Easy LyX Beamer products

When making presentations in LyX with the Beamer template, one often wants to make three PDFs every time: slides, handouts, and handouts+notes. Here are some scripts to do this. You will need Cygwin installed if you are on Windows.

Command-line version:

	#!/bin/bash
	# Creates three PDFs from a Beamer LyX document.
	# Doesn't assume anything about existing options
	# so makes all docs with new file suffixes.
	#
	# Added to Right-click menu with FileMenu Tools by lopesoft
	# Pass in the filename with extension
	filename=${1%%.*}
	# Get the plain slides version
	cp $filename.lyx $filename-slides.lyx
	# Be careful if no options have been set
	optLines="$(grep -c '\\options' $filename.lyx)"
	if [ $optLines -eq 0 ]
	then
	sed -i 's/\(\\end_preamble\)/\1\n\\options /g' $filename-slides.lyx
	fi
	if [ $optLines -gt 1 ]
	then
	echo "Warning: More than one \\option line. This may not work"
	fi
	# Remove just the relevant options
	sed -i 's/\(\\options .*\)notes=show,*/\1/g' $filename-slides.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\options .*\)handout,*/\1/g' $filename-slides.lyx
	# Make the other versions
	cp $filename-slides.lyx $filename-handout.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\options \)/\1handout,/g' $filename-handout.lyx
	cp $filename-slides.lyx $filename-notes.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\options \)/\1handout,notes=show,/g' $filename-notes.lyx
	# export slides
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-slides.lyx
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-notes.lyx
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-handout.lyx
	# clean up extra files
	rm $filename-handout.lyx $filename-slides.lyx $filename-notes.lyx

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In Windows I've added this functionality to the right-click menu for LyX files. It requires the slightly modified script below. To edit the right-click menu I use the FileMenu Tools utility. In a new entry, set the program as a shell (I've tested git -- "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" and cygwin -- "C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe"). For arguments put "absolute/path/to/beamer_outputs.sh %FILENAME1%".

	#!/bin/bash
	# Creates three PDFs from a Beamer LyX document.
	# Doesn't assume anything about existing options
	# so makes all docs with new file suffixes.
	#
	# Added to Right-click menu with FileMenu Tools by lopesoft
	# Pass in the filename with extension
	filename=${1%%.*}
	# Get the plain slides version
	cp $filename.lyx $filename-slides.lyx
	# Be careful if no options have been set
	optLines="$(grep -c '\\options' $filename.lyx)"
	if [ $optLines -eq 0 ]
	then
	sed -i 's/\(\\\\end_preamble\)/\1\n\\\\options /g' $filename-slides.lyx
	fi
	if [ $optLines -gt 1 ]
	then
	echo "Warning: More than one \\option line. This may not work"
	fi
	# Remove just the relevant options
	sed -i 's/\(\\\\options .*\)notes=show,*/\1/g' $filename-slides.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\\\options .*\)handout,*/\1/g' $filename-slides.lyx
	# Make the other versions
	cp $filename-slides.lyx $filename-handout.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\\\options \)/\1handout,/g' $filename-handout.lyx
	cp $filename-slides.lyx $filename-notes.lyx
	sed -i 's/\(\\\\options \)/\1handout,notes=show,/g' $filename-notes.lyx
	# export slides
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-slides.lyx
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-notes.lyx
	lyx -e pdf2 $filename-handout.lyx
	# clean up extra files
	rm $filename-handout.lyx $filename-slides.lyx $filename-notes.lyx

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