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Beamer, overlay and standalone

Short version Is it possible to use standalone to produce externally my figures with overlays and include them directly in my main document ? More details Using the answers of the question Beamer ...
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Can I simulate colour-blindness (in Beamer / TikZ)

I'm putting together a talk on figures for publications, and one point I want to make is about them being accessible to colour-blind readers/viewers. So far I've been using ColorOracle to simulate ...
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Incorrect PDF page numbering in beamer with notes on same page

I have created a beamer presentation and I want to show the notes on the same page using the beamer option show notes on second screen=right. With this option disabled, the page numbers in the ...
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What is \beamer@spacingcover for?

While I was doing some research on beamer's overlay specification, I found the following two lines in beamerbaseoverlay.sty: \def\beamer@@spacingcover{\beamer@smuggle{\pgfsys@begininvisible\pgfsys@...
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xetex beamer math accent

The math accent looks ugly if I compile my beamer slides with xelatex. \hat x in xelatex \hat x in pdflatex Here is the MWE: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} \...
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Option poster in the \movie command in Beamer doesn’t work

I am trying to get the first frame of an avi file show before playing the avi file using the command \movie[width=1.7in,height=1.7in,poster,loop,autostart]{}{filename.avi} The PDF file compiled ...
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Exporting a timed presentation (automatic slideshow) to image sequence (video) with fixed frame rate?

I may be beating a dead horse here; but I hope I'll be forgiven, as I have at least a Latex MWE, and some notes about packages :). The thing is this: for a long time I've been looking for some sort of ...
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Change background in the same frame

I was wondering whether would be possible to change the background in the same frame. I mean something like the following code \documentclass{beamer} \defbeamertemplate{background}{back1}{--some stuff-...
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Redefine overlay-aware beamer command using xparse

Suppose to want the \texttt command accept two optional arguments with a default value before and after the mandatory one, in order to specify anything (here spaces) that should be prepended or ...
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How can I highlight specific lines of code with minted in beamer?

I've been working on a set of slides in beamer, and one feature I really like as I'm learning is alert. In one part of my presentation, I have a relatively complex bit of code that's 12 lines long ...
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Beamer: Uncover underbrace & overbrace weird behaviour

I recently needed to cover some over- and underbrace and found a solution here: Beamer: Uncover underbrace However, I was not 100% satisfied with the offered solutions, in particular, my goal was to ...
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Beamer + glossaries: how to make \printglossaries show the location in frames rather than PDF pages

I'm trying to use the glossaries package with beamer. In \printglossaries, the entries are shown with page number. The problem I have is that page number is pages in PDF: I'd like to see which slide (...
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Embedding videos in beamer LaTeX

I followed slavishly the code shown in this video: \usepackage{multimedia} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{frame}{Name-of-the-frame} \centering \movie[externalviewer]{ \includegraphics[width=\...
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Hide particular lines of algorithm2e code in beamer

I have a long algorithm that I present in my lecture and I want to distribute it over several frames to be able to slowly go through the details. I have the whole algorithm in an algorithm2e ...
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Change parskip in beamer without side effects

Background If I understand correctly, beamer does not distinguish between lines and paragraphs, as far a vertical spacing is concerned. As an example, there is no visible difference in this MWE: \...

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