Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-14 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021, Oliver Corff wrote: > Let's say, "to need anymore". In the early 1990s, I was once tasked with > making presentation slides, and since video projectors were not readily > available, real slides were the way to go. Text presentations were > delivered to a terminal of which I

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-14 Thread kleinbottle4
By the way, what causes the error "slide.mom:5: can't transparently output node at top level" ? KB On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 08:24:10PM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I understand from mom's documentation that you are required to have a > .PRINTSTYLE. > > Then, I finished your

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-14 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Peter, On 13/06/2021 22:31, Peter Schaffter wrote: Erm... momdoc/docprocessing.html#slides: "PDF slides are a special kind of mom document, formatted for viewing in a PDF reader’s presentation mode. In most respects, they behave identically to the other document types. Key differences

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-13 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Sun, Jun 13, 2021, Oliver Corff wrote: > With regard to .PRINTSTYLE, the mom manual online is quite > assertive, but for the example here it did not seem to produce any > differences in output, either present or absent. Erm... momdoc/docprocessing.html#slides: "PDF slides are a special kind

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-13 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Hans, a substantial number of requests comes in on/off or begin/end pairs, so my first thought was that .LIST has to be closed; I tried .LIST OFF and it worked. With regard to .PRINTSTYLE, the mom manual online is quite assertive, but for the example here it did not seem to produce any

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-13 Thread Hans Bezemer
Hi Oliver, LIST OFF did the trick. Thank you. I thing PRINTSTYLE isn't needed for slides, I think it's part of the macro SLIDES. Regards, Hans On 21/06/13 08:24PM, Oliver Corff wrote: > Hi Hans, > > I understand from mom's documentation that you are required to have a > .PRINTSTYLE. > > Then,

Re: [mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-13 Thread Oliver Corff
Hi Hans, I understand from mom's documentation that you are required to have a .PRINTSTYLE. Then, I finished your example with .LIST OFF after the "Bye" and it compiles, probably as intended, while throwing the error message slide.mom:5: can't transparently output node at top level Here my

[mom] Using LIST with DOCTYPE SLIDES

2021-06-13 Thread Hans Bezemer
Dear all, I would like to use LIST within DOCTYPE SLIDES in mom, but when doing so it doesn't show. Also trying to set QUAD to LEFT doesn't seem to work. Maybe I'm missing the obvious. Here's a minimal code: .DOCTYPE SLIDES \#.PRINTSTYLE TYPESET \#.DOCTYPE DEFAULT .START .HEADING 1 "Heading