Transparency does not work correctly with alignment?

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Read chapter 23.4 of the beamer guide ("23.4 Uncovering Tagged Formulas Piecewise").

Notice: this is not an RTFM answer, this is easy to miss.

Edit: as egreg noticed, the above "answer" does not actually answer the question...

Now this is ugly, but works:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercovered{transparent}

\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \begin{gather*}
      \uncover<1->{a = b \wedge b = c \\}
      \uncover<2->{\mathrlap{\Rightarrow a = c}\hphantom{a = b \wedge b = c}\\}
  \end{gather*}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

(It does at the expense of manually specifying the longest line, and doing it twice. A hackery, non-LaTeX-style, ugly "solution", but hey, the pdf looks good.)

Also, one could imagine semi-automating it to something like this:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercovered{transparent}

\usepackage{mathtools}

\newlength{\longestalignlinelength}
\newsavebox{\longestlinebox}
\newcommand{\longest}[1]{\sbox{\longestlinebox}{$\displaystyle #1$}\longestalignlinelength=\wd\longestlinebox}
\newcommand{\putline}[1]{\mathrlap{#1}\hspace{\longestalignlinelength}}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \longest{a = b \wedge b = c}
  \begin{gather*}
    \uncover<1->{\putline{a = b \wedge b = c}\\}
    \uncover<2->{\putline{\Rightarrow a = c}\\}
  \end{gather*}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Still not very elegant, but a bit better.

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  • Dave
    Dave over 1 year

    I would like to uncover a set of equations line by line with and the covered equations should be transparent. The problem occurs when I want to align those equations: somehow the transparency stops at the &-sign.

    I attached a minimum working example of the problem, where you can see that only the arrow is transparent instead of the whole line.

    I've read the beamer User's Guide but I couldn't find any detailed information about the \uncover-command and known complications, but maybe somebody here is able to help me.

    I appreciate any help.

    \documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
    \mode<presentation>
    \usetheme{Boadilla}
    \setbeamercovered{transparent}
    
    \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{lmodern,amsfonts,amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
    
    \title{Dummy-Titel}
    \subtitle{Dummy-Untertitel}
    \author{Autor}
    
    \date{\today}
    
    \begin{document}
    
    \begin{frame}
        \begin{align*}
            \uncover<1->{& a = b \wedge b = c \\}
            \uncover<2->{\Rightarrow & a = c \\}
        \end{align*}
    \end{frame}
    
    \end{document}
    
    • Werner
      Werner almost 12 years
      Welcome to TeX.sx! It's not necessary to sign your questions (as there is already a box with your username below it) or to begin them with a greeting.
    • Dave
      Dave almost 12 years
      I know, it's not necessary, but I'm accostumed to greet when I start new thread and I regard it as polite.
    • Werner
      Werner almost 12 years
      That's fine too, but this Q&A is accustomed to be question-specific. As such, many users with the edit privilege will remove these greetings and signatures.
  • egreg
    egreg almost 12 years
    The manual says precisely to do what Dave is doing; but it doesn't work with transparent, while it does with invisible.
  • mbork
    mbork almost 12 years
    Ooops, sorry, then.
  • mbork
    mbork almost 12 years
    I've put something closer to an answer now.
  • Dave
    Dave almost 12 years
    Thanks for the manual and automatic solutions. Works great.
  • mbork
    mbork almost 12 years
    You're welcome:). Notice that this will only work if all the "equations" are to be aligned left; if you want to align them at the equals sign or something like that, you'd have to modify this solution accordingly.