Text Formatting ⇒ beamer | Deemphasizing Text

[latexhelp1]

I have a slide in Beamer for which I'd like to have part of it deemphasized. By deemphasized, I mean make the text appear lighter in color, perhaps gray, perhaps as a shadow.

For example, see p. 22 in the PDF of the following:
https://sites.google.com/site/tarekalex ... ssan/files
(File "BurchardiHassan2010_Slides.pdf")

Below if my current code. I'd like all of the text demphasized EXCEPT for the lines

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\textbf{1. Framework}
\begin{itemize}
\item Clarification 1
\item Clarification 2
\end{itemize}

Here is the full code. I pray that it is a minimum working example. I'm also attaching the .pdf.

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\documentclass[professionalfont]{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\useoutertheme{miniframes}

\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty

\begin{document}

\addtocounter{framenumber}{-1}
\section*{}
\frame
{
\frametitle{Outline of Presentation}
\textbf{1. Framework}
\begin{itemize}
\item Clarification 1
\item Clarification 2
\end{itemize}

\vspace{0.5cm}
2. Section 2

\vspace{0.5cm}
3. Section 3

\vspace{0.5cm}
4. Section 4

\vspace{0.5cm}
5. Section 5
}

\section{Section 1}
\subsection{}

\end{document}

I'd like to have Sections 2 - 5 deemphasized.

I very much appreciate any help you can provide.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

You could simply use a gray text color. I recommend defining a macro in the preamble for that, since that can easily be changed consistently for the document:

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\newcommand{\light}[1]{\textcolor{gray}{#1}}

Later in the slides:

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\light{2. Section 2}

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However, I would use \tableofcontents, or list such as with enumerate, instead of manual numbering.

Stefan

[latexhelp1]

Stefan,

Thank you so much! This looks great. Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly and for taking the time to help me. I am glad that you could understand my Beamer code and my question.

Is this gray that you are creating same gray that would appear if I were to use the tableofcontents?

You could simply use a gray text color. I recommend defining a macro in the preamble for that, since that can easily be changed consistently for the document:

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\newcommand{\light}[1]{\textcolor{gray}{#1}}

Later in the slides:

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\light{2. Section 2}

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I didn't want to use tableofcontents because the contents that I'd like to appear on the slide are longer in length than I could comfortably fit in the row with the Section titles and the bubbles. Also, the subsection would appear throughout the presentatoin, and I'd only want it to appear on this manual table of content slides.

However, I would use \tableofcontents,

What does this mean:

or list such as with enumerate, instead of manual numbering.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I mean something like

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\begin{enumerate}
  \item A section
  \item Another section
  \item Again a section
\end{enumerate}

can be at least a bit better than manual numbering. Though it would use the enumerate label style of your beamer theme.

And, normally, I would use \label and \ref for automatically cross-referencing to section numbers, just for the case their order would change. But that's not easily possible in a beamer presentation.

Stefan

[latexhelp1]

Thank you Stefan! That all makes sense!

I mean something like

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\begin{enumerate}
  \item A section
  \item Another section
  \item Again a section
\end{enumerate}

can be at least a bit better than manual numbering. Though it would use the enumerate label style of your beamer theme.

And, normally, I would use \label and \ref for automatically cross-referencing to section numbers, just for the case their order would change. But that's not easily possible in a beamer presentation.

Stefan

May I still please follow up on the following? Do you know if the light macro and the gray that you are setting is the same as if you had used

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\tableofcontents

You could simply use a gray text color. I recommend defining a macro in the preamble for that, since that can easily be changed consistently for the document:

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\newcommand{\light}[1]{\textcolor{gray}{#1}}

Later in the slides:

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\light{2. Section 2}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I guess it's different, and it depends on the theme. As you make it manually, you can ignore it.

Stefan

[latexhelp1]

Thank you Stefan. Perhaps I'm not being clear. My apologies for all of the back and forth. I really appreciate your continued help.

I would like to set the color/demphasis to manually look like the effects of

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\tableofcontents

For my themes, I use

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\documentclass[professionalfont]{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

I guess it's different, and it depends on the theme. As you make it manually, you can ignore it.

Stefan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I would like to set the color/demphasis to manually look like the effects of \tableofcontents

I just don't see what effects you mean:

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\documentclass[professionalfont]{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usetheme{Warsaw}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\begin{document}
\frame{\tableofcontents}
\section{Section 1}
\subsection{Subsection 1}\frame{\mbox{}}
\section{Section 2}
\subsection{Subsection 1}\frame{\mbox{}}
\section{Section 3}
\subsection{Subsection 1}\frame{\mbox{}}
\end{document}

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Stefan