added new support for note files and tweaks for better footnotes

slides_template/Makefile

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ all: $(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.tex))
 pdf: all
 
 %.pdf: %.tex
-	#perl -p -e 's/©//' refs.bib > refs-cleaned.bib
-	#recode -d u8..ltex < refs-cleaned.bib > refs-processed.bib
 	mogrify -format pdf figures/logo.svg
 	rubber -fd $<
 	extract-notes $<
@@ -14,8 +12,6 @@ clean:
 	rubber -d --clean *.tex
 	rm -f *.tmp
 	rm -f vc
-	#rm -f refs-cleaned.bib
-	#rm -f refs-processed.bib
 	rm -f figures/logo.pdf
 	rm -f *.pdfpc
 

slides_template/example.tex

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 \documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
 
+% set up the file to create notes in the output PDFs
+\usepackage{pgfpages}
+\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen} % for pdfpc -n right
+% \setbeameroption{show notes} % place notes on the second slide
+% \setbeameroption{show only notes} % for making printouts
+
 \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ugm}
 \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
 
@@ -54,6 +60,11 @@
 % \usepackage{dcolumn}
 % \usepackage{booktabs}
 
+% replace footnotes with symbols instead of numbers
+\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
+\usepackage{perpage}
+\MakePerPage{footnote}
+
 %% BEAMER THEME STUFF
 \usetheme[pageofpages=/,% String used between the current page and the
                          % total page count.