Beamers shrink is evil, but I want to use it on my notes-pages. (As a reminder: shrink automatically reduces the font-size so that all text fits on a slide). I use \note as a separate command after each frame (I prefer that to inline notes). Sometimes there is too much text to fit on the notes-page. Is there a way to shrink the text on the notes-page?
\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\setbeameroption{show only notes}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{A frame}
With not so much text
\end{frame}
\note{\begin{itemize}
\item Instead,
\item I
\item Have
\item A
\item Lot
\item I
\item Want
\item To
\item Say
\item And
\item Explain
\end{itemize}
}
\end{document}
Related question:
- Split beamer notes across multiple notes pages has the same problem, but a different approach, and uses inline
\notes.
If there is no way to do this, plan B may be to reduce the font size for all \note-pages. But not for the slides themselves!
\note{\begin{itemize}line with\note{\begin{itemize}\addtolength{\itemsep}{-0.5\baselineskip}shrinks it. But can't say I understood what your goal is. Put two identical frames if you like to have extra note space without incrementing the page number. It would be virtually invisible. I think it's much better than squeezing the efficiency on one page. – percusse Dec 16 '11 at 10:59normalsize, some needsmallfor all to fit, some needfootprintsize, etc. In reality I have a frame consisting of many slides; how would putting two identical frames (you mean\againframe?) be virtually invisible? I don't understand. – gerrit Dec 16 '11 at 12:42\againframeis one such option such that you can fill up the extra portion of the notes to that new space. It is of course a suggestion but seems natural to me although I might have misunderstood the whole problem. – percusse Dec 16 '11 at 12:54\beameroption{show only notes}that I use when I practice the presentation. I have one note page for each frame. This is nothing that the audience will see, so\againframeseems strange for me to use. It`s only for myself and only while practicing. – gerrit Dec 16 '11 at 13:12beamerframe, but typeset using its own code which can be found inbeamerbasenotes.sty(cf.\beamer@outsideframenote, ll. 59-103). Therefore, using normal frame options likeshrinkorallowframebreaksisn't possible. – diabonas Apr 6 '12 at 20:52