List of all equations in the entire document

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I am trying to put all the equations of my presentation made with Beamer into a single table to summarize them. They are however in various frames within \align environments. How can I achieve this?

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score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 03 '17 at 15:44

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You can use the collect* environment from the collect package; a simple example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{collect}

\definecollection{equations}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{A frame with an equation}
\begin{collect*}{equations}{}{}{}{}
\begin{align*}
a &= b \\
&=c.  
\end{align*}
\end{collect*}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Another frame with an equation}
\begin{collect*}{equations}{}{}{}{}
\begin{align*}
x &= y \\
&=z.  
\end{align*}
\end{collect*}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{List of Equations}
\includecollection{equations}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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edited Jun 03 '17 at 15:44

Moriambar

11,466

answered Nov 28 '12 at 15:46

Gonzalo Medina

505,128

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Will this work for numbered equations in an align environment as well? – user17947 Nov 28 '12 at 15:57
1

@user17947 some work will have to be done for the correct display of the counters. – Gonzalo Medina Nov 28 '12 at 16:03
\notag \vskip -1.5em? – user17947 Nov 28 '12 at 16:35
@user17947 so you want to suppress the numbering in the final list? – Gonzalo Medina Nov 28 '12 at 17:01
no. I would like to retain it. There is a problem with allowframebreaks option when I include the collection as a list of equations in the end inside the last frame. The equations are not visible. – user17947 Nov 28 '12 at 18:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 15 '17 at 09:46

Here's a solution that borrows from Write content of box to a file

I've used the etoolbox to wrap the align and equation environment with

% surround the align environment with
%   \begin{lrbox}{\mybox}
%       \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
% 
%       CONTENT
%       
%       \end{minipage}
%   \end{lrbox}

which saves the content to the box \mybox; the content is of course outputted to the screen, but it is also saved for use later on in the box \savedeqns

screenshot

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

% to store the contents of a SINGLE equation
\newsavebox{\mybox}

% to store the contents of ALL of the equations
\newbox\savedqns
\setbox\savedqns\vbox{}

% surround the align environment with
%   \begin{lrbox}{\mybox}
%       \begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
% 
%       CONTENT
%       
%       \end{minipage}
%   \end{lrbox}
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{align}{\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}}
\AfterEndEnvironment{align}{%
        \end{minipage}%
        \end{lrbox}%
        \vspace{\abovedisplayskip}%
        \noindent\usebox{\mybox}%
       % save the equations for later
         \global\setbox\savedqns\vbox{%
           \unvbox\savedqns
             \bigskip
               \filbreak
                 \noindent\usebox{\mybox}}%
        }

% do the same for the equation environment
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{equation}{\begin{lrbox}{\mybox}\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}}
\AfterEndEnvironment{equation}{%
        \end{minipage}%
        \end{lrbox}%
        \vspace{\abovedisplayskip}%
        \noindent\usebox{\mybox}%
       % save the equations for later
         \global\setbox\savedqns\vbox{%
           \unvbox\savedqns
             \bigskip
               \filbreak
                 \noindent\usebox{\mybox}}%
        }


\begin{document}

\begin{frame}{An align environment...}
\begin{align}
  y&=x^2+2\\
  &=2+x^2
\end{align}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{An equation environment...}
\begin{equation}
  y=mx+b
\end{equation}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{My very important equations- SUMMARY}
\unvbox\savedqns
\end{frame}
\end{document}

List of all equations in the entire document

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