I have a beamer template for a presentation. In this template, the headline shows the section name and the subsection to which the current slide belongs to.
However, even if I have defined a short title as in
\section[Short title]{The very long title that surely is way too long}
the headline always shows the long title.
Here is the code from the style file which shows the section name
\pgftext[at=\pgfpoint{\beamer@headline@lmargin}{-0.55\beamer@headline@height},left,center]{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[dp=0.5ex]{section in head/foot}
\shadowtextline{\insertsection}
\end{beamercolorbox}
}
So my question: Is there any other command for \insertsection in order to show the short title? (I assume no, as googleing it I didn't really find anything). Additionally, does it matter if not all sections have short titles?
Best Answer
Your outer theme should use
\insertsectionhead
instead of\insertsection
: