General ⇒ Include only selected slides using beamer

[EdGatzke]

Any ideas on how to efficiently allow for selecting out marked slides from a beamer presentation?

I know you can manually select out pages a variety of ways. Ideally, I could put something like
\includethispage={true}
on each page I would want automatically pulled out later, then change a flag in the preamble to only export the special pages if I want when compiling the document, otherwise export all pages?

I would rather not have to mess around with the style file, but that may be the only way to do it...

Thanks!

[EdGatzke]

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:

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\ifthenelse{\boolean{shownotes}}{
Stuff to be shown or hidden here! 
This will be shown in the presentation but not the handouts!
}{\vspace{-.4 in}\center{\tiny{Space for Notes Below}}}

I tried to make this into two new commands, \starthide and \stophide so it would look like:

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\starthide
Stuff to be shown or hidden here! 
This will be shown in the presentation but not the handouts!
\stophide

but \newcommand seems not happy with unmatched { inside the command.

Maybe I am doing it wrong still?

[frabjous]

Beamer has built in mechanisms for this. E.g. a frame beginning with:

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\begin{frame}<handout:0>

will be shown in the presentation but not the handout. There are also mode specifications, e.g.:

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\mode<handout>

Stuff only on the handout goes here.

\mode<presentation>

Stuff only in presentation...

\mode<all>

Back to both...

See chapter 21 of the beamer user's guide.