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How can I produce bullets like

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as they are used in beamer with itemize environments? I want to use them in the text not just for itemizations. Note: I would like the bullets not just to look more or less like the beamer itemize bullets but they should look identical in colour, shape, and size!

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  • which theme are you using to get that style of bullet? \labelitemi should give you the commands used for a first level itemize.
    – David Carlisle
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:33
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    Just the standard theme together with \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} ... \labelitemi gives error undefined control sequence !?!
    – lpdbw
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:40
  • sorry beamer doesn't follow the standard latex usage here, see the code in my answer which will use whichever bullet the beamer theme is using.
    – David Carlisle
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:44

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\documentclass{beamer}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\mysphere{%
  \parbox[t]{10pt}{\raisebox{0.2pt}{\beamer@usesphere{item projected}{bigsphere}}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\mysphere test
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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This (beamer-specific) solution works as well, and without @ :

\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}

\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}[ball] % Probably already provided by your theme

This is the bullet : \usebeamertemplate{itemize item}{}.

\end{frame}

\end{document}

Bullet

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  • Yes, it's already provided by my theme!
    – lpdbw
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 15:01
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It seems beamer doesn't define \labelitemi but 

 \csname @itemlabel\endcsname

works.

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  • Yep! Thanks. Could you briely explain the code?
    – lpdbw
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:44
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    Beamer uses \@itemlabel to make the label and then each theme defines that do whatever kind of marker it wants. the csname usage just means you don't need @ to be a letter, better to go \makeatletter\def\mybullet{\@itemlabel}\makeatother in the preamble so you can use \mybullet without worrying about @.
    – David Carlisle
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:48
  • Thx, but still a problem. Try this: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} \usepackage{xspace} \newcommand{\beamerbullet}{\makeatletter\def\mybullet{\@itemlabel}\makeatother\xspace} \begin{document} \beamerbullet abc\\ \beamerbullet cde \end{document} It won't produce any bullets!?
    – lpdbw
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 14:51
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    @lpdbw Don't use \makeat* inside of \newcommand. Wrap it around: \makeatletter\newcommand*\beamerbullet{\@itemlabel}\makeatother.
    – Qrrbrbirlbel
    Commented Nov 25, 2012 at 15:12

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