{overlays} is a term used by the {beamer} document class to describe the layering of slides.
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Beamer overlay and counter
I have a counter that I want to use for the beamer \onslide command.
Using
\newcounter{coun}
%....
%
\onslide<\coun ->{ ....}
doesn't work. What is the correct way to do this?
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How do I add custom beamer actions that change an argument?
The beamer manual says:
You can easily add your own actions:
An action specification like
⟨action⟩@⟨slide numbers⟩ simply
inserts an environment called
⟨action⟩env around the \item or
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How can I distribute beamer overlayareas in handout mode across multiple frames?
I have a beamer frame with an overlayarea environment. Inside that environment are some bits marked \only<n> so that they appear on consecutive slides.
\begin{frame}
\begin{theorem}
...
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Take 2: How do automatic overlay specifications work in Beamer (in a nested situation)
I had previous asked a question about this, but I feel that it wasn't focused enough and the answers got a little confused...so instead of editing that question, I've opted to start a new one....I ...
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How do automatic overlay specification work in beamer?
I've tried reading the excellent Beamer user guide, but failed to understand.
I understand the basic idea: there's a counter beamerpauses that is advanced by a + inside an overlay specification. You ...
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Using \multicolumn with beamer inside an overlay command
I'd like to have a conditional \multicolumn command depending on the slide, so I put it inside an alt or an only command, as follows:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
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Adding color to a table column as a beamer overlay
I'm trying to have an overlay that adds a background color to a column of a table in beamer.
I can create a table with a colored second column using the colortbl package.
\begin{tabular}[]{r ...
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How to make beamer overlays with Tikz node
I have a diagram of 4 nodes in my beamer slide.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{centering}
\begin{tikzpicture}[system/.style={draw,rectangle,rounded corners=3,minimum width=2cm,text width=1.8cm,text ...
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Avoiding jumping frames in beamer
Sometimes I want an element on a frame to change in steps.
I do this by
\only<2>{
...
}
\only<3>{
...
}
etc.
But this causes the frame to jump due to different sizes of the ...
