Support for beamer notes: show both notes, next slide and current slide!

[WohthaN]

Hello,

the --notes=position feature is absolutely great! ...but it would be nice if the space under the next slide could be used to display the current slide as well, so one will not have to turn back to the projector to actually be able to read the content of the current slide... sometimes the notes alone may not be enough for the presenter.

Thanks! Sam

[makoshark]

Let me completely agree that the notes mode is really fantastic and fixes the one major issue I had with pdfpc. Really great.

I think this is a good idea. And alternative might be a keybinding to switch the "main" view between the notes slide and the current slide.

[davvil]

We had some small discussion when including the notes code about this. The biggest fear being that the screen becomes too cluttered. I will do some experimentation in a separate branch and have a look how best to organize all the views.

[makoshark]

I think maybe we're talking about slightly different things. My suggestion is that when you're running in --notes mode, you can use the space currently used for the text notes. I understand why this might be sort of unexpected behavior but the reality is that very few people are going to want to use both the pdfpc text notes and the notes slides. I went ahead and switched all of my old pdfpc notes into beamer notes when this features was added.

Anyway, by removing another major element, I think there might be much more room.

[WohthaN]

I don't think cluttering to be a major issue. IMHO, a good option would be to have a big view of the notes, (say, left-half of the screen), current slide and next slide on the right half one on top of each other. This should leave enough of space to have a bar at the bottom displaying current time/remaining time, prerendering status and slide number.

A key binding to switch to the notes and back could be an alternative, but could be quite difficult to use while presenting.

Thanks for you support, anyway!

[stefanct]

i agree with @makoshark: please replace the pdfpc notes with the beamer notes if enabled. as mako noted it does not make sense to display both - beamer and pdfpc notes - concurrently. if there is really a need for having both, maybe using the beamer notes as background and rendering the pdfpc notes on top of them only if there are actually pdfpc notes for the active slide would be a way to support both things in one presentation (although not concurrently on the same slide). i tried to tinker a bit with the code, but could not get it to work the way i wanted. :/

[cebe]

Hi! Haven't seen that you are already working on notes support until now. Wanted to have notes from latex in pdfpc so I created a latex package that allows writing notes to a .pdfpc file today. If you are interested, checkout code on github: https://github.com/cebe/pdfpc-latex-notes Resulted from a Question I created on stackoverflow: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/119191/extract-all-note-tags-from-beamer-as-a-simple-text-file

[5irius]

First of all, thanks for adding this feature, this made pdfpc to my favourite presentation tool :)

For me it would be quite enough to have instead of the next slide the current slide, when using the notes mode.

[jmoraleda]

You can use a notes page template that shows the slide (slightly shriked) with the notes below it.. This works well if your notes aren't too long. Try inserting the following in your document preamble:

% Show notes page with slide plus note \setbeamertemplate{note page} { \insertslideintonotes{0.8} \rule{\textwidth}{0.1pt} \color{blue} \tiny \insertnote }