Beamer
is a powerful and flexible LaTeX class to create great looking presentations. This article outlines the basis steps to making a Beamer slideshow: creating the title page, adding a logo, highlighting important points, making a table of contents and adding effects to the slideshow.documentclass{beamer}
frame{titlepage}
, generates the title page. This page may contain information about the author, institution, event, logo, and so on. See the title page section for a more complete example.frametitle{Sample frame title}
is optional.title[About Beamer] {About the Beamer class..}
subtitle
author[Author, Doe]{A.~B.~Arthurinst{1} and J.~Doeinst{2}}
and
command. There's also a inst{1}
command that puts a superscript to reference the institution where each author works; it's optional and can be omitted if there is only one author or the listed authors work at the same institution.institute[VFU]{inst{1}Faculty..
and
command. The institute
command is optional, but it is required for the superscripts inserted by the inst
commands in the previous code.date[VLC 2014]{Very Large Conference, 2014}
logo{includegraphics..}
titlepage
.AtBeginSubsection[]
instead of AtBeginSection[]
, the table of contents will appear at the beginning of each subsection.begin{frame} end{frame}
delimiters. It was mentioned that a frame is not equivalent to a slide, and the next example will illustrate why, by adding some effects to the slideshow.begin{itemize} end{itemize}
commands, and next to each item
is a number enclosed in two special characters: < >
. This will determine in which slide the element will appear, if you append a -
at the end of the number, the item will be shown in that and the subsequent slides of the current frame, otherwise it will appear only in that slide. Check the animation for a better understanding of this.pause
will prevent the text below this point and above the next pause
declaration to appear in the current slide.alert{}
will change the style of the word inside the braces. The way the enclosed text will look depends on the theme you are using.begin{block}{Remark} end{block}
begin{block}
code is the title of the box.begin{alertblock}{Important theorem} end{alertblock}
begin{examples} end{examples}
usetheme{Madrid}
Berkeley beamer theme |
Copenhagen beamer theme |
usecolortheme
statement below the usetheme
command.usefonttheme{}
is self-descriptive. The available themes are: structurebold, structurebolditalic, structuresmallcapsserif, structureitalicsserif, serif and default.usepackage{bookman}
imports the bookman family font to be used in the presentation. The available fonts depend on your LaTeX installation, the most common are: mathptmx, helvet, avat, bookman, chancery, charter, culer, mathtime, mathptm, newcent, palatino, pifont and utopia.begin{columns} end{columns}
. You can declare each column's width with the column{0.5textwidth}
code, a lower number will shrink the width size.default | beaver | beetle | seahorse | wolverine |
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default | ||||
AnnArbor | ||||
Antibes | ||||
Bergen | ||||
Berkeley | ||||
Berlin | ||||
Boadilla | ||||
CambridgeUs | ||||
Copenhagen | ||||
Darmstadt | ||||
Goettingen | ||||
PaloAlto | ||||
Szeged | ||||
Warsaw |