Beamer class: question and comment
I hope you're all healthy, productive, and safe and you stay this way. Question: After years of beamer presentations with different looks I've decided on one that I'll use for all future presentations. How do I save this format and structure (stripped of presentation-specific content) as a default template for all my future beamer documents? Comment: A just-completed presentation has 6 images in it. The first two share their frames with text so I used columns and two individual columns per frame with the image on the left and the text on the right. This worked just fine. But, the next 4 images are large and each occupies an entire frame by itself. I inserted the first one, tweaked the size and position, and used alt-p/shift-enter to create a new frame environment. But, nothing happened; no new frame. I looked in the beamer manual but the word 'image' appears only once and in reference to using overlays. After much futzing I discovered a solution. When I defined a new frame environment I inserted an itemize environment, then immediately created a new, following frame. With the latter patiently waiting I inserted the image in the first new frame, set its size and position, then moved to the next frame that was created before inserting the image. I hesitate to call this a bug because I don't know if there's a way I've missed to insert only an image in a frame then create a new frame after that other than what I did. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Beamer class: question and comment
On 5/16/20 4:54 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I hope you're all healthy, productive, and safe and you stay this way. Question: After years of beamer presentations with different looks I've decided on one that I'll use for all future presentations. How do I save this format and structure (stripped of presentation-specific content) as a default template for all my future beamer documents? Comment: A just-completed presentation has 6 images in it. The first two share their frames with text so I used columns and two individual columns per frame with the image on the left and the text on the right. This worked just fine. But, the next 4 images are large and each occupies an entire frame by itself. I inserted the first one, tweaked the size and position, and used alt-p/shift-enter to create a new frame environment. But, nothing happened; no new frame. I looked in the beamer manual but the word 'image' appears only once and in reference to using overlays. After much futzing I discovered a solution. When I defined a new frame environment I inserted an itemize environment, then immediately created a new, following frame. With the latter patiently waiting I inserted the image in the first new frame, set its size and position, then moved to the next frame that was created before inserting the image. I hesitate to call this a bug because I don't know if there's a way I've missed to insert only an image in a frame then create a new frame after that other than what I did. Regards, Rich Rich, Re your question, I believe all you need to do is click File > Save As, click the "Templates" button in the dialog to steer you to your templates directory, and finish the save operation (giving it a suitable name). Re your comment, I don't reproduce that here. Keep in mind, though, that the shortcut to start a new frame (at least on my setup) is alt+p enter, not alt-p shift-enter. Works for me. Paul -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Re: Beamer class: question and comment
On Sat, 16 May 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Re your question, I believe all you need to do is click File > Save As, click the "Templates" button in the dialog to steer you to your templates directory, and finish the save operation (giving it a suitable name). Paul, Ah, I missed that. Re your comment, I don't reproduce that here. Keep in mind, though, that the shortcut to start a new frame (at least on my setup) is alt+p enter, not alt-p shift-enter. Works for me. Hmm-m-m. I remembered your suggestion a few years ago for the shortcut as alt-p shift-enter. That's worked for all frames except the ones holding only an image. Next time I'll try alt-p enter. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users