Customizing navigation in Beamer

[John Harrold]

Howdy,

I'm using Beamer to create a presentation, and I'm currently using the
Darmstadt theme. I'm quite happy with this layout with one exception.
For each section there is a set of circles indicating the subsection
and progression through each subsection. If I only have a few slides
this looks fine. However I'm pushing 90 slides and I'll probably top
off at over 150, so this line of circles is getting crowded and going
off the page. So here is my question can I either eliminate this line
of little circles or have it only display the progression through the
current subsection (and left aligned instead of appearing under the
current section)?

[pluton]

If I remember well, this is controlled by the mini frame option. (page
64 of http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf).

you can either:
1 - make sure that your 150 slides are real slides. Maybe you can
merge some of them through animations.
2 - use the compress option \documentclass[compress]{beamer}
3 - remove the navigation bar by having a look at the theme code and
by commenting something like \insertnavigation{......}

[John Harrold]

On May 10, 10:12 am, pluton <plutones...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I remember well, this is controlled by the mini frame option. (page

> 64 ofhttp://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beame...).

>
> you can either:
> 1 - make sure that your 150 slides are real slides. Maybe you can
> merge some of them through animations.
> 2 - use the compress option  \documentclass[compress]{beamer}
> 3 - remove the navigation bar by having a look at the theme code and
> by commenting something like \insertnavigation{......}

Yeah these are slides for a shortcourse, and the presentation is going
to be large. I had already tried the compress option to no avail.
Option 3 turned out to be the easiest method. I edited the outer theme
style for for smooth bars:

themes/outer/beamerouterthemesmoothbars.sty

Replaced this line:
\insertnavigation{\paperwidth}

With this one:
\insertsectionnavigationhorizontal{\textwidth}{\hskip.1cm}{\hskip.1cm}

The result is much cleaner (in my opinion at least).

[Giacomo Boffi]

John Harrold <john.m....@gmail.com> writes:

> Yeah these are slides for a shortcourse, and the presentation is going
> to be large.

if you could subdivide your course in \part's, beamer should be able
to limit the navigational TOC to the current "part"

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