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I want to create a series of related graphs, for instance, higlighting the traversal through a graph. It works nice using overlays in beamer frames.

Can I do analogous things in a normal document? Of course not an "overlay", but side-by-side pictures where the first gives the only<1>-part of the figure as shown in the presentation, the second the only<2>-part etc.

Martin

Martin Steffen
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  • Nope. The beamer class defines the primitives for incremental presentations. –  Sep 08 '12 at 08:32
  • ok. I guess I need to hack it myself. I had thought that it would be a natural enough wish that either tikz had a way to do that, or that someone had a package. I guess one need to mimick the ``counting mechanism'' (\beamer@slideinframe) and the <"slide number spec">-syntax. Maybe I look into it. – Martin Steffen Sep 08 '12 at 11:01
  • If the pages are otherwise empty, one might probably do something like that with background and xifthen. – Tom Bombadil Sep 08 '12 at 13:41

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probably like this?

Code

\documentclass[parskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[margin=15mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{xifthen}

\newcommand{\layerpic}[2]% layers, commands
{   \foreach \x in {1,...,#1}
    {   \begin{tikzpicture}
            \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\i}{\x+1}
            #2
        \end{tikzpicture}\\[1cm]
    }
}

\newcommand{\mylayer}[2]% layer, layer commands
{   \ifthenelse{\i>#1}
        {#2}
        {}
}

\begin{document}

\layerpic{4}
{   \mylayer{1}
    {   \fill[green!50!gray] (0,0) rectangle (12,4);    
    }
    \mylayer{2}
    {   \fill[red!50!gray] (6,2) ellipse (5.5 and 1.5);
    }   
    \mylayer{3}
    {   \fill[blue!50!gray] (1,1) circle (0.5);
        \fill[blue!50!gray] (11,1) circle (0.5);
        \fill[blue!50!gray] (1,3) circle (0.5);
        \fill[blue!50!gray] (11,3) circle (0.5);
    }
    \mylayer{4}
    {   \fill[yellow!50!gray] (3,0.1) --  (6,3.9) -- (9,0.1) -- cycle;
    }
}

\end{document}

Result

enter image description here

Edit 1: Here's a command that will act differently in beamer and non-beamer documents:

Code

\makeatletter
\@ifclassloaded{beamer}
  {\xdef\isbeamer{1}}
  {\xdef\isbeamer{0}}%
\makeatother

\newcommand{\layerpic}[2]% layers, commands
{ \ifthenelse{\isbeamer=1}
    {   \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.5]
            #2
        \end{tikzpicture}
    }
    {   \foreach \x in {1,...,#1}
    {   \begin{tikzpicture}
        \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\i}{\x+1}
        #2
        \end{tikzpicture}\\[1cm]
    }
  }  
}

\newcommand{\mylayer}[2]% layer, layer commands
{ \ifthenelse{\isbeamer=1} 
    {   \only<#1->{#2}
    }
    {   \ifthenelse{\i>#1}
    {#2}
    {}
  }    
}

Output

In a non-beamer document (e.g. scrartcl), the output is exactly the same as before. In beamer however (the tikzpicture is scaled to 0.5 in beamer mode, as slides are only 128mm wide):

enter image description here

Tom Bombadil
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  • thanks, sort of. What I still need to figure out is: the figures inside the slides and in the document should be shared, i.e., use the same syntax so that I use the "overlay"-pictures in the presentation, but for the handout, the different stages are printed side by side, showing how the graph evolves. – Martin Steffen Sep 15 '12 at 06:42
  • So you want the macro to be aware if it is in a beamer or e.g. article documentclass and then use either the beamer overlays or the article steps? And if yes, do you need more complicated expressions like <1,2-4,7-> (because this would be kind of tricky, I think)? – Tom Bombadil Sep 17 '12 at 09:35