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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.