The LaTeX Beamer Class

I'd like to know how to animate a list item (or mbox item) that flies in
from a certain direction (from the top, bottom, etc).  Is this possible?
I don't see anything in the user manual abou it.



-----------------------------------------------

Chris Bourke
cbourke@...
http://www.cse.unl.edu/~cbourke

>>> \hyperlinkmovie[play]{mol-1}{click here}
>>>
>>> \movie[externalviewer,label=mol-1]{}{methanol.pdb}
>>>
>>> but when I click on "click here" in the screen, nothing
>>> happens.
>>
>>Hmm... Good question. Most likely, the viewer does not know which external 
>>viewer to use... Or, perhaps, hyperlinking with the play option does not work 
>>with the externalviewer option. Yes, come to think of it, that's most likely 
>>the case. I would have to look it up in the pdf specification. 
>>
>>Try not using an external player or try not using a hyperlinkmovie.
>>
>>(I know this is perhaps not very helpful, but pdf and movies is still a 
>>somewhat fragile business...)

I'm quite satisfied with this (stolen from the lyx mailing list AFAIR):
\newcommand{\hrefWithPreview}[3]{%
  \href{#3}{\includegraphics[width=#1]{#2}}
}
[...]
\hrefWithPreview{0.4\textwidth}{still.jpg}{run:movie.mpg}

where still.jpg is the first view of the movie (or any other anchor)
Beware that mpeg extension should be preferred to mpg if you plan to use it on Windows.

Works with acroread, not with xpdf.

Worth to be noted that use of an url as third argument
should work with any pdf viewer as it calls a browser.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

I am using the pgf package for preparing diagrams that will
be used with beamer (I did not try pstricks because I heard
that they are not quite suitable for pdflatex). The problem
is that for nodes seems that there is no way to put a long
text in more than one line. Is that right? I tried to use
\newline or \\ but they didn't work.

Besides, I am trying to include (and play with) a structure
of a chemical compound. As it needs an external viewer I
put:

\hyperlinkmovie[play]{mol-1}{click here}

\movie[externalviewer,label=mol-1]{}{methanol.pdb}

but when I click on "click here" in the screen, nothing
happens.

Third and last point: how can I tell beamer to launch a full
screen acrobat window? Every time I compile the tex file,
acrobat opens in a normal window but not full screen.


Best wishes,

Agustín

Hello

I've just started using Beamer a month ago, and it's great.

One question: When I use a theme that has a sidebar, some tables extend
out over the sidebar.  Is there a way to fix this automatically, or do I
have to change each by hand?


e.g.

with this preamble


<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

% $Header:
/cvsroot/latex-beamer/latex-beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.en.tex,v
1.4 2004/10/07 20:53:08 tantau Exp $
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation> {
  \usetheme{Goettingen}
  % or ...

  \setbeamercovered{transparent}
  % or whatever (possibly just delete it)
  \usecolortheme{sidebartab}
  \usecolortheme{albatross}
}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
% or whatever

\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}

\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
% Or whatever. Note that the encoding and the font should match. If T1
% does not look nice, try deleting the line with the fontenc.


\title[Randomized response] % (optional, use only with long paper
titles)
{Randomized response: Ethical, methodological, and statistical
considerations}


\author{Peter L. Flom}

\institute[NDRI] % (optional, but mostly needed)
{National Development and Research Institutes, Inc.}

\date[Short Occasion] % (optional)
{Statistics Support Group, April 2005}

\subject{Talks}

\AtBeginSubsection[] {
  \begin{frame}<beamer>
    \frametitle{Outline}
    \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
  \end{frame}
}

%\beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->}

\begin{document}


Peter L. Flom, PhD
Assistant Director, Statistics and Data Analysis Core
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research
National Development and Research Institutes
71 W. 23rd St
 http://www.peterflom.com
New York, NY 10010
(212) 845-4485 (voice)
(917) 438-0894 (fax)



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

this table goes over the edge of the presentation

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Social security fraud in Netherlands}
  %Van der Heijden, van Gils, Bouts, Hox, \emph{Kwant. Meth. Stat.}
\begin{itemize}
\item Interviewed people known to have committed fraud
\item Four methods: RR forced alt.; RR Kuk; Self-administered;
Direct
\end{itemize}
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|l|r|r|r|r|r|}
Method & N & P(fraud) & s.e. & z & p(one-tail) \\ \hline
 Forced alternative & 96 & 0.43 & 0.068 &  2.22 & 0.01 \\
 Kuk               & 105 & 0.49 & 0.082 &  2.59 & $<$0.01 \\
 Self-completion   &  47 & 0.19 & 0.058 & -0.83 & 0.20 \\
 Direct            & 99 & 0.25 & 0.044 \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{frame}

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Thanks in advance!

Peter

Hi,

I'm using Beamer 3.01 (Debian's package).

In a presentation I'm preparing, I've noticed that the frame
numbers are not consecutive.  More precisely, the frame counter
is unexpectedly incremented before each fragile frame.

Here is a small test case:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme[secheader]{Madrid}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
Text.
\end{frame}
\end{document}

When I compile this with pdflatex, I get a one-page document,
but the frame number at the bottom right is "2/2" instead of the
expected "1/1".
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

I'm preparing a rather long presentation, broken in three parts.
http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/autotools.html

My understanding is that although each part has its own TOC from
the point of view of Beamer, \part does not reset the numbering
of the sections between parts and it does not affect the PDF
bookmarks either (bookmarks show a single TOC with all sections).

The numbering of the sections is not really a problem to me.
However what I would like is to make the parts appear as PDF
bookmarks, and show the subsections they enclose.  For instance
a presentation with 2 parts each containing 3 sections would
have PDF bookmarks like

  + Part 1
    - Section 1
    - Section 2
    - Section 3
  + Part 2
    - Section 4
    - Section 5
    - Section 6

instead of the current

  + Section 1
  + Section 2
  + Section 3
  + Section 4
  + Section 5
  + Section 6

Right now I'm using the following as a workaround:

\newcommand{\mypart}[1]{\part{#1}\section*{--- #1: Outline ---}
                        \frame{\partpage \tableofcontents}}

This way I get

  + --- Part 1: Outline ---
  + Section 1
  + Section 2
  + Section 3
  + --- Part 2: Outline ---
  + Section 4
  + Section 5
  + Section 6

But that's mildly satisfactory.  Is there a way to achieve what
I want?  Maybe \part is not what I should use?  (Before learning
about \part I was looking for something like \chapter.)
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

Earlier I asked:
>> I want to set up a link in one presentation that will load and
display a
>> different presentation (another beamer pdf file).

To which Jean-Baptiste Rouquier replied:
>Use hyperref, already loaded by beamer (tell the list if it works) ?

>Should be something like
>\href{another-beamer-pdf-file.pdf}{clik here for the other
presentation},
>but check in hyperref manual.

This worked flawlessly (I'm using Beamer 2.20).

Thanks!

Jeff Wilson
wjwilson _at_ albion.edu

First, thanks for a seemingly great package!

When compiling beameruserguide from current cvs I had to make the
follwoing change to pgf in order to not get an error for undefine
\pgfex:
,----
| Index: base/pgf.sty
| =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
| RCS file: /cvsroot/latex-beamer/pgf/base/pgf.sty,v
| retrieving revision 1.1
| diff -u -u -r1.1 pgf.sty
| --- base/pgf.sty        23 Jan 2005 23:19:17 -0000      1.1
| +++ base/pgf.sty        27 Feb 2005 20:09:11 -0000
| @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
|=20
|  \ProcessOptions
|=20
| +\newdimen\pgfex % will be equal to 1ex
| +\newdimen\pgfem % will be equal to 1em
| +
|  \RequirePackage{pgfsys,pgfbase,pgfarrows,pgfnodes,pgfshade}
|=20
|  \endinput
`----
Not sure that it is the right one, but it works for me.


Moreover I have to questions:
 - What exactly are the commands that make acroread-5.0.10 on Linux
   fail on certain of the theme-examples?
 - Would it be possible to distribute Makefiles that copy all
   necessary files to a fixed position in a specified TEXMF-tree?
 - There are several files with the same names in cvs, which one is
   one supposed to use?

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Jochen
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        (Part 3 you find in my messages before fall 2003.)

This is my first question to the digest - forgive me if I missed this
info somewhere.

I want to set up a link in one presentation that will load and display a
different presentation (another beamer pdf file).  I'm using version
2.20 (apt-get install beamerclass tells me this is the newest version -
is ver. 3 not yet packaged for Debian?).

Any help will be appreciated.

Jeff Wilson
wjwilson _at_ albion.edu

Hi!

Sometime ago with 2.0 I created (hacked a theme) based on the classic 
theme. Now it doesn't work with new version.

Meanwhile, I can try to adapt it, or try to hack a new theme again.

My question is, what is the easier way to start a new theme?

Thank-you
Alberto

Hello,

I posted the patch here:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1093808&group_id=92412&atid=600662

but I suspect it went unnoticed. The patch works very well here.


Bye, Mt.

Hi,

beamer has very nice \item markers which is really cute.
I used some kind of

      o First item
      o Second item
      o ...
    ==> Consequence of all items

Unfortunately I did not found a nice arrow sign which is compatible
in style for usage in \item[\MyNiceArrow].  Is there any gifted
PGF programmer who is able to create a kind of three-dimensional
arrow which looks nice below the cute \item markers?

Kind regards

            Andreas.

-- 
http://fam-tille.de

Hi Till,
> 
> On Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 20:54, Chris Bourke wrote:
> > I would like to draw a pgfnode that is filled with a color 
> (say red); 
> > but I'd also like to maintain a nice black border around 
> it. Looking 
> > over the pgf documentation it doesn't seem to mention how 
> to do this 
> > (in fact even getting info on the color was difficult since 
> it simply 
> > states to use the same commands as the color package).  
> Anyway, this is a quick work around:
> >
> > \color{red}
> > \pgfnodecircle{Node01}[fill]{\pgfxy(1,1)}{8pt}
> > \color{black}
> > \pgfnodecircle{Node01b}[stroke]{\pgfxy(1,1)}{8pt}
> >
> > However, clearly Node01 and Node01b are different entities and if I 
> > switch the order of declaration around (I believe) it the red one 
> > overdraws the black border.
> >
> > Is there a better way of doing this?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> right now, this is the "right" way of doing this. You could 
> also directly use a \pgfcircle command for the filling, but 
> that's suffering from the same problems.
> 
> Now, I'm working on pgf version 1.0 and that version will 
> solve these problems with a vastly improved node system. 
> However, it's somewhat tricky and I have very limited time 
> right now. Nevertheless, with a bit of luck, that version 
> should be ready by April (no promises, though).

Is there or are you planning to implement a means for constructing as
Follows (PSTricks syntax):

toto titi \rnode{A}{tata} toto

x

 y

z

vvv  \rnode{B}{uuuuu}

\ncarc{A}{B}

mh



> 
> Best regards,
> Till
> 
> --
> Till Tantau <tantau@...>, 
> http://tal.cs.tu-berlin.de/tantau
> 
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Hi,

I am a newbie to beamer, and I looked at the examples provided at
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/, but they differ a little from
those I have downloaded from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer/ (the newest version). I
especially like beamerexample3.pdf from
http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/, I wonder what color the background
is (and what are the commands for obtaining it) and also how can I make
the box around the title disappear. 

Question about the theme Warsaw: Is it possible to change the blue color
of the top and the bottom of the page to some other colors? 

Thanks,

Sin