[Tex/LaTex] Beamer: Pausing before the first item in itemize[<+->]

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In Beamer, \begin{itemize}[<+->] causes items to appear one-by-one. However, item 1 is visible starting from the first slide itself. Is there a way to insert a pause before the first item too?

of course I can manually type

\item<2-> first
\item<3-> second
...

but is there a shortcut way to specify this?

Best Answer

Simply write \pause before the itemize environment. This will achieve the effect you want.

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To increase the overlay counter manually (your title), use:

\addtocounter{beamerpauses}{X}

where X is the number of frames... or

\stepcounter{beamerpauses}

to increment the counter by 1

For example, you proceed like this:

\begin{frame}
\stepcounter{beamerpauses}
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item A
\item B
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

Another possibility is to set the overlay number by hand:

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item<2-> A
\item<3-> B
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

Edit: it seems also possible to use this kind of construction that could fit to your purpose:

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}[<+(1)->]
\item A
\item B
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

or this:

\begin{frame}[<+(1)->]
\begin{itemize}
\item A
\item B
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

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Supplying <+-> sets the stepping environment until the end of the itemize.

To easily let two items show themselves together do:

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item a
  \item<.->
\end{itemize}

The . tells the item, to not increment the slide counter.

This works fine for single items, however, if you use nested levels like this:

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item a
  \begin{itemize}[<.->]
    \item 1
    ...
    \item 10
   \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

you will find that a and 1 -- 10 are shown together. This is probably not what you want. For tweaking there is an optional argument to the counter argument .(#) where # is a number. If you specify <.(1)-> it will be equivalent to adding 1 to the slide where it will be shown. Hence the trick is to step the counter and force it to not increment:

\begin{itemize}[<+->]
  \item a
  \begin{itemize}[<.(1)->]
    \item 1
    ...
    \item 10
  \end{itemize}
  \pause
  \item z
\end{itemize}

The second pause is a local step counter. One would think you can use it instead of the (1) notation, however the nested list complicates things and the above method is more lenient.

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