[Tex/LaTex] BeamerArticle and \\

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I am trying to use beamer and beamerarticle to generate slides and accompanying notes. I noticed that the latex command \\ to start a new paragraph does not seem to work in the beamerarticle mode. Here is a minimal reproducible example. You will notice on compilation to pdf, that both sentences are printed on the same line. Any thoughts on why this is happening, and if there is a way to overcome this behavior?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}

\begin{document}

\frame{\frametitle{Some Slide}
\noindent this is good \\ this is bad
}

\end{document}

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New paragraphs are not started with \\. Use an empty line or \par instead.

Beside this: The behaviour of \\ is explained in the beameruserguide. In my version in section 21.2.1 on page 208. You must use \\<all> if you want a line break also in article mode.

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    \documentclass{beamer}
    %\usepackage{beamerarticle}


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    \tableofcontents
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    \end{frame}

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produces the following frame (short tile in the navigation bar, full title in the ToC):

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Now, using the article version:

\documentclass{article}
%\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerarticle}


\newcommand\Section[2][]{%
  \section<presentation>[#1]{#2}
  \section<article>{#2}
}
\usetheme{Berlin}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\Section[Short title 1]{First Section's Full Title}
\begin{frame}
test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

we receive the following ToC (full title in the ToC):

enter image description here

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If you move \AtBeginSection declaration to the preamble, it will work even with ignorenonframetext option.

I've could not find any explicit reference in beameruserguide about where to place \AtBeginSection commands. But on section 3 "Tutorial: Euclid's Presentation" a conference presentation example (conference-ornate-20min.en.tex) is detailed. In it, \AtBeginSection command is placed before \begin{document} so I always used this way without any problem.

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