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Beamer (LaTeX)

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An "article" version is also available, rendered on standard sized paper (like A4 or letter), with frame titles used as paragraph titles, no special slide layout/colors, keeping the sectioning. This version is suitable for lecture notes or for having a single source file for an article and the slides
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Beamer provides the ability to make "handouts", which 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. For actually putting more than one frame on the paper, the
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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 merely redrawn the page.
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Source code for Beamer presentations, like any other LaTeX file, can be created using any text editor, but there is specific support for Beamer syntax in
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file, making it highly portable and worry-free, in the sense that a given presentation will always look the same no matter the machine it is opened on.
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The layout, the colors, and the fonts used in a presentation can easily be changed globally, while preserving control over the most minute detail.
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classes such as article or book. This makes it easy to create presentations out of lecture notes or lecture notes out of presentations.
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document class for creating presentation slides, with a wide range of templates and a set of features for making slideshow effects.
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Slides can be built up on-screen in stages as if by revealing text that was previously hidden or covered. This is handled with
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The list of features supported by Beamer is quite long. The most important features, according to the user guide are:
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A special style file allows for the use of the LaTeX source of a presentation directly in other
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Beamer by Example from PracTEX Journal, many examples of both TeX source and formatted output
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beamerposter – a Beamer extension for scientific conference posters in DIN-A0 size or bigger
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Using beamer.cls: "An intentionally incomplete guide" from LaTeX for Logicians
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class for creating presentations, and like many of its predecessors (such as
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wiki2beamer: Tool to create Beamer presentations from a wiki-like syntax
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Beamer supports syntax of other LaTeX presentation packages, including
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BeamerikZ - A Latex class for creating TikZ based Beamer presentations
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A presentation using the LaTeX Beamer class (short guide – samples)
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Beamer Presentations: A 5-Part Tutorial for Beginners (Overleaf)
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Dual Screen Presentations with the LaTeX Beamer Class under X
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The appearance of presentations can be modified using themes.
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Beamer can be used with pdfLaTeX, LaTeX+dvips, LuaLaTeX and
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Till, Tantau; Wright, Joseph; Vedran, Miletić (2016).
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Introduction to Beamer – How to make a presentation
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Overlays and dynamic effects can be easily created.
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