note beamer

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

BeamerThe LATEXalternative to PowerPoint

Anonymous

March 18, 2011

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Advantages

Enjoy all the benefits of LATEX

Mathematical typesetting is neater, e.g.

Pn(x) =n∑

j=0

Lj(x)yj , with Lj(xk) =

{1 if k = j ,0 otherwise.

Formulae can be copied directly from a written report.

Generates a PDF-document, which can be viewed under anyoperating system.

No surprises next time you open the file on another computer.

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Advantages

Enjoy all the benefits of LATEX

Mathematical typesetting is neater, e.g.

Pn(x) =n∑

j=0

Lj(x)yj , with Lj(xk) =

{1 if k = j ,0 otherwise.

Formulae can be copied directly from a written report.

Generates a PDF-document, which can be viewed under anyoperating system.

No surprises next time you open the file on another computer.

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Advantages

Enjoy all the benefits of LATEX

Mathematical typesetting is neater, e.g.

Pn(x) =n∑

j=0

Lj(x)yj , with Lj(xk) =

{1 if k = j ,0 otherwise.

Formulae can be copied directly from a written report.

Generates a PDF-document, which can be viewed under anyoperating system.

No surprises next time you open the file on another computer.

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Advantages

Enjoy all the benefits of LATEX

Mathematical typesetting is neater, e.g.

Pn(x) =n∑

j=0

Lj(x)yj , with Lj(xk) =

{1 if k = j ,0 otherwise.

Formulae can be copied directly from a written report.

Generates a PDF-document, which can be viewed under anyoperating system.

No surprises next time you open the file on another computer.

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Advantages

Enjoy all the benefits of LATEX

Mathematical typesetting is neater, e.g.

Pn(x) =n∑

j=0

Lj(x)yj , with Lj(xk) =

{1 if k = j ,0 otherwise.

Formulae can be copied directly from a written report.

Generates a PDF-document, which can be viewed under anyoperating system.

No surprises next time you open the file on another computer.

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Why Beamer?

Disadvantages

Not as “point-and-click” as PowerPoint.

Need to know the basics of LATEX.

Downloading of packages needs a little effort and patience(but Beamer’s packages are fairly standard nowadays).

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Basic Programming

Normal LATEXdocument:\documentclass{book}

\title{...}\author{...}\date{...}

\begin{document}\maketitle

\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}

Beamer-LATEXdocument:\documentclass{beamer}\mode<presentation>\usepackage{graphicx}\title{...}\author{...}\institute{...}\date{...}\begin{document}\begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame}

\begin{frame}\frametitle {Outline}\tableofcontents

\end{frame}\section{Introduction}\begin{frame}

\frametitle{...}...\end{frame}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Methods of revealing

You can create overlays . . .

Using the pause command:

First item.Second item.

. . . just like that!

You can create overlays \ldots

\begin{itemize}

\item Using the \emph{pause} command: \pause

\begin{itemize}

\item First item. \pause

\item Second item.

\end{itemize}

\pause

\item \ldots just like that!

\end{itemize}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Methods of revealing

You can create overlays . . .

Using the pause command:

First item.Second item.

. . . just like that!

You can create overlays \ldots

\begin{itemize}

\item Using the \emph{pause} command: \pause

\begin{itemize}

\item First item. \pause

\item Second item.

\end{itemize}

\pause

\item \ldots just like that!

\end{itemize}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Methods of revealing

You can create overlays . . .

Using the pause command:

First item.Second item.

. . . just like that!

You can create overlays \ldots

\begin{itemize}

\item Using the \emph{pause} command: \pause

\begin{itemize}

\item First item. \pause

\item Second item.

\end{itemize}

\pause

\item \ldots just like that!

\end{itemize}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Methods of revealing

You can create overlays . . .

Using the pause command:

First item.Second item.

. . . just like that!

You can create overlays \ldots

\begin{itemize}

\item Using the \emph{pause} command: \pause

\begin{itemize}

\item First item. \pause

\item Second item.

\end{itemize}

\pause

\item \ldots just like that!

\end{itemize}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Methods of revealing

You can create overlays . . .

Using the pause command:

First item.Second item.

. . . just like that!

You can create overlays \ldots

\begin{itemize}

\item Using the \emph{pause} command: \pause

\begin{itemize}

\item First item. \pause

\item Second item.

\end{itemize}

\pause

\item \ldots just like that!

\end{itemize}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Adding pictures

Pictures are included in the normal ways:

\begin{center}

\includegraphics[height=45mm]{fractal.jpg}

\end{center}

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

You need to compile your slides.tex file to get a slides.pdf file.Graphics type Compiling methodpng; jpg; pdf slides.tex −→ slides.pdfeps; ps slides.tex −→ slides.ps −→ slides.pdf

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Practical matters: downloading

You will need to download three packages:

1 beamer ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/

2 xcolor ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/

3 pgf ftp://ftp.sun.ac.a/CTAN/graphics/

Or all of them (an many more!) at http://www.ctan.org[ CTAN = Comprehensive TEXArchive Network ]

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Practical matters: downloading

You will need to download three packages:

1 beamer ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/

2 xcolor ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/

3 pgf ftp://ftp.sun.ac.a/CTAN/graphics/

Or all of them (an many more!) at http://www.ctan.org[ CTAN = Comprehensive TEXArchive Network ]

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Changing the settings

Presentation themes named af-ter cities (except 2)

Bergen, Madrid, AanAr-bor, CambridgeUS, Pitts-burgh, Copenhagen, Han-nover, . . .

Color themes named after flyinganimals

albatross, crane, fly, dove,seagull, . . .

Inner Themes, Outer Themes, . . .

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

Outline

1 Why Beamer?AdvantagesDisadvantages

2 Basic ProgrammingThe basics

3 Practical MattersCompilingDownloading

4 Playing with Settings

5 Summary

Why Beamer? Basic Programming Practical Matters Playing with Settings Summary

The beamer-package allows you to have all the interactivityyou need, and

displays mathematical formulae neatly and legibily.