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In Beamer, we need to create each slide separately. Is it possible to generate those slides automatically (just like pages an article type document does)?
Somewhat related: I occasionally see some bits are going beyond the bottom of a slide (texts or anything). Creating slides automatically, I hope, will remove this problem.
I think you can get that with modifying the notes page template. One example that's not exactly what you want, but is close, and pretty easy to work with:
%%% For normal presentations
%\documentclass{beamer}
%%%
%%% For handouts with lots of extra notes
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm] % could also use letterpaper
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=bottom} % Beamer manual, section 19.3
%%%
\setbeamertemplate{note page}[plain] % Beamer manual, section 19.1
\newlength{\parskipbackup}
\setlength{\parskipbackup}{\parskip}
\newlength{\parindentbackup}
\setlength{\parindentbackup}{\parindent}
\newcommand{\baselinestretchbackup}{\baselinestretch}
\usetemplatenote{\rmfamily \scriptsize%
\setlength{\parindent}{1em} \setlength{\parskip}{1ex}%
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}%
\noindent \insertnote%
\setlength{\parskip}{\parskipbackup}%
\setlength{\parindent}{\parindentbackup}%
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{\baselinestretchbackup}%
}
\title{The Title}
\author{The Author}
\usetheme{Copenhagen}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
Here's some content, with no notes added.
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Here's some content, with notes added.
\end{frame}
\note{
Here are things to remember:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Stress this first. (We probably need to ensure that this item wraps properly, too.)
\item Then this.
\end{enumerate}
Afterwards, talk about other things. Stall for as long as possible. Eventually, we'll
run out of room on this line, and will spill over onto another one.
And if we need a second paragraph, we can add one of those, too. Math like Euler's
identity
\[
1+e^{i \pi}=0
\]
isn't hard to add, but you may want to adjust the default math font family back to the
Roman default.
For some unknown reason, it appears that the last paragraph gets some weird line
spacing unless we put an extra paragraph break in the template before resetting the
paragraph-related lengths.
}
\end{document}
Adapted from Changing the textwidth of the notes in Beamer and Customizing LaTeX beamer note pages.
A note page isn't implemented as a normal beamer frame, but typeset using its own code which can be found in beamerbasenotes.sty (cf. \beamer@outsideframenote, ll. 59-103). Therefore, using normal frame options like shrink or allowframebreaks isn't possible.
Best Answer
In Beamer, this corresponds to the
allowframebreakoption:With
\framebreakyou can insert a forced break onto the next slide (similar to\newpagein article).The details are described in §8.1 of the Beamer user guide.
However, in my opinion, this option should be used with care! An automatic splitting of the content makes only sense, if the content itself is automatically generated. Bibliographies are an obvious example. I strongly suggest to also read the respective words of warnings from the Beamer user guide (p61):