Lecture notes with beamer

This post is mainly to promote the Beamerlecture setup created by a guy called Don Eisenstein. You can currently find the details at this address. Or with a quick search for "Beamerlecture".

A quick summary of what he provides:

• A file called BeamerLecture.tex which contains lots of header information for latex files of various different 'document classes'.
• Some scripts for taking a prepared set of lecture note slides (written in beamer) saved as a tex file, but without a documentclass at the top, and creating a variety of different outputs by compiling the file and sequentially appending different document class information and different extra commands.

The output is a variety of different files (pdfs):

• Beamer slides to handout (flattened pages with reveals)
• Beamer slides for the lecture (more pages than the latter)
• Beamer slides for post-lecture (gaps can be filled)
• Beamer slides formatted as an 'article', so no slides, much like normal printed notes with sections, chapters etc..
• Beamer slides for the lecturer with extra notes added

There's also code, which I've changed to fit my Linux installation, for creating 2-upped versions of all of these (I use pdfjam, see the code at the bottom of this post).

Here are the bonus scripts I've added to .bashrc in Linux to have the compilation at my fingertips...