On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:16:30AM +0100, Marco Patzer wrote: > > I am making a presentation that involves some simple animations. The > > way I make those animations is by: > > > > 1. Stopping page numbering. > > 2. Flipping through the same slide repeated, but with img0, img1, img2 etc. > > 3. Start page numbering. > > > > The problem with my naïve approach of repeating slides is that fixing > > a spelling error or making changes implies that I have to do it several > > times for an “animated” slide, and is error-prone. > > You could use buffers: > > \newdimen\cnt > \starttext > > \startbuffer [greenbar] > \blackrule[width=4cm, height=5mm, color=green] > \stopbuffer > > \dorecurse{10}{%% > \blackrule[width=\textwidth] > \advance\cnt1cm \hskip\cnt > \getbuffer[greenbar]\page} > > \stoptext
This is a lovely solution, and I'll put off learning LuaTeX for now. Thanks! :-) Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________