[XeTeX] Beamer class, notes and XeLaTeX

[Benjamin Koppe]

Hallo,
I recently thought about switching for my presentations to xelatex,  
too. I want to make a presentation with the beamer class, and I need  
to use it with Xelatex, because most probably I will run into soma  
Hebrew or Greek to use in the slides...

I am having problems with using xelatex and beamer when it comes to  
notes. I want notes to show up on my laptop screen, while the  
projector presents the slides...

It works all fine with LaTeX, I even found an application that is  
capable of taking advantage of this opportunity on my Mac. The problem  
remeins with XeLaTeX.

The file I use:

\TeXXeTstate=1

\documentclass[dvipdfm]{beamer}

%============= XeLaTeX ============================
%\usepackage{fontspec}% provides font selecting commands 			%loaded  
with xltxtra
%\usepackage{xunicode}% provides unicode character macros 			%loaded  
with xltxtra
\usepackage{xltxtra} % provides some fixes/extras 		laut console no  
longer needed und obsolete in texlive 2008
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
\setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Arial}
\newfontfamily{\grk}[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Gentium} % pick a font for  
Greek
\newfontfamily{\heb}[Script=Hebrew]{Ezra SIL} % and one for Hebrew

\newfontfamily{\charis}{Charis SIL}
%================= Ende XeLaTeX ====================


\newcommand{\Alif} {\charis{ʼ}}
\usepackage{ngerman} %Muß nach den XeLaTeX Einstelungen stehen, sonst  
geht nix mehr!



\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=right}

\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty


\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> Eggs
\note<1>{Eggs}
\item<2-> Plants
\note<2>{Eggs and Plants}
\item<3-> Animals
\note<3>{Eggs, Plants and Animals}
\end{itemize}
\note{outside of itemize}
\end{frame}

\note{between two frames}

\begin{frame}
Second frame.
\note{within second frame}
\end{frame}
\note{past second frame, so, in the end.}
\end{document}


Depending of whether I use "show notes on second screen=right" or  
"show notes on second screen=left", I get either only the note-slides  
or the presentation slides in my pdf file. With one exception: The  
first page works okay as long as I use dvipdfm as class option...


I use MacTeX 2008 installed and updated this week, so I should be  
rather up to date with my software. Here comes the log:

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danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german,  
ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish,  
italian, la
tin, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish,  
portuguese, r
omanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish,  
swedish, turki
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I hope I appended all info you need. Thanks in advance
De Benny
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