Part X, of a presentation

[thegaryking]

There's a need sometimes in a long presentation to have a whole slide that signals a new part is coming. so you want to use completely different heuristics for this kind of thing rather than say just the slide title. with the present setup, I've tried \begin{frame}\begin{block}{\Huge 4. Probability Theory} \end{block} which isn't terrible, but it is a bit of a hack. (For another example, see Matt's slide 3 here: http://www.mattblackwell.org/files/teaching/s05-matching-handout.pdf). Can we put something in that has a nicer design and also is more intentional rather than a hack?

[izahn]

I think this is pretty well covered in section 10 of the beamer user guide, no?

[thegaryking]

yes, good point; we can do \part{Review of Previous Lecture}\frame{\partpage} but can we style that page? i think we can use some of the branding from the first page or perhaps just color the whole thing orange with words in black, or something? it is a place where some styling would be useful to convey a break in the flow of the presentation

[izahn]

I personally think the default is pretty good. Note that you can add whatever you want to the partpage, e.g., \frame{\partpage\tableofcontents}.

That said, If someone mocks up something we like I'm happy to implement it.

[thegaryking]

let's give this to Mike too on design.

[izahn]

Somehow we decided on orange background with white text for this, implemented in https://github.com/izahn/iqss-beamer-theme/commit/d72fd4457b1e8b52ad080143dfed6ba10511dd70