Document Classes ⇒ Frame numbers in Beamer, Dresden theme

[midan]

Hi,
I am using Beamer's Dresden for my presentation. I have two questions related to this theme:
1. This theme has a footline with two lines: top one with the authors' names and the bottom one with the title of the presentation. I would like to add the frame number and total number of frames (format m/n) flush right in the title line. (m is the current frame, n total) Tried many things, all failed
2. The head and foot lines have two colored lines each with various texts in white. On the title frame, I would like to remove the white text and just keep the colored lines. If I use the [plain] option I loose also those colored lines. Suggestions?
Thanks a lot,
MI

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Midan,

welcome to the board!
You could use another theme that supports the display of frame numbers inside the foot line, like Boadilla, Madrid, AnnArbor, CambridgeUS, Pittsburgh or Rochester. If you really want to use the Dresden theme for your presentation I could show you a hack by redefining \insertshorttitle.

Concerning this and your other question it would be useful if you provide a minimal working example. Without a piece of working code readers could answer in the abstract or may be forced to create a compilable example by themselves following your description. I know beamer and the Dresden theme but don't like to post untested code, and instead of creating test examples by myself I'm looking at other forum posts containing concrete code in the meanwhile.

Stefan

[midan]

Hello Stefan and thanks for the prompt reply.

1. I wouldn't mind redefining \insertshorttitle.

2. Here is a peace of code (trivial is it can be):

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\documentclass[t]{beamer}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usetheme[compress]{Dresden}
\usefonttheme{professionalfonts}
\title{Example of using Beamer}
\author{John Smith Jr.}
\institute{UCLA}
\date{Honolulu, Hawaii, August 21, 2008}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  % this is where I want to get rid of the while text in the head and foot lines
  % The option [plain] doesn't do the job
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\section[Intro]{Introduction}
\subsection[]{}
\begin{frame}
Just some text
\end{frame}

\end{document}

The questions remain as before.
Thanks,
MI

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Midan,

good code example, so I could test my idea and it works:

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\expandafter\def\expandafter\insertshorttitle\expandafter{%
  \insertshorttitle\hfill\insertframenumber\,/\,\inserttotalframenumber}

I've used the TeX primitive \expandafter, without that it could be a bit longer.

Concerning the other question I suggest a quick workaround. Here it's already late at night, even though there might be a more appropriate solution I don't have time to search. Try this, temporarily deactivating those text producing commands:

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\begingroup
\renewcommand*\insertshorttitle{}
\renewcommand*\insertshortauthor{}
\renewcommand*\insertshortinstitute{}
\renewcommand*\dohead{\rule{0em}{1.5em}}
\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}
\endgroup

After \endgroup those commands will work like before.

Stefan

[midan]

Stefan,
Thank you SO much. All works as expected. You don't have to bother finding a cleaner solution for the second issue. I am not that particular about saving a few lined of code.
By the way, for the second issue, I changed the 1.5em to 1.45em - fits better. I tried to get the exact height by looking at the head definition in beamerouterthememiniframes.sty, where it uses something like (line 104 of v1.8):

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\vskip2pt\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}\vskip2pt

but I couldn't figure out how hight \insertnavigation really is.
Anyway, this is plenty good for me. Thanks again,
MI