Beamer

Latex presentations with Beamer

Beamer is a LaTeX class for creating slides for presentations. It works together with pdflatex, dvips and LyX. The name is taken from the German word “Beamer”, a pseudo-anglicism for video projector. The Beamer class is not the first LaTeX class for creating presentations, and like many of its predecessors, it has special syntax for defining ‘slides’ (known in Beamer as ‘frames’). Slides can be built up on-screen in stages as if by revealing text that was previously hidden or covered. This is handled with PDF output by creating successive pages that preserve the layout but add new elements, so that advancing to the next page in the PDF file appears to add something to the displayed page, when in fact it has redrawn the page.

Beamer provides the ability to make ‘handouts’, that is a version of the output suitable for printing, without the dynamic features, so that the printed version of a slide shows the final version that will appear during the presentation.

Installation

sudo apt-get install latex-beamer

Best information/guide/examples (last version) CTAN Beamer.

(Latex Beamer Basic Kit). Always have the official Beamer user guide. A good tutorial is plagatux one: See a tutorial at plagatux Intro and Example.

Some tricks: #compilar con PDFLatex (pdflatex), el dvi puede dar errores documentclass[hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer} # Avoid warning # handout mode for print&study your presentation usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

My personal Beamer style is cognitionis.

Useful packages:

\usepackage{ragged2e}         % text justification in presentations

\usepackage{float}        % figue strict placement with H option (overrides h)

Useful tricks:

If you want to introduce verbatim you have to make a “fragile” frame. DEPRECATED

NEW: [containsverbatim]

\begin{frame}[fragile]

…

\begin{verbatim}

aaa

\end{verbatim}