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I've got a rather long table of contents for my presentation in beamer, and it doesn't fit on one frame. I know I can provide a table of contents per section, or to manually break it between sections into a few frames using \tableofcontents[sections={1-3}] etc., but I was hoping there is a way for LaTeX/beamer to do it automatically for me.

So, in short:

Is it possible to automatically break the table of contents in beamer between frames?

And of course, if yes, how would I go about it?

Martin Tapankov
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  • If your table of contents doesn't fit on one slide, your presentation has too many parts. – Seamus Mar 15 '11 at 16:22
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    @Seamus: Normally I'd agree with you, but I do have a legitimate reason for this: my talk is very long (3 academic hours), and discusses a certain taxonomy of 15-20 concepts in no particular order. So I wanted to use the table of contents as a handy index/navigation as well in the electronic version. – Martin Tapankov Mar 15 '11 at 18:31

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You could try the allowframebreaks option

\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks=<fraction>]
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}

It is for stuff like ToC or references.

See also Explicit frame break with beamer class

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Martin Scharrer
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  • It works in my tests but doesn't look good. You will have to tweak it a little. – Martin Scharrer Mar 15 '11 at 16:15
  • They are right to call it evil. The result is kind of a mess, even with a finite number of <fraction> parameter tweaks. But there doesn't seem any better way to do it, so I'll accept your answer. – Martin Tapankov Mar 16 '11 at 07:41