Document Classes ⇒ Beamer, Frame Numbers without total number of pages

[mclaine]

Hi everybody,

I'm just working on my phd thesis presentation and wanted to add page (frame) numbers to my presentation.

I used \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number] which destroys my original footline, but this is exactly what I wanted. However, it prints the frame number in the format "frame numer/total number of frames". Is there any way to omit the total number of frames. I want it to be in this format: "frame number".

See my total settings below.

Best regards,

Christian

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\documentclass{beamer}

\mode<presentation> {
  \usetheme{Ilmenau}%
  \usecolortheme{beaver}
  \usefonttheme{professionalfonts}
  \useinnertheme{circles}
  \useoutertheme{split}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=black}
  \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
  \setbeamercovered{transparent}
  \definecolor{rudi}{rgb}{0.71,0.02,0.03}  \definecolor{ocker}{rgb}{0.59,0.42,0.04}
  \setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=rudi}
  \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]
\setbeamercolor*{section in head/foot}{fg=rudi,bg=white}
%\setbeamercolor*{subsection in head/foot}{fg=rudi,bg=black}
\setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=rudi}
}

[gmedina]

Hi,

replace this line

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\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]

with, for example,

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\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
  \raisebox{5pt}{\makebox[\paperwidth]{\hfill\makebox[10pt]{\scriptsize\insertframenumber}}}}

Of course, make the necessary adjustments to suit your needs.

[mclaine]

Thanks a lot!

It works. You are my personal hero for today

Best regards,

Christian

[mclaine]

Lol,

well now I have one additional question.

Is there any way not to count several frames?

In a first-best world, I'd like the counting to begin after the titlepage and there are some slides which contain no important (but necessary!) information, e.g.:

\begin{frame}
\vskip1.6cm \begin{center}{\huge Model}\end{center}
\end{frame}

Does anybody know if there is something that works like \begin{equation*} here?

Best regards,

Christian

[gmedina]

Hi,

perhaps there's a shorter way of doing whay you expect. Anyway, the code below shows one possibility. I defined two commands: \numbered and \unnumbered

Simply add \numbered at the beginning of your document.

For those frames for which you want to suppress the numbering, use something like the following:

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{\unnumbered
\begin{frame}
... frame contents...
\end{frame}
}

If you want to change the numbering sequence, my example also shows how to proceed, changing the framenumber counter.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{Ilmenau}%

\newcommand\numbered{\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
  \raisebox{5pt}{\makebox[\paperwidth]{%
    \hfill\makebox[10pt]{%
      \scriptsize\insertframenumber}}}}}
\newcommand\unnumbered{\setbeamertemplate{footline}{}}

\begin{document}	
\numbered

\begin{frame}
 Test frame 1
\end{frame}

{\unnumbered\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}
\begin{frame}
 Test frame 2
\end{frame}}

\begin{frame}
 Test frame 3
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
 Test frame 4
\end{frame}

\end{document}

[mclaine]

You are a genius!

This works perfect and I am ashamed I did not come up with this idea myself.

Thanks a lot.

[mclaine]

A short additional (final) remark:

I slightly changed your new commands to

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\newcommand\numbered{\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
  \raisebox{5pt}{\makebox[\paperwidth]{%
    \hfill\makebox[10pt]{%
      \scriptsize\insertframenumber}}}}}

\newcommand\unnumbered{\setbeamertemplate{footline}{}\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}}

which allows to be a little shorter for the particular frames:

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{\unnumbered
\begin{frame}
  text
\end{frame}}

Additionally, I also wanted to add a command that allows to assign the same frame number to one or more consecutive slides. This works with:

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\newcommand\numberedplusone{\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
  \raisebox{5pt}{\makebox[\paperwidth]{%
    \hfill\makebox[10pt]{%
      \scriptsize\insertframenumber}}}}\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}}

and

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{\numberedplusone
\begin{frame}
  text
\end{frame}}

respectively.