Leuven, E. wrote: > maybe call it > > beamer handout (article)
It's really built on top of article.cls (or any derivate of it). What beamerarticle.sty does is basically providing wrapper functions for the beamer environments to article environments (e.g. frametitle -> subsection*) And it's called "article mode" throughout the beamer documentation, whereas the "handout" document option does something completely different (i.e. outputting a presentation versions without overlays). Jürgen