beamer reference to a page number?

[Neal Becker]

OK, I got it.  If I use <ref> I get the slide number, which is what I
wanted.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 3:04 PM Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, a bit more complicated than I thought.  I really want the cross
> reference to the slide number, which is indicated in the footer.
> When I put \section, I get an un-numbered slide so page numbers and slide
> numbers are not the same.
> Weirdly, I put in 3 labels and 3 cross references to them.  They all look
> the same format (even in the LaTeX code).  For some reason I can't see, 2
> of them did give me a cross reference corresponding to the slide number, as
> I want, but the 3rd gave me what seems to be the page number (which is 4
> greater than the slide number) because I have 4 \sections before this.
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 2:21 PM Paul A. Rubin via lyx-users <
> lyx-users at lists.lyx.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3/30/22 13:56, Neal Becker via lyx-users wrote:
>> > Can I make a reference to a page number in a beamer document?  How?
>> >
>> >
>> When you say "beamer document", do you mean a Beamer slide show or a
>> Beamer article class document?
>>
>> For a slide show, you can put the cursor in either the title or body of
>> the frame to be referenced and use Insert > Label... to insert a label.
>> Then, where the page number should appear, use Insert >
>> Cross-Reference..., pick the label of the target frame, and set the
>> "Reference Format:" box to one of the three options that contains
>> "<page>".
>>
>>
>>
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