shortsection title in header or footline

[Ignasi]

Hi all,

I would like to use short section or subsection titles in a footline
or headline. I know commands \insertsection
and \insertsubsection but they insert the 'long' title. I've seen in
manual about \insertshortlecture but only for lectures.
There also exist \inserttocsection and \inserttocsubsection but I
don't know how tu use. Could you help me?

Ignasi

[Vedran Miletić]

Does \secname and \subsecname help?

Regards,
Vedran

[Ignasi Furió]

El Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:21:16 +0200, Vedran Miletić <riv...@gmail.com> vau
escriure:

No. Here you have my test.

%------------------------------
\documentclass{beamer}

\newcommand{\footA}{\insertsection --- \insertsubsection}
\newcommand{\footB}{\inserttocsection --- \inserttocsubsection}
\newcommand{\footC}{\secname --- \subsecname}

\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[leftskip=15pt,rightskip=15pt,ht=2.5ex,dp=1ex]{footline}
\hspace*{-15pt}{\usebeamercolor{separation
line}\rule[1ex]{\paperwidth}{1pt}}\\
\usebeamerfont{footline}\footA %-> Change footA with footB or footC
\par
\vspace{2ex}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
}

\begin{document}
\section*{Outline}
\begin{frame}{Outline}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
\section[short section name]{very long section name}
\subsection[short subsection name]{very long subsection name}
\begin{frame}
First frame
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
Second frame
\end{frame}
\end{document}
%------------------------------

with \footB says --

! Undefined control sequence.
\footB ->\inserttocsection
--- \inserttocsubsection
l.16 \begin{document}

with \footC says --

! Undefined control sequence.
\footC ->\secname
--- \subsecname
l.16 \begin{document}

Thank you,

Ignasi

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[Vedran Miletić]

2010/7/26 Ignasi Furió <ignasi...@uib.cat>:

I see. Well, \secname (\subsecname) doesn't get defined yet since you
have no sections (subsections) yet. You can workaround this with:
\def \secname {}
\def \subsecname {}
which will get overwritten when they get defined by Beamer (after the
first section or subsection).

Hope it helps,

--
Vedran Miletić

[Vedran Miletić]

Datuma 28. srpnja 2010. 14:16 Vedran Miletić <riv...@gmail.com> je napisao/la:
> I see. Well, \secname (\subsecname) doesn't get defined yet since you
> have no sections (subsections) yet. You can workaround this with:
> \def \secname {}
> \def \subsecname {}
> which will get overwritten when they get defined by Beamer (after the
> first section or subsection).
>

By the way, this is a bit ugly workaround. I will see what can be done
for Beamer 3.11 to make it work nicer.

Regards,

--
Vedran Miletić

[Axel Berger]

Vedran Miletic wrote:
> By the way, this is a bit ugly workaround.

You can make it slightly less ugly and much less prone to breaking
future changes by using \providecommand instead of \def.

Axel