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ignoreframe option (kind of) in Beamerarticle?

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**My question**

`ignorenonframetext` in `beamer` enables to have only what's between `\begin{frame}` and `\end{frame}`. But in `Beamerarticle`, how can we skip code between `\begin{frame}` and `\end{frame}` (i.e. it keeps only `nonframetext` in article mode) and without adding overlay on each frame ?

I don't see an equivalent to (non existing) `ignoreframe` option in  beamerarticle.

I'd really like to avoid the heavy overlays `\begin{frame}<presentation>`

NB: question posted [here](https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/547405/ignoreframe-option-in-beamerarticle) but given my previous question, it made probably more sense to put it here too.

**Context**

I use `beamerarticle` (in `\mode<article>`) to write in parallel a book and slides from each chapter.

The workflow that consists in keeping both
- text to be used in article (for a report or a book)
- and frames (based on the text) in the same file 
works very well. 

Text is consistent with slides and I don't have to be schizophrenic with 2 files, one for text i could use in article and one for frames.

Thanks to [here](https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=1089), I can include slides with a format that differentiates what's in textonly/article and what's in frame/beamer and monitor the consistency article/slides.


Is there an equivalent to (non existing) `ignoreframe` option ?

Top Answer

samcarter

Similar to the approach in https://groups.google.com/d/msg/de.comp.text.tex/ycdX_TPNjjM/sK17Tse1AgAJ one could add the `beamer` overlay specification as default in article mode:


```
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
%\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage[envcountsect]{beamerarticle}


\makeatletter
\mode
<article>
{
  \long\def\beamer@@@@frame<#1>[#2]{%
    \global\let\insertframetitle=\@empty%
    \global\let\insertframesubtitle=\@empty%
    \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax%
    \refstepcounter{framenumber}%
    \beamer@slideinframe=0\relax%
    \beamer@anotherslidefalse%
    \beamer@masterdecode{beamer,#1}%
    \ifbeamer@anotherslide%
      \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@dosingleframe%
    \else% no slides in frame
      \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@donoframe%
    \fi%
    \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax%
    \beamer@howtotreatframe}
}


\makeatother

\begin{document}

test

\begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Title of the frame}
    \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame}

    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
        \item first
        \item Second
        \item third
    \end{itemize}

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}<beamer>
    \frametitle{Title of the frame}
    \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame}

    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
        \item first
        \item Second
        \item third
    \end{itemize}

\end{frame}

\end{document}
```

(one could probably shorten the code a bit with some xpatch magic...)

*Caveat:*

Frames will even be hidden if they are explicitly labelled for the article, e.g. `\begin{frame}<article>` won't work

I posted your answer (with all credit and links of course) on Tex.SE . I've been using it for some time now and it works extremely well. It creates an interesting framework in article mode. It's really convenient to see what has to be placed in article mode and what are the key info that should be displayed in beamer. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/547405/ignoreframe-option-in-beamerarticle/553722#553722

``` \documentclass[11pt]{article} %\documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[envcountsect]{beamerarticle} \makeatletter \def\foo{} \mode <article> { \def\foo{beamer} \long\def\beamer@@@@frame<#1>[#2]{% \global\let\insertframetitle=\@empty% \global\let\insertframesubtitle=\@empty% \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax% \refstepcounter{framenumber}% \beamer@slideinframe=0\relax% \beamer@anotherslidefalse% \beamer@masterdecode{\foo,#1}% \ifbeamer@anotherslide% \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@dosingleframe% \else% no slides in frame \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@donoframe% \fi% \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax% \beamer@howtotreatframe} } \makeatother \begin{document} test \begin{frame} \frametitle{Title of the frame} \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}<beamer> \frametitle{Title of the frame} \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \def\foo{} \begin{frame} content... \end{frame} \end{document} ```

I am starting to integrate your code. And I notice a strange behaviour. I want to definien a \newif\ifExcludeFrames \ExcludeFramestrue to load your code or \ExcludeFramesfalse and frames are displayed. \documentclass[11pt]{article} %\documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[envcountsect]{beamerarticle} \newif\ifExcludeFrames \ExcludeFramesfalse \ifExcludeFrames \makeatletter \mode <article> { \long\def\beamer@@@@frame<#1>[#2]{% \global\let\insertframetitle=\@empty% \global\let\insertframesubtitle=\@empty% \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax% \refstepcounter{framenumber}% \beamer@slideinframe=0\relax% \beamer@anotherslidefalse% \beamer@masterdecode{beamer,#1}% \ifbeamer@anotherslide% \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@dosingleframe% \else% no slides in frame \let\beamer@howtotreatframe\beamer@donoframe% \fi% \beamer@slideinframe=1\relax% \beamer@howtotreatframe} } \makeatother \fi \begin{document} test \begin{frame} {Title of the frame} {Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}<beamer> {Title of the frame} {Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}

Or if you are brave, you could wrap all the frames into comments: ``` \documentclass[11pt]{article} %\documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[envcountsect]{beamerarticle} \usepackage{verbatim} \mode <article> { \setbeamertemplate{frame begin}{\comment} \setbeamertemplate{frame end}{\endcomment} } \begin{document} test \begin{frame} \frametitle{Title of the frame} \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}<beamer> \frametitle{Title of the frame} \framesubtitle{Subtitle of the frame} \begin{itemize}[<+->] \item first \item Second \item third \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document} ```

mmm, at first I was thinking about something like the following, but it seems to be more tricky with article.... ``` \documentclass{beamer} \makeatletter \def\beamer@frame<#1>{ \@ifnextchar[{\beamer@@@frame<1>}{\beamer@@@frame<1>[]}} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{frame} abc \pause def \end{frame} \begin{frame} abc \pause def \only<3>{ghi} \end{frame} \end{document} ```

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