Is it possible to put the title slide to somewhere in the middle of the presentation when I create my presentation with Beamer? That is, suppose I want to show a couple of slides in the very beginning of my presentation, and after these slides I want to show the title slide (i.e., the slide that includes the title, authors and etc.). I've seen a post where some nice people discussed on creating sections in the presentation, but this is not exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks very much in advance.
[Tex/LaTex] Shifting the title page to the middle of the presentation in Beamer
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Question 1: You can use any of the fields given by \author, \title, \date, or \institute to place the image in the title page; if none of those fields allow you to achieve the desired placement, you can use the textpos package. The example below uses the \author field to add the image.
Question 2: With the help of the textpos package you can add the logo to the frametitle template using \addtobeamertemplate.
A simple example code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\usepackage{textpos}
\title{The title}
\author[The author]{\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}\\The Author}
\institute[Inst.]{The Institute}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
\begin{textblock*}{100mm}(.85\textwidth,-1cm)
\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}
\end{textblock*}}
\begin{frame}{Motivation}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}
\end{document}
As osjerick mentions in a comment, the above solution won't behave correctly if \framesubtitle is used (the image will shift downwards); in this case, a TikZ approach can be used to prevent the movement:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{beaver}
\usepackage{tikz}
\title{The title}
\author[The author]{\includegraphics[height=1cm,width=2cm]{cat}\\The Author}
\institute[Inst.]{The Institute}
\date{\today}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}
\addtobeamertemplate{frametitle}{}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=north east,yshift=2pt] at (current page.north east) {\includegraphics[height=0.8cm]{cat}};
\end{tikzpicture}}
\begin{frame}{Motivation}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Motivation}
\framesubtitle{A}
Now the logo is visible
\end{frame}
\end{document}
beamer holds the selected mode in the macro \beamer@currentmode so what you need to do is change that mid-way through your document.
\documentclass[pdftex,handout]{beamer}
%\url{http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/91691/86}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\changemode[1]{%
\gdef\beamer@currentmode{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Frame 1}
Step 1 \pause Step 2 \pause Step 3
\end{frame}
% I want to switch to presentation mode here!
\changemode{beamer}
\begin{frame}{Frame 2}
Step 4 \pause Step 5 \pause Step 6
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Of course, there may be things "under the bonnet" which depend on the mode during initialisation so it might be that you want to start in beamer mode, switch to handout (or maybe trans) at the start of the slides, then back to beamer for the slides for the current lecture.
Best Answer
As it turns out, it is pretty straightforward to solve this problem. What I needed to solve this problem was just moving
\maketitlecommand into the middle where I want to show the title page. I put all the information that I want to use in the title (such as the authors) with the proper commands before\begin{document}, and then I moved\maketitleinto the middle which solved the problem.