Hi all,
Not sure if I should post these questions here or go to the beamer home page on SourceForge. They're mainly, if not exclusively, specific to using beamer with LyX.
1. I started a new document using the Beamer class, entered the skeleton of my presentation, and viewed it. Everything was fine. I then started entering content. Somewhere along the line (I'm not sure where), the definition of \lyxframeend disappeared. I worked around it by adding \def\lyxframeend{} to the preamble, but I'm wondering if this is a bug, or operator error? The only time I tried using the Beamer template, \lyxframeend was undefined from the outset, and I had to resort to the same work-around.
2. I'm trying to make a slide with two columns. The right column contains six bullet points, which I want to reveal one by one. The left column contains six images, with a different image corresponding to each bullet point. If I were using straight LaTeX, the code for the images would look like \includegraphics<1>{...}, \includegraphics<2>{...}, etc. Adding <1> etc. as LaTeX options by right clicking on the graphics in LyX doesn't work, as expected (<1> ends up inside the [] options brackets). The work-around I found was putting \only<1>{ in ERT on the left of the first graphic and } in ERT on the right, and so on. It works, but it's clunky. Is there a better way?
3. I'm using US letter paper (8.5in x 11in) with default margins. Frames are displayed in landscape mode. To get approximately even columns, I thought I would need to specify the first column width to be something akin to 4.5in (assuming one inch margins). By trial and error, I discovered that setting the left column's width to 2.3in gives me an approximately even split. As a mathematician, I am wounded by this. What am I missing?
4. Since I added a block environment, LyX has begun producing a spurious error message. When I click View->PDF (pdflatex), LyX tells me that there is one LaTeX error -- but it does not display an error box, C-g goes nowhere, the LaTeX log file contains no error messages and the complete and correct PDF output file is sitting in the buffer directory. Any ideas? (Should I submit this as a bug, and, if so, should I submit it to the LyX developers or the beamer developer?)
Woefully confused (despite the excellent manual, and yes I read it),
-- Paul
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