Hi André,
You were so quick to write your module…
Thanks for sharing, but I could not typeset the example file you sent: I didn't
get whether your file simplesteps.mkiv should be renamed
simplesteps.mkiv
or
simplesteps.tex
or even
t-simplesteps.tex
or any other suffix.
Maybe after you apply the changes suggested by Wolfgang and Philip you are
going to repost your moudle?
Best regards: OK
On 14 déc. 2012, at 12:21, Andre Caldas <andre.em.cal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>> thanks for the interesting contribution! Have a look at the patch
>> I hopefully don’t forget to append.
>
> Thank you! I will take a look and learn... ;-)
>
>
>>> [...]
>>> I use \startbuffer and \stopbuffer, and also Lua. As I said, I don't
>>> really know how to write a module... comments are very welcome.
>>
>> Honestly, it doesn’t work, but that’s a minor flaw!
>
> Sorry! I forgot to mention. Only a little subset of it works. I have
> (already - so I don't forget to) attached a "tex" file that works.
>
>
>> [**lots of advices I will study carefully latter**]
>> [...]
>> I could not figure out how exactly the section block thingy is
>> supposed to work. It does not create the \startframe macro at all
>> -- is this something custom?
>
> I don't know how to use this "startframe" yet. So, I am doing like
> this right now: (numbers like 2-3 or 2- don't work yet)
>
> === START code snip ===
> \startbuffer[simplesteps]
> \startitemize
> \item First item
> \uncover[2,3,4]{\item Second item}
> \uncover[3,4]{\item Second item}
> \uncover[4]{\item Second item}
> \stopitemize
> \stopbuffer
> \simplestepsplaybuffer
> === STOP code snip ===
>
> The "simplestepsplaybuffer" macro simply calls the
> simplesteps.playbuffer() lua function. This function plays the buffer
> and determines if it has to be played again or not. If it does, then
> it tex.print('\simplestepsplaybuffer').
>
> The macros "uncover" determine how far the specification is from being
> played. If it is being played now, then show. If it is played "next",
> then show in gray. And so on.
>
>
>> I infer it’s about the slide title
>> so I have \startframe call \section but that should be taken as a
>> placeholder at most. In my own slide module I use
>> \{start,stop}section with the option placehead=no and rely on the
>> page header to display the slide title (i.e. current section
>> running head). That was the laziest way I could imagine :P
>
> I guess that's what I want to do. I just don't have the necessary
> knowledge yet. ;-)
>
>
>> Some remarks:
>>
>> - you should rename simplesteps.mkiv to t-simplesteps.mkiv,
>> indicating that it is a thirdparty module
>
> I will. I think I will have a bitbucket repository exclusively for
> modules. Then I will have the proper directory structure, the proper
> naming scheme and hopefully proper documentation, xml, etc. (lots of
> things to learn!)
>
>
>> - if you plan on expanding the code you eventually will come to
>> love this bit: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros
>> - Context has a namespacing system which you might consider
>> switching to in the long term:
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58654
>> but it’s arguably an advanced method
>
> Well, I do want to do it the right (recommended) way!
>
>
>> - maybe switch to mkvi as named parameters make rewriting
>> macros a breeze
>
> Would you elaborate a bit further?
>
>
>>> Is it ok if I send a PDF sample to the list?
>
> I hope you can use the TEX file attached.
>
>
> Cheers,
> André Caldas.
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