I think our Beamer manual is extremely helpful for learning LyX's Beamer support. I've gone back to it several times as I work with Beamer for lecture slides.
One feature of Beamer that I find myself relying on more and more as I work on non-trivial slides is "relative offsets". For example, see the attached screenshot, where I highlight the "6". The "6" means to trigger the action (in this case highlight in red) on the 6th slide. If we replace the 6 with "+-" or ".(1)", we get identical PDF output. The advantage of using relative off-sets in this case, is that if we add another item to the list, or we add another manual pause, the relative offset does not need to be changed, but the absolute reference would need to be changed (e.g., if we add an item before we would need to change the 6 to a 7). I'm conflicted as to whether to suggest changing the "6" to "+-", and to make similar changes. On the one hand, I think it is good practice to use relative offsets. On the other hand, it adds complication for users' potentially first introduction to Beamer, which I find is already a lot to handle. An alternative to changing them would be to have a few slides at the end focused on only relative offsets. Or perhaps to just put in a LyX note that an alternative would be "+-" instead of the hardcoded 6. I don't have a strong opinion on any of this, and would be happy to forget about it if things are preferred as is. By the way, here is a very helpful reference for learning about relative offsets in Beamer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/154527/12212 Scott
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