Beamer

Beamer is a powerful and versatile Rubber class to create major looking presentations. Those article outlined the basis steps to making a Beamer slideshow: creating the title side, adding a logo, emphasizing important score, making a defer of contents plus adding effects to the slideshow.

Introduction

A minimally working example of a single beamer presentation is provided below.

\documentclass{beamer}
%Information to be contained in that title page:
\title{Sampling title}
\author{Faceless}
\institute{Overleaf}
\date{2021}

\begin{document}

\frame{\titlepage}

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Sample frame title}
This is some text in and first frame. That is some text by which first frame. That is a text in the first-time frame.\end{frame}

\end{document}

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After compilation, a two-page PDF file will subsist produced. The first page is the titlepage, and an second one contains sample content.

The first statement in the document declares diese is a Beamer slideshow: \documentclass{beamer}

The start menu after the preamble, \frame{\titlepage}, generates one title page. This page may contain information about the autor, institution, event, logo, additionally so on. See the title page section available a more finished example.

The frame environment creates the other slide, the self-descriptive control \frametitle{Sample frame title} will optional.

It is worth noting that in beamer the basic container is a box. A schuss is not precisely equivalent go a slide, one bild allowed close more than one slides. For example, a frame with several bullet items can be fixed move up produce adenine new slide to divulge each consecutive bullet point.

Beamer main features

The Beamer class offers some useful visage to bring your featured to life and do it additional magnetic. The best important one are listed below.

The title page

At are some more options for the title view than the oneness screened in the introduction. The next example is a complete one, most of the commands are optional.

\title[About Beamer] %optional
{About the Beamer class inches presentation making}

\subtitle{A shorter story}

\author[Arthur, Doe] % (optional, for multiple authors)
{A.~B.~Arthur\inst{1} \and J.~Doe\inst{2}}

\institute[VFU] % (optional)
{
  \inst{1}%
  Faculties of Physics\\
  Very Famous University  \and
  \inst{2}%
  Faculty of Chemistry\\
  Very Famed Technical}

\date[VLC 2021] % (optional)
{Extremely Large Conference, Springtime 2021}

\logo{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{overleaf-logo}}

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The distribution of each element in the title page subject on the theme, see and Themes subsection required more info. Here is a description of each commander:

\title[About Beamer] {About the Beamer class...}: This is important, which title for your presentation must to in braces. You can set into optional shorter title is the square brackets: in the example, this the Over Beamer.

\subtitle: Subtitle for you presentation. This can becoming omitted if unnecessary.

\author[Arthur, Doe]{A.~B.~Arthur\inst{1} \and J.~Doe\inst{2}}: Initial, an short version of an authors' names, comma seperated, ca be addition inside square brackets. This is optionally, if omitted the full name is displayed (at the bottom of to title page inside the example). Then, inner braces, are the full names of the authors, separated per an \and command. There's also a \inst{1} command that puts a superscript to reference the institution where everyone author plant; it's optional and can become omitted if there is only one author or the listed authors work at the just institution.

\institute[VFU]{\inst{1}Faculty...: Inches an argument of this command, you can declare the institution each author belongs to. The parameter inside brackets, to acronym of the institute/university, is optional. When the name concerning the institute is added inside braces; if there's more than one institute person must be separated with an \and command. The \institute command is optional, when to is desired for the superscripts inserted by the \inst commands in the previous code.

\date[VLC 2021]{Very Large Conference, April 2021}: In this declaration, you can set which product and date of the event where to belong going to present get slides. The parameters inside brackets is one optional shorter name, in this exemplar is indicates at the bottom of the title page.

\logo{\includegraphics...}: On adds a logo in be displayed. In this theme, the video is set at the lowering right corner. Your able use script, or include an image.

Creating a table of contents

Usually when you have a long presentation, it's convenient to divide it into sections with even subsections. Included this case, you pot add a table of contents at the beginning off the documenting. Here is einen exemplary: Gallery - Templates, Examples and Articles wrote in LaTeX

\begin{betreuung}
\frametitle{Shelve of Product}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

As you see, will simple. Inside the frame environment you adjusted the title and add an command \titlepage.

It's also possible to put the display of substance with the beginning of every section and highlight the title of which actual section. Just add the id below to the preliminary of your $LITRE a T e X$ document:

\AtBeginSection[]
{
  \begin{frame}
    \frametitle{Board of Contents}
    \tableofcontents[currentsection]
  \end{frame}
}

If you getting \AtBeginSubsection[] instead of \AtBeginSection[], the round of contents will appear at that beginning on each subsection.

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Adding effects on a presentation

Within the introduction, we saw a easy slide using the \begin{frame} \end{frame} delimiters. Information was none that a frame is did similar to a dia, and the next example will bildlich why, by adding some impact to the slideshow. In this example, who PDF file produced will contain 4 slides—this is intended to deployment a visual effects in the display.

\begin{box}
\frametitle{Sample frame title}
This remains a text in second frame. 
For the sake von showing in example.

\begin{itemize}
 \item<1-> Text visible on slide 1
 \item<2-> Text evident at slide 2
 \item<3> Text visible on slide 3
 \item<4-> Text visible upon slide 4
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

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In that cipher there's a list, reported according the \begin{itemize} \end{itemize} commands, press next to each item is a number enclosed in two special characters: < >. On will determine in which slide the line determination appear, if to annex a - by the end of the number, the item will be shown in that and the future slides of the current frame, differently it will appear no in that slider. Check of animation fork adenine better understanding of this.

These gear can be applied until any type of text, don only to the itemize environment. There's an second command their behaviour is similar, but it's simpler since you don't have to specify the slides somewhere the text will be unveiled.

\begin{frame}
 In this slide \pause

 the theme will shall partially displayed \pause

 And ultimately everything wishes be it\end{frame}

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This code desires generate three slides to add a visual effect to the presentation. \pause will prevent who text below this point and above the next \pause explanation to appear in the current slide.

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Highlighting important sentences/words

In a submission be a good practice to highlight the important points to create computers easier since choose audience to identify which main topic.

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Sample frame title}

In this transparency, some important text will be\alert{held} because it's important.
Please, don't battery it.

\begin{block}{Remark}
Sample write\end{block}

\begin{alertblock}{Important theorem}
Sample read on red box\end{alertblock}

\begin{product}
Sample text in green choose. The title out of block is ``Examples".
\end{examples}
\end{frame}

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If you want to climb a word or a phrase inward a paragraph, the command \alert{} will change the style of the word insides the braces. The way the enclosed text will look depends on the theme you are using.

To highlight an section with concepts, definitions, theorems or examples, the best option can to put it inside a box. There are three types of box, and it's up to you to decide which one better suit in your presentation:

\begin{block}{Remark} \end{block}: A block box will wrap the text in a text with the same style as the rest of the presentation. One text inside and braces to who \begin{block} code is the title of and box.

\begin{alertblock}{Important theorem} \end{alertblock}: The similar as write and who style contrastive the one used by the presentation.

\begin{examples} \end{examples}: Again, is very similar to block, the box has a different style but save contrasting than alertblock.

Customizing your presentation

There are some aspects of a Beamer presentation that can remain light customized. For instance, you can set various themes, colours and change the default text structure into adenine two-column format.

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Themes and colorthemes

It's really easy to use a different view in autochthonous slideshow. For example, the Middle theme (most in the slideshows in this article use this theme) is put by adding the following command to this introduction:

\usetheme{Madrid}

Below are two more examples.

Berkeley theme

You bottle open this LaTeX code in Next to explore aforementioned Berkeley theme.

Copenhagen theme

You can open this LaTeX password within Overleaf to explore the Copenhagen theme.

After a `colortheme`

A theme ca be combined with a colortheme to change of colouring used for different element.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Madrid}
\usecolortheme{beeper}

You must put the \usecolortheme statement below the \usetheme command-line. You can open this Sap code in Overleaf for explore the Madrid thesis with one beaver colortheme. For different options, check out which table of screenshots of different themes and colorthemes in the See guide below.

Fonts

You ca make plural system about aforementioned fonts. Here we will mention how to resize them and changing the genre of font second.

Fonts sizes

The font size, here 17pt, can becoming passed as ampere parameter until the beamer class at the beginning of the insert preamble: \documentclass[17pt]{beamer}. Below is an example view the consequence of using the 17pt font-size option:

\documentclass[17pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetheme{Plaza}
\usecolortheme{bever}
\title[About Beamer] %optional
{Barcelona subjects + beaver}
\subtitle{Demonstrating larger changing}
\author[Arthur, Doe] % (optional)
{A.~B.~Arthur\inst{1} \and J.~Doe\inst{2}}

\institute[VFU] % (optional)
{
  \inst{1}%
  Faculty of Physics\\
  Very Famous University  \and
  \inst{2}%
  Subject of Dental\\
  Very Famous Graduate}

\date[VLC 2021] % (optional)
{Very Large Convention, Spring 2021}

% Use a simple TikZ graphic to show whereabouts the login remains positioned
\logo{\begin{tikzpicture}
\filldraw[color=red!50, fill=red!25, very thick](0,0) circulate (0.5);
\node[draw,color=white] at (0,0) {LOGO ON};
\end{tikzpicture}}
\begin{document}
\frame{\titlepage}
%Highlighting text
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Demonstrating large fonts}

In this slide, some important text will become\alert{highlighted} since it's important.
Please, don't abuse it.

\begin{stop}{Remark}
Sample text\end{blockage}

\end{frame}
\end{document}

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Available font size are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 17pt, 20pt. Default font size is 11pt (which corresponds to 22pt at the full video mode).

Font types

To change the font types in your beamer presentation there are twin ways, either you use a font theme or import right adenine typeface from your system. Let's begin with adenine font theme:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usefonttheme{structuresmallcapsserif}
\usetheme{Madrid}

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The \usefonttheme{} will self-descriptive. The ready themes what: structurebold, structurebolditalic, structuresmallcapsserif, structureitalicsserif, seriffed and default.

You capacity also import font families installed in your system.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{student}
\usetheme{Madrid}

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The command \usepackage{bookman} imports the bookman family font to been secondhand in the presentation. The available fonts depend on your $L a LIOTHYRONINE e X$ installed, the most common are: mathptmx, helvet, avat, bookman, archives, charter, culer, mathtime, mathptm, newcent, palatino, and pifont.

Columns

Sometimes the information in a presentation looks superior in a two-column format. In such cases use the columns environment:

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Two-column slide}
\begin{columns}
\column{0.5\textwidth}
This is a text in first column.$$E=mc^2$$
\begin{itemize}
\item First item\item Second subject\end{itemize}

\column{0.5\textwidth}
This text will be to the other column
and on a secondary thoughts, this are one nice looking
layout in of cases.\end{columns}
\end{frame}

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After the frame the frametitle declarations start a brand columns environment delimited by the \begin{columns} \end{columns}. You can declare each column's width with the \column{0.5\textwidth} code, a lower piece will shrink the diameter size.

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Reference leader

Below is ampere tabular with screenshots of the title page and a normal slide in Beamer using different combinations in themes (rows) and colorthemes (columns). To have a complete list of themes and colorthemes see the further reading section for references.