Comments on: Creating latex-beamer handouts with notes

By: Hui

Hui — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:38:39 +0000

Excellent job! This is exactly what I’m looking for.

To remove overlays from a beamer presentation, I add a handout option

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}

By: Dieter Grollmann

Dieter Grollmann — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:13:25 +0000

Just to make it clear: I actually wanted to say, that *your* idea (making this style) is a nice one. My comment is just a latexnical hint

By: admin

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:54:05 +0000

@Dieter: Really nice idea. Around half of June, I will have some time to work on this project again, will try to incorporate the ideas/suggestions I have gotten so far.

Guido Diepen

By: Dieter Grollmann

Dieter Grollmann — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:27:51 +0000

Nice idea!

If you would store the text “Notes” in a (for example) \newcommand*{\NotesText}{Notes}, the users could easily change the text with \renewcommand*… without editing the whole style

By: admin

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:12:42 +0000

Hi Iade,

Good to hear that you like it

Regarding the 3 additional notes fields, I think it will be relatively difficult to change this. It will require me to check the number of slides that are printed on the left hand side of the page everywhere. When I am going to spend some time on the package again, I will see if I can do this (and some other requests I have found over time )

By: Iade Gesso

Iade Gesso — Thu, 20 May 2010 08:05:50 +0000

Hi,
I’ve tryed this package and I think it’s very good.

PS: Using the 4 on 1 with notes setting with 17 slides, the last page has only one slide, but it has four notes…

By: Matthew Leingang

Matthew Leingang — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:12:50 +0000

Awesome package, just what I needed. I was able to enhance the 3 on 1 with notes layout to include a (physical) page header and footer. See here. Once you realize that everything on the physical page is a logical page, it's easy to put whatever you want wherever you want. The stuff that's the same on every page you can copy as with the notes boxes. The stuff that changes on every page you can actually set the text with the "border code" option.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:25:32 +0000

First thanks for the nice package. It would be very nice to see this in TeX Live or at least on CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/). You can just upload the package onto CTAN (link is on the CTAN home page), and if it fulfils the TeX Live license requirements (IMHO it does, since it is LPPL without further restriction), it will automagically show up in TeX Live. A nice bonus would be a documentation .tex and .pdf, but I think it is not recommended for publication on CTAN.

Regards, Chris

By: shige

shige — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:20:27 +0000

Thanks, this is helpful to you.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:16:49 +0000

aaaaaaah, now I understand.

Unfortunately, the answer is that you can’t….

The reason for this is that the notes that I am printing are NOT the notes that are taken from your Latex file. In my style file, I print a ’static’ notes page containing only the text notes and some horizontal lines. The purpose of my style is to print out a handout version that can be distributed to your audience, and it allows the audience to write their own notes next to your slides.

Hope this clarifies it for you.

Guido Diepen