hi Otared, the problem is, that for some reasons, I don't want to use buffers here...

\StartSteps[Test] %% \StartSteps needs an argument %% used as the title of the slide

It's an optional argument.

Cheers, Peter

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Hans Hagen wrote:

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could somebody help me with the following problem please?

With the following test file, I get the error "ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \verbatimline."

take a look at s-pre-60+ for an alternative

Hello Hans,

I've tried it out, but it works only with very new Acroread versions and I had trouble going back and forth some pages and steps. It seems, that it works only well, when going through the presentation the first time.

t-rsteps is exactly, what I need: subpagenumbers, and working with every viewer.

Perhaps David has some hint?

Cheers, Peter

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, David Munger wrote:

I'm currently not at home. I'll be back next week and then I'll try to figure out what happens.

Hi David, have you already found something? Regards, Peter

David Munger wrote:

\long\def\StartLong#1\StopLong{#1}

\starttext \StartLong \starttyping hallo \stoptyping \StopLong \stoptext

This will produce no error, but no output as well. Maybe we could use some alternate mechanism to define the \StartLong...\StopLong pair.

\def\StartLong{} \def\StopLong{}

Or, if you insist on having the argument,

\long\def\StartLong#1\StopLong{\scantokens{#1}}

should work.

Christopher

Hi,

\starttyping needs to be followed by a newline, but macro arguments cannot contain newlines unless \obeylines is in effect. So:

\def\StartLong{\begingroup\obeylines\doStartLong} \long\def\doStartLong#1\StopLong{\scantokens{#1}\endgroup}

Cheers,

Taco

David Munger wrote:

I do need the argument. Its use is repeated in the real macro.

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\long\def\StartLong#1\StopLong{\scantokens{#1}}

This produces no output as well. texexec says: No pages of output.

Thanks anyway.

David

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David Munger wrote:

Unfortunately, the \StartLong macro is not meant only for producing line-wise content. In the general case, it contains something else than just \starttyping block.

Please try this:

\bgroup

\catcode`^^M=\active

\gdef\StartLong{\begingroup\obeylines\let^^M^^J\doStartLong}

\egroup

\def\doStartLong#1\StopLong{% \setbuffer[x]#1\endbuffer \endgroup \getbuffer[x] }

\starttext \StartLong \starttyping abcde \stoptyping

and now for something completely different

\StopLong \stoptext

Christopher

David Munger wrote:

Hi Christopher,

This was the right way. Thanks a lot!

Still, I don't understand how the \starttyping macro gets to work if ^^M is redefined as ^^J.

why exactly do you need this construct; there may be other ways to do it;

Hans

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David Munger wrote:

Hans,

The RawSteps module produces virtual slides with stepping, by rendering the step incrementally on successive pages. Thus, the \StartSteps...\StopSteps macro has to expand its argument (i.e. the content of the slide) a certain number of times, depending the number of requested steps. Of course, it shows only the relevant parts at each step.

To allow this, I had to work around page numbers, formula numbers, and lately \starttyping blocks.

If you could suggest a better way to achieve this multiple expansion, it would be welcome.

did you ever try

texexec --mode=demo s-pre-61

using 'layers' is rather robust (no duplicate pages and such);

Some of the older presentation styles build the pages stepwise, they use either boxes, or buffers (i must look into it, but there is also one that plugs into the otr; in your case, collecting in a box and uncopying it is probably the best method.

there is no general robust solution for this that does not messes up something so it depends on the kin df presentation

Hans

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David Munger wrote:

Hans Hagen:

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did you ever try

texexec --mode=demo s-pre-61

using 'layers' is rather robust (no duplicate pages and such);

Duplicated pages are the desired/intentional behaviour of this module (noone would object having a switch to choose between the method with JavaScript and the one with duplicated pages, but already now the module almost perfectly suits the needs).

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Some of the older presentation styles build the pages stepwise, they use either boxes, or buffers (i must look into it, but there is also one that plugs into the otr; in your case, collecting in a box and uncopying it is probably the best method.

Do you mean with \setbox-like commands? I'll have a look at it. Thanks for the suggestion.

This method would solve a couple of problems, but is it possible to get half of a paragraph on the first slide and finish it on the second slide this way (by doing acrobatics with boxes)?

Mojca

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On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Some of the older presentation styles build the pages stepwise, they use either boxes, or buffers (i must look into it, but there is also one that plugs into the otr; in your case, collecting in a box and uncopying it is probably the best method.

there is no general robust solution for this that does not messes up something so it depends on the kin df presentation

When I used LaTeX, I used prosper and seminar for presentations. (some results: http://pmrb.free.fr/prosper/ and http://pmrb.free.fr/work/cours/ ) There was no JavaScript but it was really robust: no problems with equations, figures, listings etc. Perhaps it is possible to copy their mechanisms?

many latex packages coem down to 'redefining low level things'

also, when collecting and flushing pieces of content, spacing is a tricky business (watch closely to presentations made quick and you'll notice those side effects)

my approach to presentations is that (normally) they should be rather simple, and the style and (either or not stepwise) approach depends on the content, presentation and audience, which in practice means that i don't use general solutions (apart from the fact that i don't like things looking the same; just as one can recognize a powerpoint presentation, one can recognize a beamer one -)

so, the only thing that i can do with respect to supporting general puspose step-wise presentations is to provide hooks and configuration options;

Hans

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Christopher Creutzig wrote:

Is there a way of having \installprogram for only for after the *last* run? (I don't think there could be a systemmode for the last run, but texexec knows it has done the last run, so there might be some file.tui line doing this kind of magic.)

tricky indeed,

remind me in a couple of weeks, he new texutil permits extensions and this could be one but it needs to signal texexec (doable since newtexutil is hooked into newtexec)

another option is to use --final in texexec and test for:

\startmode[*last] ... \stopmode

Hans

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Hi all,

has ConTeXt any equivalent to the \thanks command in LaTeX that types a footnote with a "*" as number and doesn't alter the footnote counter?

With many thanks in advance Albrecht

Hi all,

can someone tell me, how to set the counter of footnotes (e.g., one back, or to zero)?

With many thanks Albrecht