Selecting specific slides for handout?

Question

Consider the following MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \scriptsize
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item<+->
      \item<2,3,5,7,11>  
      \item<2,4,6,8,10,12>
      \item<3,6,9,12>
      \item<5,10>
      \item<1-6>
      \item<+->
      \item<7-12>
      \item<1-3>
      \item<4-6>
      \item<7-9>
      \item<9-12>
    \end{enumerate}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

In this frame, I use, as I am sometimes forced to do, hard coded slide numbers. The question is however valid, and perhaps even with greater might, to the case where one uses relative offsets and manual tweaking of the beamerpauses counter.

I would like to select specific slides to be included in the handouts. Something of the sort of \begin{frame}<handout:5,11>, but this does something else as far as I could determine.

Is there any easy way to do that?

Answer 1

You can select invidual slides in a handout as you want; you just need to specify that the relevant overlay commands apply in handout mode too (specifications with no mode default to beamer:). If you only want to use beamer and handout modes then it's easiest to do this with the mode key all:

\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}<handout:5,7>
  \scriptsize
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item<all:+->
      \item<all:2,3,5,7,11>  
      \item<all:2,4,6,8,10,12>
      \item<all:3,6,9,12>
      \item<all:5,10>
      \item<all:1-6>
      \item<all:+->
      \item<all:7-12>
      \item<all:1-3>
      \item<all:4-6>
      \item<all:7-9>
      \item<all:9-12>
    \end{enumerate}
\end{frame}

\end{document}