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 :

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

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 :

...

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