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josephwright
More slide thumbnails in notes
Originally reported by: michaelaoash (Bitbucket: michaelaoash, GitHub: michaelaoash)
This request would apply to material on page 176 of the User Guide v. 3.06.
I love giving talks with the notes on the second screen. It's one of the best of latex-beamer's many excellent features.
It would be neat to be able to see thumbnails of the current slide, next slide, and perhaps the previous slide at the top of the notes on the second screen. In the current version, the notes screen displays a thumbnail of the current slide, but it would be really nice if the default were to display thumbnails of the current slide and the next slide.
An alternative would be to modify \insertslideintonotes so that it is possible to specify an arbitrary slide number.
This would be very helpful because it could cue remarks such as, "On the next slide I will show you..."
- Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/issue/5
Original comment by Anonymous:
I've used the beamerbasenotes.sty class linked above. I get a pdf with the next slide, as requested. I can open it with Skim and Preview on a Mac. But if I try to use SplitShow, it crashes with the following reasons:
Assertion failed: (nbNotes >= 0), function +[SSDocument parseNAVFileFromStr:slides1:slides2:], file /Users/ctourner/SplitShow/src/SSDocument.m, line 386
I was wondering if anyone has observed a similar behavior.
Thanks
Alberto
Original comment by Anonymous:
The example is wrong. The command needs a parameter:
\insertnextslideintonotes{0.5}
Now it's working. Thank you! :)
Original comment by fmms (Bitbucket: fmms, GitHub: fmms):
I could not get this to work:
I created:
fm@thinkpad:~/be # cat bug.tex
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\AtBeginNote
{
\insertnextslideintonotes
}
\begin{frame}{Start}
\begin{itemize}
\item first
\end{itemize}
\note[item]{should be on one}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{new}
one
\note[item]{should be on one}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{new}
two
\note[item]{should be on one}
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{new}
three
\note[item]{should be on one}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
but got:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not available
(Font) size <5> substituted on input line 22.
! Undefined control sequence.
\pgfmathsetlength ...\pgfmath@onquick #2\pgfmath@
{\begingroup \pgfmath@sele...
l.22 \end{frame}
Original comment by Anonymous:
Dear all,
I quickly wrote a modification of beamerbasenotes.sty that does exactly what michaelaoash asked; you can download it at
http://www.eso.org/~mlombard/beamerbasenotes.sty
From a user perspective there is a just a new command, \insertnextslideintonotes, which works exactly like \insertslideintonotes (but of corse substitutes next slide). A few warnings
I wrote the modification in ten minutes and tested in five, so bugs are more than likely...
For the moment it only works if every slides has notes. This however would be very easy to fix.
The last slide is not shown. A quick turnaround is to put an empty slide at the end of the presentation. Again, that should be easy to fix.
Let me know if you believe this is OK or if you find bugs. Regards,
Marco
Original comment by Vedran Miletić (Bitbucket: rivanvx, GitHub: Unknown):
Sure. This would be cool, however, it will require quite a bit of work. Patches, even partial and just "proof of concept", are very welcome.
Related questions on TeX.SE:
- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/33051/note-page-showing-the-next-frame
- https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/229437/command-showing-note-page-of-the-next-frame?noredirect=1&lq=1
Btw: is this issue closed on purpose? The linked commit https://github.com/josephwright/beamer/commit/9b89b139c1d7147bda738859054528a576b3adcc does not seem to be related.
Can we please open this again? As it seems it has not been included and the fix mentioned by @josephwright is not available anymore (at least I can not find it anywhere). Would be a really good addition.
