[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: How to Disable `\pause` Temporarily

beamerpause

Currently I am preparing a presentation in beamer. I make an extensive use of the \pause-command. However, it would be good to disable \pause temporarily to quickly go through the presentation. Additionally, I would like to send the presentation to members of the audience without all the split frames and without deleting or %-ing the \pauses manually. Does anyone has a solution?

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This is done automatically using the handout class option. Simply use

\documentclass[handout,....]{beamer}

Then recompile. This gives you the final state of each frame.

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The following solution wraps each potential frame in its own environment and both of these in a parent environment. In wide mode the inner ones are not doing anything except setting the frame title and the outer environment is the frame. In the other mode the outer is a no-op and the inner are the frames. This uses the environment key of the frame environment to tell it which \end ends the frame content.

This might not (yet) support the full range of frame optional arguments (<>, [< >] etc.).

\documentclass{beamer}

\newif\ifwide
\widetrue

\ifwide

\newenvironment<>{frames}[1][]{%
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=frames,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}
\newenvironment<>{firstframe}[2][]{
  \frametitle{#2}%
}{}%
\newenvironment<>{secondframe}[2][]{}{}%

\else

\newenvironment<>{frames}[1][]{%
}{%
}
\newenvironment<>{firstframe}[1][]{
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=firstframe,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}%
\newenvironment<>{secondframe}[1][]{
  \begin{frame}#2[environment=firstframe,#1]%
}{%
  \end{frame}%
}%

\fi

\begin{document}

\begin{frames}
\begin{firstframe}{A frame}
    Some text (...)
\end{firstframe}
\begin{secondframe}{A second frame}
    Some text (continued)
\end{secondframe}
\end{frames}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Disabling beamer animations easily

I guess there are at least three alternatives for your problem, the four slides in the following example all do the same:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Darmstadt}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
    \item first one
        \pause
    \item second one
        \pause
    \item third one
        \pause
    \item fourth one
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
    \item<1-> first one
    \item<2-> second one
    \item<3-> third one
    \item<4-> fourth one
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
    \item<+-> first one
    \item<+-> second one
    \item<+-> third one
    \item<+-> fourth one
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item first one
    \item second one
    \item third one
    \item fourth one
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

the first one is you solution
the second one tells at which slides to appear, <3-> meaning all starting from the third one
the third one is used to increase the counter beamerpause (=1 at beginning of frame) by one at each encounter
the fourth one (probably the one you would go for) sets the "increase beamerpause" as a default behaviour for all list items

Edit 1: You can also set the behaviour from the fourth example as general. All frames following \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->} will set pauses for every actionenv environment and every \item. To be in effect globally, you need to set this outside of a frame, e.g. as the first line after \begin{document}, before the first frame.

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