Hello Hans, thanks for your reply. This is Installed Packages Name : texlive-context Arch : i686 Version : 2007 Release : 56.fc14 Size : 103 k Repo : installed

From repo : fedora Summary : ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on TeX URL : http://tug.org/texlive/ License : GPLv2 and BSD and Public Domain and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and LPPL Description : ConTeXt is a document preparation system based on TeX.

13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : exemple.top loaded (./exemple.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are disabled system : module s-pre-61 loaded (./s-pre-61.tex system : module pre-60 loaded (./s-pre-60.tex javascript : loading script set stp (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/java-stp.tex)

on fedora 14 (latest release). It seems that texlive is not the latest what you have. I don't know whether that makes a difference. In any case, I only have these here: deukalion(pts/101)| locate s-pre-6 /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-60.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-61.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-62.tex /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-63.tex deukalion(pts/101)| locate s-pre-7 So, no s-pre-7* In one of the 60 I have seen what seems to be what I asked for: In s-pre-61.tex I see \StartSteps \startitemize \item Mark Hollis \FlushStep \item Roger Waters \FlushStep \item David Gilmore \FlushStep \item Peter Gabriel \FlushStep \item Randy Newman \FlushStep \stopitemize \StopSteps Obviously I have to define Steps and I am using for my presentation pre-fuzzy How could I add Step to pre-fuzzy? I have looked into s-pre-61.tex to see whether I could get an idea (I apologise for my ignorance). However, I do not see the function defined in it and, when I tried to run texexec on "exemple.tex", which uses it as ------------ \usemodule[s-pre-61] \usemodule[amsl] \useMPlibrary[txt] \starttext \Topic{And Some More} \StartSteps \startitemize \item Mark Hollis \FlushStep \item Roger Waters \FlushStep \item David Gilmore \FlushStep \item Peter Gabriel \FlushStep \item Randy Newman \FlushStep \stopitemize \StopSteps \stoptext ------------------------------ If fails : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- deukalion(pts/101)| texexec exemple.tex TeXExec | processing document 'exemple.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file exemple.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1381 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./exemple.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2010.11.3 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/home/pau/fitx_confg/texinputs/cont-sys.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- metapost : loading metapost library nav (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/meta-nav.tex)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-ghz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-ghz.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lt55483 mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lt55483 This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexmf ec-lt55483 ! I can't find file `ec-lt55483'. <*> ...four; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lt55483 Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...four; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lt55483 Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: ec-lt55483.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lt55483' failed to make ec-lt55483.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*mainface12ptsstfss*:=ec-lt55483 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) f ile not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.22 \setupbodyfont[mainface,ss,18pt] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How can I use Steps with pre-fuzzy and what am I doing wrong altogether? Thanks in any case for everything! Pau On 19 February 2011 12:42, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 18-2-2011 9:35, Pau wrote:

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Hello,

I am trying to implement a similar effect to latex beamer's

\begin{itemize} \item \item \item \end{itemize}

quite a horrible syntax

...

What'd be the equivalent/similar/better of that in ConTeXt?

see s-pre-6* and s-pre-7* styles (often examples at the end)

Hans

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Hello, since I somehow managed to end up in the rpm dependence hell with a broken "update" of texlive, I went and did a manual *full* install of texlive 2010... still, I do not find more examples. Could you enlighten my ignorance with a concise example? thanks On 20 February 2011 00:07, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 19-2-2011 9:57, Pau wrote:

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Hello Hans,

thanks for your reply.

This is

Installed Packages Name        : texlive-context

the minimals have some more

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Am 19.02.2011 um 21:57 schrieb Pau:

Obviously I have to define Steps and I am using for my presentation pre-fuzzy

How could I add Step to pre-fuzzy?

I have looked into s-pre-61.tex to see whether I could get an idea (I apologise for my ignorance).

To use the step-machanism you can load the file “pre-stepwise”, e.g. \usemodule[pre-stepwise] \starttext \StartSteps \startitemize \item one \FlushStep \item two \FlushStep \item three \FlushStep \stopitemize \StopSteps \stoptext is enough. To add the function to “pre-fuzzy” you can try \usemodule[pre-fuzzy,pre-stepwise] \starttext ... \stoptext Wolfgang

Am 20.02.2011 um 12:13 schrieb Pau:

Dear Wolfgang,

thanks a lot for your clear and detailed example.

However I seem to be missing the pre-stepwise module and I do not understand why

You need the file “s-pre-60.tex” (or “s-pre-60.mkii|mkiv”), “pre-stepwise” is just a synonym for this file.

I have followed step by step this

http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

and everything has worked just fine. As a matter of fact

deukalion(pts/113)| texexec --check | grep source TeXExec | context source date: 2010.05.24 13:05

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't texlive supposed to give me a full working recent version of all of context and its modules?

Modules are updated but context itself will always stay the same version till the next texlive version because mkiv needs always a certain luatex version and mkii is frozen. Wolfgang

On 20-2-2011 7:58, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 21:35, Pau wrote:

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Hello,

I am trying to implement a similar effect to latex beamer's

\begin{itemize} \item \item \item \end{itemize}

What'd be the equivalent/similar/better of that in ConTeXt?

Apart from JavaScript-based mechanism somebody used to write t-rsteps module long time ago: http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-rsteps which creates multiple slides instead of using JavaScript (the same way as Beamer does, but is probably more primitive).

It worked nicely (I used it several times), but I haven't tested it recently, so I'm not sure if it still works fine with recent ConTeXt versions.

It would be great if \StartSteps, \FlushStep, ... written by Hans would also optionally support creating multiple slides for viewers other than Acrobat.

Not in the short term, i might give it a try some day but I hate mechanisms that interfere with others in unpredictable ways as do such multiple page solutions (references, spacing etc) unless one sticks to predictable structure and wants to patch core macros for this kind of stuff which is not what I like. Also, I've never seen anyone do a presentation with another viewer. Hans (who wonders why no one adds simple javascript support to the other pdf viewers, a reasonable subset would do) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On 21-2-2011 8:00, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

On Feb 21, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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Not in the short term, i might give it a try some day but I hate mechanisms that interfere with others in unpredictable ways as do such multiple page solutions (references, spacing etc) unless one sticks to predictable structure and wants to patch core macros for this kind of stuff which is not what I like. Also, I've never seen anyone do a presentation with another viewer.

Hans

(who wonders why no one adds simple javascript support to the other pdf viewers, a reasonable subset would do)

I do presentations with evince, okular, or Apple's Preview when I'm on OS X. I avoid Adobe Reader as much as I can because it's incredibly bloated (more so at every new version), insists on taking over my operating system (almost impossible to keep it from checking for updates, helpfully "repairing" components and features that I have explicitly disabled), still doesn't autorefresh, and has uglier font rendering, especially in linux. So I don't like javascript solutions at all.

For the problem at hand, maybe I'm naive, but here's my thoughts: would it be very hard to implement an alternative with layers? All we need for stepwise stuff to work would be - reset userpagenumber to current value - collect everything on slide in layer X, add layer X + 1 on top of this.

Or is this too simplistic?

there are presentation styles that do that indeed and it works as long as you don't rely on multipass trickery like automatically generated tocs and so (some can be intercepted, some not) .. but it's long ago that i used them so there might be clever tricks at work there Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 08:48, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

On 02/21/2011 12:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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...

It would be great if \StartSteps, \FlushStep, ... written by Hans would also optionally support creating multiple slides for viewers other than Acrobat.

Not in the short term, i might give it a try some day but I hate mechanisms that interfere with others in unpredictable ways as do such multiple page solutions (references, spacing etc) unless one sticks to predictable structure and wants to patch core macros for this kind of stuff which is not what I like. Also, I've never seen anyone do a presentation with another viewer.

Ehm ... isn't that what s-pre-50 does already?

Interesting. Thanks a lot for pointing it out. (It does lack some less important features like "only put this on slide nr. 2", but the current functionality already covers most of one's needs.) Thanks again, Mojca PS: I won't blame myself for not knowing the file was there if not even Hans remembered :) :) :)

On 2011-02-21 Hans Hagen wrote:

Also, I've never seen anyone do a presentation with another viewer.

I do. I never use Acrobat Reader.

(who wonders why no one adds simple javascript support to the other pdf viewers, a reasonable subset would do)

I don't think adding JavaScript is a feasible solution. It's very unlikely to be added to all PDF readers. I favour the multi page solution, since it works in all readers without problems. Marco