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@@ -4449,26 +4449,30 @@ the [Beamer User's Guide] may also be used: `allowdisplaybreaks`,
`allowframebreaks`, `b`, `c`, `t`, `environment`, `label`, `plain`,
`shrink`, `standout`, `noframenumbering`.
-Background in reveal.js
------------------------
+Background in reveal.js and beamer
+----------------------------------
-Background images can be added to self-contained reveal.js slideshows.
+Background images can be added to self-contained reveal.js slideshows and
+to beamer slideshows.
-For the same image on every slide, use the reveal.js configuration
-option `parallaxBackgroundImage` either in the YAML metadata block
-or as a command-line variable. You can also set
-`parallaxBackgroundHorizontal` and `parallaxBackgroundVertical` the same
-way and must also set `parallaxBackgroundSize` to have your values
-take effect.
+For the same image on every slide, use the configuration
+option `background-image` either in the YAML metadata block
+or as a command-line variable. (There are no other options in
+beamer and the rest of this section concerns reveal.js slideshows.)
-To set an image for a particular slide, add
+For reveal.js, you can instead use the reveal.js-native option
+`parallaxBackgroundImage`. You can also set `parallaxBackgroundHorizontal`
+and `parallaxBackgroundVertical` the same way and must also set
+`parallaxBackgroundSize` to have your values take effect.
+
+To set an image for a particular reveal.js slide, add
`{data-background-image="/path/to/image"}`
to the first slide-level header on the slide (which may even be empty).
In reveal.js's overview mode, the parallaxBackgroundImage will show up
only on the first slide.
-Other background settings also work on individual slides, including
+Other reveal.js background settings also work on individual slides, including
`data-background-size`, `data-background-repeat`, `data-background-color`,
`data-transition`, and `data-transition-speed`.
@@ -4476,7 +4480,7 @@ See the [reveal.js
documentation](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#slide-backgrounds)
for more details.
-For example:
+For example in reveal.js:
```
---