[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: AtBeginSection and insertsubsectionnavigation

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I'm trying to get a presentation which has for each section a leading slide which shows the name of the current section as well as a table of the subsections belonging to this section.

The first part is easy, I'm using

\AtBeginSection[]%
{%
\begin{frame}[plain]%
  \begin{center}%
    \usebeamerfont{section title}\insertsection%
  \end{center}%
\end{frame}%

However trying to use the \insertsubsectionnavigation command to insert the subsection table fails (maybe due to the fact that this command is meant to be used in templates?).

Is there anyway to get beamer to display the table for me, or do I have to re-create the code used for the \insertsubsectionnavigation command?

EDIT:

Okay, scratch that, after putting the insertsection and the insertsubsectionnavigation in beamercolorboxes they both show up, now I just have to figure out how to make them look good 🙂

Best Answer

Note that beamer can do this out-of-the-box:

\AtBeginSection[]{%
  \begin{frame}<beamer>
    \frametitle{Outline}
    \tableofcontents[sectionstyle=show/hide,subsectionstyle=hide/show/hide]
  \end{frame}
  \addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}% If you don't want them to affect the slide number
}

See the beamer manual, page 100, section 10.5 "Adding a Table of Contents", for more information.

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For specific subsections you may modify the behavior before they start: you could change \AtBeginSubsection locally. This means you could change that, for a subsection, but keep this change local by enclosing it within a group. For example, disabling \AtBeginSubsection and thus the subsection TOC:

\begingroup
\AtBeginSubsection{}
\subsection{No TOC}
\begin{frame}
...
\end{frame}
\endgroup
\subsection{Here's a TOC}

After the group ended, the globally by \AtBeginSubsection defined macro returns being active. The following subsections will show the TOC - I tested it.

This works because \AtBeginSubsection uses \def to redefine internal macros, which works local, thus visible only inside a group, in contrary to \gdef.

[Tex/LaTex] Beamer Mini-TOC

You can use the following settings:

\documentclass{beamer}

\AtBeginSection[]
{
\begin{frame}<beamer>
\frametitle{Outline}
\tableofcontents[currentsection,sectionstyle=show/hide,subsectionstyle=show/show/hide]
\end{frame}
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\tableofcontents[subsubsectionstyle=hide/hide]
\end{frame}

\section{Test Section One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsection{Test Subsection One One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsubsection{Test Subsubsection One One One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsubsection{Test Subsubsection One One Two}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsection{Test Subsection One Two}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsubsection{Test Subsubsection  One Two One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}

\section{Test Section Two}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsection{Test Subsection Two One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsection{Test Subsection Two Two}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}
\subsubsection{Test Subsubsection  Two Two One}
\begin{frame} test \end{frame}

\end{document}

The general ToC:

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The partial ToC for the first section:

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The partial ToC for the second section:

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