All, I wouldn't be able to work on this feature, but I am using Beamer all the time now, and it would be great to have it.
Doug On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 6:25 AM Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Daniel wrote: > > On 2021-11-11 08:38, Daniel wrote: > > > On 2021-11-11 04:07, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > > I would find it helpful to display the Frame number in LyX when > working > > > > with Beamer presentations. > > > > > > > > Attached is an attempt that doesn't work and screenshot showing that > it > > > > doesn't work. > > > > > > > > I'm clueless about layouts. Any advice? > > > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > Adding this to your Document > Local Layout works for me: > > > > > > > > > Counter frame > > > End > > > > > > Style Frame > > > LabelString "Frame \theframe" > > > LabelCounter frame > > > TocLevel 3 > > > End > > > > > > > > > For some reason, if one keeps the TocLevel to 4, the label "Frame ..." > > > disappears. But, I guess, as long as you don't use Subsubsection in > your > > > presentation, it should be no problem? > > > > > > Daniel > > > > > > > Actually, it seems the local layout is read after the non-local layout is > > read. So you have to either tweak the other frame layouts (PlainFrame > etc.) > > accordingly, or create a local copy of beamer.layout and tweak the Frame > > layout directly there. > > This works great. Thank you! I had to set 'InitialValue' to 2 since the > title takes up a frame for me. It's really nice to have the numbers. I > find it especially helpful when I print out a copy and make edits and > then want to input those hardcopy edits to the file. Navigating by slide > numbers is a bit faster than searching for titles or (for frames without > a title) content text. > > Thanks for the help, Daniel! > > > Numbering the frames seems to be good idea in general. Maybe it could > become > > the default? (Then the TocLevel stuff would have to be fixed somehow > > though.) > > I think that might be nice. Indeed we'd have to smooth a few things out. > If anyone is interested in working on this feature, maybe we could first > ask on lyx-users what opinions are. > > Scott > -- > lyx-devel mailing list > lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel > -- R. Douglas Martin Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics University of Washington
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