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Mikerada6
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Beamer Handout

Post by Mikerada6 »

I would like to create a handout of my beamer document for my class. However I would like it to have keywords blanked out forcing the students to fill it in for themselves. Is it possible to do such?

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frabjous
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Beamer Handout

Post by frabjous »

It would help to have more specific information about what you want to do, including a minimal working example. At the moment, the best I could suggest would be to define the same command differently for the different modes. That, is consider this code:

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\documentclass{beamer}

\newcommand{\mykeyword}[1]{\alert{#1}}

\mode<handout> {
   \renewcommand{\mykeyword}[1]{\underline{\phantom{#1}}} 
}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}

The capital of Russia is \mykeyword{Moscow}.

\end{frame}

\end{document}

That will generate something like this:
pres.png
pres.png (2.92 KiB) Viewed 2695 times
However, if you change the first line to \documentclass[handout]{beamer} and process the handout, instead you'll get:
handout.png
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But I don't know whether that suits your needs or not.
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