[Tex/LaTex] How to remove frame title from only a single slide within a frame, including vertical spacing/placeholder

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Question

Is there a way to temporarily completely remove the frame title from a single slide of a given frame? By completely remove, I mean the vertical space for the title as well.

What I've tried

I tried using the \begin{frame}{\only<...>{...}} technique, but it preserves the vertical spacing.

Reason

Midway through one of my slides while I'm deep within a itemize environment with overlay specifications, I want to display a large full-screen figure. During this full-screen part, I want the frame title to be non-existent (as if it were specified with \frame{}). After the full-screen image, I want the title and the rest of itemization to reappear.

I can implement all of this except removing the frame title from a single slide.

MWE

\documentclass{beamer}

\mode<presentation>
\setbeamercovered{transparent}

\begin{document}



\begin{frame}[t]{Frame number 1}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item This is frame number 1. 
            Compare the vertical placement of this itemize environment 
            to that on the next frame.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}



\begin{frame}[t]{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item This is frame number 2. Note that this second frame has no vertical space for the title.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}



\begin{frame}[t]{\only<1,3>{Frame number 3}}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item <1-> I want the title showing on this slide, as it does.
        \item <2-> I want the title completely gone here, 
            including the vertical space it occupies. 
            (In my actual presentation, there will be a full-screen 
            figure in this position, 
            and the itemize environment will disappear.
        \item <3-> I want the title to come back
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Best Answer

Well I suppose I should have tried for another 10 minutes.

I solved the issue by using surrounding a \frametitle command within an \only command. (In an earlier attempt, I reversed the nesting, which obviously didn't work.

Here it is in action:

\documentclass{beamer}

\mode<presentation>
\setbeamercovered{transparent}

\begin{document}



\begin{frame}[t]{Frame number 1}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item This is frame number 1. 
            Compare the vertical placement of this itemize environment 
            to that on the next frame.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}



\begin{frame}[t]{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item This is frame number 2. Note that this second frame has no vertical space for the title.
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}



\begin{frame}[t]{}
    \only<1,3>{\frametitle{Frame number 3}}
    \begin{itemize}
        \item <1-> I want the title showing on this slide, as it does.
        \item <2-> I want the title completely gone here, 
            including the vertical space it occupies. 
            (In my actual presentation, there will be a full-screen 
            figure in this position, 
            and the itemize environment will disappear.
        \item <3-> I want the title to come back
    \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] How to modify itemize vertical spacing within blocks in beamer

There are two things going on in this situation. For those who know about LaTeX's list parameters, there is a \topsep being added before the itemize list. The other is that this item is starting in vertical mode, so a \partopsep is also being added.

We thus need to do two things in this situation: (1) set \topsep to zero for the list, via a redefinition \@listi, and (2) clear \partopsep.

The best way to do this is to add this to block begin template. Here is an example, based on the essentials of your code.

\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usetheme{default}
\usecolortheme{crane}

\setbeamertemplate{itemize items}[square]

\setbeamercolor{item}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{block title}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{block body}{bg=white}

\makeatletter
\addtobeamertemplate{block begin}{
\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
              \topsep    0pt
              \parsep    0pt
              \itemsep   3pt plus 2pt minus 3pt}
\partopsep 0pt
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}


\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{text vs. item blocks}
  \begin{columns}[t]
    \begin{column}{0.42\textwidth}
      \begin{block}{text block}
        block block block block block\vadjust{\hrule}
        block block block block block 
        block block block block block 
        block block block block block 
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{0.48\textwidth}
      \begin{block}{item block}
        \begin{itemize}
        \item item\vadjust{\hrule}
        \item item
        \item item
        \end{itemize}
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
  \end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Sample output

I have placed the blocks side-by-side and added the \vadjust{\hrule} for illustration purposes. The values for \@listi are based on beamers defaults which are

\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
            \topsep 3\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus2.5\p@
            \parsep 0\p@
            \itemsep3\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus3\p@}

\partopsep has default value

2.0pt plus 1.0pt minus 1.0pt

If you want the individual lines to match up, then you should also put \itemsep equal to 0pt in the above code.

Beaware that if the titles of the two blocks have different heights/depths then theh body will move accordingly and you will loose your alignment again. You can cover yourself a little by adding an appropriate strut to your block titles.

Note that the above code also kills \topsep for subsquent uses of itemize within the same block. If this is a problem, you might try to just adjust \partopsep to cancel out \topsep and ensure that your subsequent lists in the block do not start in vertical mode.

[Tex/LaTex] Removing frame number from title page (Warsaw theme)

1) What should I add in the preamble in order to avoid frame numbering of the title page (first page). The numbering should continue with 2 in the Presentation Outline.

If you use

 \begin{frame}
 \titlepage 
 \end{frame}

the number of the Outline is 2. In order to no print the frame numbers on the title frame, use either the [plain] option, which removes the footer or redefine the footer for the title page.

2) What should I do if I want the numbering to starts from the Presentation Outline (that is, the title page is not counted at all in the total number of pages).

This is exactly what the

\begin{frame}[noframenumbering]
\titlepage
\end{frame}

you mentioned in your question, does.

3) How I should modify above code in order to move the numbering in the right corner instead of the left one;

move the \insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber to the other side of the footer

\documentclass[table]{beamer} 

\usetheme{Warsaw} 

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color} 

\defbeamertemplate*{footline}{shadow theme}
{%
  \leavevmode%
  \hbox{\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,leftskip=.3cm plus1fil,rightskip=.3cm]{author in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\hfill\insertshortauthor
  \end{beamercolorbox}%
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
    \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle\hfill\insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber%
  \end{beamercolorbox}}%
  \vskip0pt%
}

\title{Linearized Model}
\subtitle{Results from Numerical Implementation}
\author[DA, GC]{\underline{First Author}, Second Author} 
\date{\today} 

\AtBeginSection[]  
{
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Presentation Outline} 
\tableofcontents[currentsection] 
\end{frame}
} 

\begin{document}

{

\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{%
    \leavevmode%
    \hbox{\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,leftskip=.3cm plus1fil,rightskip=.3cm]{author in head/foot}%
            \usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}\hfill\insertshortauthor
        \end{beamercolorbox}%
        \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=2.5ex,dp=1.125ex,leftskip=.3cm,rightskip=.3cm plus1fil]{title in head/foot}%
            \usebeamerfont{title in head/foot}\insertshorttitle%
        \end{beamercolorbox}}%
        \vskip0pt%
    }


\begin{frame}[noframenumbering]
\titlepage
\end{frame}


}

\section{Overview of VENU Model}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Motivations for the Modeling\ldots}
\begin{itemize}
\item BlaBla
\item BlaBla
\item BlaBla
\item BlaBla
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Original work; 2012}
\begin{itemize}
\pause \item BlaBla
\pause \item BlaBla
\pause \item BlaBla
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\end{document}