Creating a begin{frame}[fragile] macro

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This is a follow up to my question in this thread, in response to which @samcarter showed me how to combine <+-> with fragile. In the example below, I've tried to further automate his code by creating a fragileFrame environment which includes both of the above features. (Obviously, in this MWE it doesn't gain me much, but in my actual code, my beamer frames contain a lot of customization, which I don't want to have rewrite every time. However the environment construction throws an error. To verify that it really is the fragile option that's causing the error, I've created a normalFrame environment that is identical except for the fragile option, and compiles without error. Is there a way to get around this?

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[framed]{matlab-prettifier}
\lstnewenvironment{myMPcolor}{%
            \lstset{basicstyle=\color{red}}
           }{}
\newenvironment{fragileFrame}[1]{%
    \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->}
      \begin{frame}[fragile]{#1}
    }{\end{frame}}
\newenvironment{normalFrame}[1]{%
    \beamerdefaultoverlayspecification{<+->}
      \begin{frame}{#1}
    }{\end{frame}}
\begin{document}
\begin{normalFrame}{Title}
\begin{itemize}
    \item first point
    \begin{itemize}
        \item subpoint
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\end{normalFrame}
\begin{fragileFrame}{Title}
\begin{itemize}
    \item first point
    \begin{itemize}
        \item subpoint
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\begin{myMPcolor}
This is a matlab command
\end{myMPcolor}
\end{fragileFrame}
\end{document}

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '18 at 22:43

As said in a comment to your previous question, hiding the frame environment in a new environment is a bad idea - this usually causes more problems than it solves.

However if you really must do it:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage[framed]{matlab-prettifier}
\lstnewenvironment{myMPcolor}{%
            \lstset{basicstyle=\color{red}}
           }{}

\newenvironment{slide}
    {\begin{frame}[fragile,environment=slide]}
    {\end{frame}}

\begin{document}

\begin{slide}
\frametitle{title}
\begin{itemize}
    \item first point
    \begin{itemize}
        \item subpoint
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\begin{myMPcolor}
This is a matlab command
\end{myMPcolor}
\end{slide} 

\end{document}

Cool. Thanks very much. I'll take my chances on hiding frames inside new environments. I've been doing it without problems----until this one---for years. — Leo Simon, Mar 24 '18 at 03:09

Creating a begin{frame}[fragile] macro

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