END-OF-FRAME, once again..

[Virgil Arrington]

> From: UD K<mailto:ehud.kaplan at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 6:39 AM
> To: lyx-users at lists.lyx.org<mailto:lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>
> Subject: Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

> Since I am the one who started this END-OF-FRAME discussion because of
> my inability to do the simplest thing (adding a frame/slide where I
> wanted it), perhaps I should make my problem clearer than I managed to
> do initially.  Depending on where the cursor is in an existing
> presentation document, some commands are not shown in the menus, and
> some keyboard combinations are disabled or do nothing. Since I don''t
> use Lyx/Beamer often, I am hazy about what will work when the cursor is
> somewhere at the end of an existing frame, where I THINK it should be
> ready for a new frame or a frame terminator. If there was a way to force
> a frame terminator at the end of a frame, where it should not mess
> things up, it would make the occasional user less confused and frustrated.
>     I can't help but think, still, that this issue suggests that
> something pretty basic is wrong, if one of the most elementary
> operations is problematic.  Lyx's code is opaque to me, so I cannot make
> any useful suggestions, but perhaps, if the designers of the Beamer
> interface tried to understand the casual user's difficulties, some
> simplification could result, and everyone would be a little happier.

Like you, I was constantly frustrated by the seeming difficulty of inserting an end-of-frame marker to the end of a slide. I didn’t find it intuitive at all. However, after much use, it has now become second nature.

What I seemed to discover is that the secret (if that’s the right word) is to place the cursor at the bottom of the current frame in an *unnested* and content-free environment and then hit <enter>. It seems to work best if the unnested, empty environment is “standard,” but it also works for me if the environment is “itemize,” which it often is in my Beamer presentations. As I love keystroke combinations, after composing the last bullet point of a slide (“frame” in Beamer-speak), I hit <enter> to obtain an empty environment. I then hit <shift><tab> as many times as necessary to remove any nesting. I then hit <enter> and, voila, an end-of-frame marker appears.

Virgil



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