How to reduce font size of TOC on lyx beamer

Question

I am using a LyX beamer template which can be downloaded from this link.

I'm having trouble with a large TOC, which can't fit on one page. How can I reduce the font size of TOC, so that it can be fit on one page?

Answer 1

This isn't a complete solution, as the numbers in the item bullets aren't reduced in size, but as suggested by recluze, putting the \tableofcontents in a scriptsize environment does reduce the font size of the text in the TOC. To do this:

1. Put the text cursor immediately before the Table of Contents object in LyX.

2. Add an ERT by Ctrl + L or Insert --> TeX code, and type

   \begin{scriptsize}
   

   in this.

3. Do the same immediately after the TOC object, and type

   \end{scriptsize}
   

   In LyX you'll see something like this:

Without the ERTs, the result is

while with the ERTs you get

There are other sizes available, the smallest being tiny, followed by scriptsize, footnotesize, small and then normalsize. The latter, as you may guess, is the standard size.

For reference, the larger sizes are large, Large, LARGE, huge and HUGE.

Answer 2

You could split table of contents with parameters, such;

\tableofcontents[sections={1-4}]

and

\tableofcontents[sections={5-}]

in different frames.