Creating a clean presentation style in 40 commits

Posted on January 13, 2013

Did you always want to learn ConTeXt, but did not know where to start? I have written a git-based tutorial that should help you get started.

NOTE: The automatically generated output of this tutorial is now available as a separate post

The idea of the tutorial is to start with an empty document, and add features one-by-one. Each git commit corresponds to one small change in the document, and includes pointers to the documentation corresponding to that change. Use this tutorial as follows:

Clone the git repository:

 git clone git://github.com/adityam/context-slides-example.git
 cd context-slides-example

Get git-walk (requires ruby)

 wget https://raw.github.com/augustl/binbin/master/git-walk
 chmod +x git-walk

Checkout the first commit
```
 git checkout init
```
Open the two files, slides.tex and example.tex in the editor.
Read the log message, compile example.tex and view the result.
```
 git log -n 1
 context example.tex
 evince example.pdf &
```
Go to next commit and repeat step 5. (This requires git-walk to be in your $PATH.
```
 git walk next
```

(Alternatively, instead of using git-walk, you can use a GUI tool to incrementally checkout the commits one by one, compile example.tex at each step, and view the result).

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