Document layout and layers/Presentations/Presentation styles

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Last modified: 2026-09-23

This is a list of existing presentation styles (made by Hans Hagen) shipped with ConTeXt. There will also be a list of predefined commands specific to single styles.


TODO: page in progress - feel free to contribute

NOTE: this page is currently a mess. The newest ConTeXt LMTX renamed a bunch of presentation styles, deleted a few, and added others. None of this is reflected on this page yet except for some of the links to the Pragma website. The situation is confused further because the current wiki installation can not yet process the new files, so this documentation is out of date until the wiki ConTeXt installation is updated, sorry (Taco, 2026.09.23)

Things that have to come here: links to sources, links to PDF documents with sources explained, links to a couple of documents which use this style, title page, inner page, specific commands, how to change color of buttons & background, ... (See: To-Do List) 

texexec --pdf --mode=demo s-pre-xx

where xx is replaced with appropriate number. Do not not use s-pre-00 and s-pre-60 as these are only environments defining helper commands used in other styles.

01. original 

\usemodule[pre-original]
\TitlePage {pre-original\\Title Page}

02. green 

\usemodule[pre-green]
\TitlePage {pre-green\\Title Page}

03. funny 

\usemodule[pre-funny]
\TitlePage {pre-funny\\Title Page}

04. colorful

05. fuzzy 

\usemodule[pre-fuzzy]
\setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.2]
\TitlePage {pre-fuzzy\\Title Page}

06. polish

07. spider 

\usemodule[pre-spider]
\TitlePage {pre-spider\\Title Page}

08. wonder

09. windows 

\usemodule[pre-windows]
\TitlePage {pre-windows\\Title Page}

10. grow

11. stack

12. arrows

13. writing 

\usemodule[pre-writing]
\TitlePage {pre-writing\\Title Page}

14. split

15. balls 

\usemodule[pre-balls]
\setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.2]
\TitlePage {pre-balls\\Title Page}

16. knot

17. weird

18. shaded

19. organic 

\usemodule[pre-organic]
\setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.2]
\TitlePage {pre-organic\\Title Page}

20. speckle

21. zoom

22. cycle 

\usemodule[pre-cycle]
\TitlePage {pre-cycle\\ Title Page}

23. super 

\usemodule[pre-super]
\setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.2]
\TitlePage {pre-super\\ Title Page}

24. - 28.

s-pre-24.pdf s-pre-25.pdf s-pre-26.pdf s-pre-27.pdf s-pre-28.pdf

50.

Cited from the documentation:

When my mailbox started to overflow with messages about problems with the presentation step mechanism, I looked up old presentaton, hacked a bit and cooked up an alternative that is less dependent on PDF trickery.

Consider it a cheap trick and prelude to a couple of new presentation styles. (At the time of writing this, I still have some 10 of those styles to clean up and document.) You can give it a try:

61. stepper