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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 11-4-17 on page 771.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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% Show page(s) 1,3

\documentclass{ttctbeamer}
% graphic converted to gray in book

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Malmoe}
\useoutertheme{sidebar}
\usecolortheme{dove}
\StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Optional increment with alerted text}
  \begin{itemize}[<+->]
    \item This is \alert<.>{important}.
    \item We want to \alert<2->{highlight} not this but \alert<.>{that}.
    \item Where is the \alert<.>{sense}?
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}