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== Using existing presentation styles Producing Your Presentations with ConTeXt ==

Even if After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producingtheir presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for thistask. Here's just a very selective list of the advantages you gain: *The superior typographic quality of TeX and ConTeXt will be available for your presentations. Users doing scientific presentations will also appreciate the well-known mathematical abilities TeX offers. *In addition, ConTeXt has great graphics abilities (placing images and floats) and can make excellent use of color. *Moreover, you can use all of the advanced features of ConTeXt, such as interaction or integration of metafun code. *The material of your presentations can be reused for handouts, papers, notes, etc. If you are not going to make use of the existing [[Modes]] feature, you can even recompile your entire presentation styles (in a different format without changing a single line in your source.  As you probably know, ConTeXt produces pdf-output by default; that's a greatadvantage when you're strongly encouraged thinking about a presentation: you can simply produce apdf-file and open it with a viewer such as xpdf or Acrobat Reader and show thepages in fullscreen mode. This is especially appealing when you want to make distribute your own anyway)presentations via mail or the web or when you have to show themon equipment you don't know: while proprietary software may or may not beavailable, these are wonderful examples you can usually be certain that everyone has an application fordisplaying pdf-files. This section of the wiki wants to learn some new techniquesget you started with presentations inConTeXt. See [[Presentation Styles]] for a list There's lots of available amazing stuff in the distribution already, such astruly amazing prebuilt stylesfor presentations which you can simply use bytyping, e.g.

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You The styles are fully documented, and you can usually change background color or make minor changes to learn amazing tricks by looking atthe source and the existing style in a pretty simple way (I hope documentation. However, for beginners, it will might be described in [[Presentation Styles]] how easier to do that one day)start with a very basic presentation and then slowly add more fancy stuff. You Thissection is thus targeted at newcomers; more experienced users may have want to override some font definitions used for skipthe first sections. This document deals with presentations that will be shownwith the help of a specific style if you don't have the font installeddigital projector, but many elements will be applicable tointeractive screen presentations as well.