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Introduction

This module aims to provide an easy-to-use, simple, and consistent interface for writing simple slides/presentations in ConTeXt. Thomas had the idea to create such a module while preparing his course presentations with ConTeXt. He wanted to change the visual style of his presentations without changing the source files, so he wrote different styles that followed the same logic and provided the same macros. These styles later evolved into the taspresent module. Thomas presented the internals of the taspresent module in the second ConTeXt user meeting at Bohinj, and in the ensuing discussions, Aditya and Thomas decided to modularize and “ConTeXtize” some of the internals of the module, giving rise to the current module. The salient feature of this module are:

• The module is meant for the presentations which will be shown on a digital projector. They have no interactive elements (such as buttons or hyperlinks) and no navigational tools (such as table of contents).
• The module comes with several predefined styles. These styles are sober in appearance meant for an academic presentation. It also provides some macros to help in presenting slides with both pictures and text.
• Most styles allow for some degree of user-reconfigurability. Designing a new style is also easy.

This module provides a simple stricture that will be suitable for beginning or intermediate users of ConTeXt, or someone who does not want to spend too much time playing around with different configuration options for ConTeXt. As such it focusses on different users than Han’s presentation modules which have larger and A fancier features. This module also offers much less features than the LaTeX beamer package. Its main strength is its ease of use; you should be able to write your first presentation after spending five minutes with this manual.

For details on how to use this module see

• Installation
• Usage
• Styles