General ⇒ beamer | Create Section Page

[deus]

Dear,

I'm creating a beamer presentation and I would like to insert Section pages at the start of each new Section. A section page should be simply a blank page with the name of the Section in the middle of the page.

I tried to use:

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\part{Review of Previous Lecture}
\frame{\partpage}

This basically works great, except that the result is: "Part I: Review of Previous Lecture". I don't want the "Part I" stuff since it is not a Part but a section. According to the beamer manual, it should be possible to use these commands:

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\section{A section}
\frame{\sectionpage}

But unlike the \partpage equivalent, \sectionpage doesn't work and returns an undefined control sequence error. If it helps, I'm using the theme Boadilla.

Any suggestions on how I can create a simple Section page?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The beamer class doesn't define \sectionpage. You could define it yourself using \centering, \insertsection etc. You could do it like in standard LaTeX.

Here's an example in the beamer way:

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\setbeamerfont{section title}{parent=title}
\setbeamercolor{section title}{parent=titlelike}
\defbeamertemplate*{section page}{default}[1][]
{
  \centering
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{section title}
      \usebeamerfont{section title}\insertsection\par
    \end{beamercolorbox}
}
\newcommand*{\sectionpage}{\usebeamertemplate*{section page}}

Stefan

[deus]

Thnx, that works like a charm!

Unfortunately my current LaTeX knowledge is not sufficient to reproduce this myself. I'll have to search for some good literature on LaTeX templates/macro's.

[deus]

Dear,

Last year the above solution worked great, but now I cannot compile this any more. I get the following errors:

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Command \beamer@@tmpop@section page@default already defined
Command \sectionpage already defined. ...onpage} {\usebeamertemplate*{section page}}

What changed? I'm compiling with Kile, using pdflatex

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pdflatex -version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)

[pac]

Hi,
You might have a newer version of Beamer installed now, which does define \sectionpage.