Thanks Taco. Having done that already, that's precisely the reason I'm asking. ;O) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_holeBest, Alan P.S. The more I lookup something in texshow, the more it looks like this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Alan Stone wrote:

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HI,

Where can I find a *comprehensive* explanation of all \*interaction* commands and their options ?

AFAIK, the best bet at the moment is texshow:

http://texshow.contextgarden.net/

and put "interaction" in the search field.

Best wishes, Taco

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I'm still trying to reproduce the layo-05.tex example Hans. As its code is rather tortuous I studied other examples. Up till now this has been quite a time investment without noticeable return, partly due to not finding a comprehensive \*interaction* commands documentation to guide me all along. Therefore, I wanted to give it (and ConTeXt) one last chance by starting from scratch and progress by trial and error. Hence my previous question. Alan P.S. What I meant by texshow being a black hole is: there's a lot of stuff in there, but for the most part (as a user) I don't have a clue what it is and what it means. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Alan Stone wrote:

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HI,

Where can I find a *comprehensive* explanation of all \*interaction* commands and their options ?

AFAIK, the best bet at the moment is texshow:

http://texshow.contextgarden.net/

and put "interaction" in the search field.

depends a bit on what you want to do ...

mwidgets.pdf is ok, and also the s-pre-* files have lots of examples

Hans

you can run layo-05.tex with --mode=demo to get a simple example, given at the bottom of that file

I guess you mean s-pre-05.tex Hans. Best, Alan On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

Alan Stone wrote:

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I'm still trying to reproduce the layo-05.tex example Hans. As its code is rather tortuous I studied other examples. Up till now this has been quite a time investment without noticeable return, partly due to not finding a comprehensive \*interaction* commands documentation to guide me all along.

the problem with interaction is that there is not one route ... the simplest way is to just turn it on (\setupinteraction[state=start])

next there are only a few special interaction things: goto, buttons and menus and it really depends on your design then what you use

the other thingies (graphics and such) ar enot special to interaction

you can run layo-05.tex with --mode=demo to get a simple example, given at the bottom of that file

an option is to copy that file into a temp one and start commenting ... that way you see what happens; normally a style is built the other way around,

- set up a papersize - adapt the layout - start keying some text - then see what kind of text you have - adapt your design to the content

now, esp with things like menus, finetuning really depends on the kind of content; the best way to get a feeling for that is just try things (at least that's how i do it ... just try what looks best as there is no recipy for a design)

Hans

After modifying the s-pre-05.tex example and replacing \setupinteractionmenu[right] with \defineinteractionmenu[myMenu][right] the menu doesn't show up anymmore in the pdf. What's missing ? Thanks, Alan %\usemodule[pre-general] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setupbodyfont[14.4pt] \setuplayout [width=430pt, height=400pt, header=0pt, footer=0pt, margin=0pt, backspace=25pt, topspace=25pt, rightedgedistance=20pt, rightedge=110pt] \setupcolors[state=start] %\setupinteractionscreen[option=max] %\setupbackgrounds[state=repeat] %\setupbackgrounds[page] % [backgroundcolor=white] \setupinteraction[ state=start, menu=on] % page=yes/no % what is that ? \defineinteractionmenu[myMenu][right][ before=, after=, style=smallbold, height=35pt, offset=10pt, frame=on] %\startinteractionmenu[right] \startinteractionmenu[myMenu] \placelist[chapter][ criterium=all, alternative=right, % what is "right" ? maxwidth=.8\rightedgewidth, % interaction=all, % what is this supposed to be for ? before=, after=] \vfill % \setupinteractionmenu[right] \setupinteractionmenu[myMenu] [height=30pt] \but [CloseDocument] Close \\ \stopinteractionmenu \setupwhitespace[big] \setupblank[big] %\defineoverlay[NextPage][\overlaybutton{forward}] \def\StartTitlePage% { \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background=] % \setupinteraction[menu=off] \setupinteraction[menu=on] % \setupinteractionbar[state=stop] \setupinteractionbar[state=start] \setuplayout[width=550pt,rightedge=0pt] \startstandardmakeup \switchtobodyfont[24pt] \bfd\setupinterlinespace \setupalign[middle] \vfil \let\\=\vfil} \def\StopTitlePage% {\vfil\vfil\vfil \stopstandardmakeup \setuplayout[width=430pt,rightedge=110pt] \setupinteraction[menu=on] \setupinteractionbar[state=start] } \def\TitlePage#1% {\StartTitlePage#1\StopTitlePage} \setuphead [chapter, title] [after={\blank[3*medium]}, number=no, style=\tfb, page=yes, alternative=middle] \setuphead [section] [after=\blank, number=no, page=yes, continue=no, style=\tfa] \starttext \TitlePage{Title Page} Some Nice Quotes \chapter{A Few} \section{Knuth} \input knuth \section{Tufte} \input tufte \chapter{Some More} \section{Zapf} \input zapf \section{Bryson} \input bryson \stoptext