I am refloating a long-standing Beamer problem and will put a good bounty to it, to see if we can all solve this problem once and for all...
I am following on a previous question I posted here, and an old post that never got a proper answer, and adding some more information and problems detected just recently.
The problems are related to the navigation links in Beamer presentations WITH NOTES.
- If you try to show your notes on the left, navigation links on the top of slides just plain do not work.
- If you do like I did and switch notes to the right, the links on top work.
BUT STILL WE RUN INTO THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS:
- Links in the table of contents do not work at all.
- You get infinite amounts of the following warnings (one per slide):
destination with the same identifier * has been already used, duplicate ignored
I think this is a really big problem with Beamer, I do not know if it is a bug or it can be solved somehow...
Turning off the links is not an option; though we will remove the warnings, the main reason why some of us use Beamer is for the awesome navigation that takes us quickly to a slide in a big presentation during the questions round.
It would be of great advantage if the navigation feature could be used together with the ability to add notes next to the slides... In fact, I do not understand why this is not possible.
I gave up trying to add the notes on the left, so let's try to make everything work at least with the notes on the right...
With notes on the right, navigation links on top of slides work, but we still need to make navigation in table of contents work too, and get rid of those terribly annoying warnings.
This is a MWE to start playing with:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right}%better notes on right
\mode<presentation> {
\usetheme{Singapore}
}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain]
\titlepage
\note{
Notes for the title page
}
\end{frame}
\section*{Outline}
\begin{frame}[plain]
\frametitle{Outline}
\tableofcontents
\note{
Notes for the table of contents
}
\end{frame}
\section{Frame 1}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame with notes 1}
FIRST FRAME CONTENTS
\note{
Notes for the first frame
}
\end{frame}
\section{Frame 2}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame with notes 2}
SECOND FRAME CONTENTS
\note{
Notes for the second frame
}
\end{frame}
\section{Frame 3}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Frame with notes 3}
SECOND FRAME CONTENTS
\note{
Notes for the third frame
}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
EXTRA BONUS POINTS IF YOU ARE ABLE TO MAKE NAVIGATION WORK IN HANDOUT FORMAT TOO, WHERE NAVIGATION DOES NOT WORK AT ALL! Just use:
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=5mm]
\setbeameroption{show notes}
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016/Arch Linux)
,beamer.cls 2015/01/05 3.36
andpgfpages.sty 2011/01/05
.handout
mode. As others say, it is the use ofpgfpages
which destroys the links.@
to ping particular people, if you want to address them. No, the links do not work withpgfpages
. That is expected. It does, however, work inhandout
mode.