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I am trying to use LaTeX to generate handouts and presentation slides with beamer.

To switch between the two types of output, I currently have to add/remove a [handout] option and set/remove options in the preamble.

Is there any way to access the class options as a variable in the head, then maybe ...

Read Section 14 (Animations, Sounds, and Slide Transitions; p. 135ff) of the beamer user guide.
I did. That section talks about the \movie command. This apparently does not embed the movie into the file, so you have to copy movies and pdf files together.

I also doubt that it works with SVG / EPS ...

Preferences -> Output -> General seems to solve this problem so that you can overwrite automatically on export.

And here is some matlab code that can be used to make animations.

% This file should create the files required to make a eps movie in lyx
% using the animategraphics package. The call itself looks something like:
% \animategraphics[height=2.8in,autoplay,palindrome,loop]{8}
% {./movie1/fitmovie-1 ...

The default animategraphics operation requires the user to get the mouse over the animation and click.

I have had some success getting \animategraphics to "start" a movie when doing a presentation with only a PgDn or space click, allowing for a single button to advance through slides


\visible <1 ...

Is there a way to have LyX overwrite on export?

Currently, when I export a pdf, 10-30 seconds later I get a modal window with the option warning me that I am about to overwrite. This window is usually buried, as I am not expecting it.

The -f --force-overwrite is only for command line usage, and I ...

So now I realize if I am giving students handouts, maybe they need blank spaces where the notes should be so they can fill it in.

This works with a boolean set in the preamble (shownotes) with the following code:


\ifthenelse{\boolean{shownotes}}{
Stuff to be shown or hidden here!
This will be ...

Thanks a ton for helping me out! I had troubles with the blindtext, but your link to the other thread and some more googling got me fixed. I though I had searched on this adequately, but apparently not.

I am a big idiot. I am using Beamer which defaults to sans for all fonts. I finally found a nice ...

Does anyone else out there use tgif with lyx?

I have been using tgif to generate simple eps vector graphics for years. You can set up tgif to include equation objects in your document.

The objects are real eps objects in tgif (tiff preview). When you click on them, it automatically opens a lyx ...

Is there an easy way to specify sans serif fonts for text in LaTeX and Roman / Times for equations?

Ideally without having to change every equation in a document...

Thanks!

Edit: Solved below.