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Presentations using LaTeX

An Introduction to the Beamer Class

Marek Seliger

April 18, 2007

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1 Introduction
Aspects of presentations using a computer
Why using LaTeX to produce a PDF Presentation
First Steps
2 Creation of a Presentation
Basic steps
Structuring slides
3 Advanced
Timings
Alternative Timing
Colors
Overprint
4 Bonus
Grafics
Modi and Themes
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Aspects of presentations using a computer

Why using a computer?

It’s up to date
Get color, incremental display for free
Lecture halls have usually a better beamer than projector
No need to lug slides to conference
Talk can be easily posted and sent to colleagues
Copier slides cost 0.10 EUR each, printer slides 1 EUR each
No drag-and-drop, i.e. everything is reproducible

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Aspects of presentations using a computer

Slides look different through a projector than on a screen

As you have limited space go easy on decorations and navigation.

As the resolution is low, smoothed characters look differently.
In particular be careful with thin lines: A
Colors look different than on a Monitor, depending on the
projector:
LCD Projector (Older Technology, large projectors): Light
colors will not be visible
DLP Projector (Newer, usually very small): Tiny mirrors
produce very bright picture but colors come out darker

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Aspects of presentations using a computer

Projector Trouble

You cannot assume that your laptop will work by default on

projector X.
In particular older projectors may not be able to synchronize to
new laptops.
If possible at all, try out your laptop in advance.
Also know how to change your display settings.
If all fails, have a Plan B:
Have your slides on a memory stick (+USB cable).
PDF is probably the only format any laptop can display
Think about carrying printed slides

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Why using LaTeX to produce a PDF Presentation

Why using LaTeX to produce a PDF Presentation

Why using LaTeX

Standard mathematical typesetting
Reuse already written up material

Why producing a PDF

PDF is highly portable (Portable Document Format)
PDF works on virtually any platform
Full screen display (CTRL-L) with every resolution

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Why using LaTeX to produce a PDF Presentation

What is LaTeX Beamer?

The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a

beamer presentation. It can also be used to create slides. It
behaves similarly to other packages like Prosper, but has the
advantage that it works together directly with pdflatex, but also
with dvips. Text describing the class in this presentation is taken
from their website: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/.

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Why using LaTeX to produce a PDF Presentation

Useful features

The beamer class has several useful features:

You don’t need any external programs to use it other than
pdflatex, but it works also with dvips.
You can easily and intuitively create sophisticated overlays.
Finally, you can easily change the whole slide theme or only
parts of it.

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Advantages

The beamer class has several useful advantages:

You only need a text editor and LaTeX to create a slideshow
You only need a PDF reader to show it
Your presentation is in a light text file (+ media if present)
There are plenty of themes readily available
Big letters = less text = more easy to read / understand

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First Steps

Installation

To use beamer, you need to have three packages installed in your

TEX path:
beamer, xcolor and pgf.
You can find that all at http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/
You install the packages by unpacking them either in the global or
your private TEX tree.
To update a lookup table you need to call texhash after unpacking.
In MiKTEX use the update wizard to install the packages called
latex-beamer, xcolor, and pgf.

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First Steps

Basic steps to use it

Once you have installed the beamer class, the basic steps to create
a beamer presentation are the following:
1 Specify beamer as document class instead of article.
2 Structure your LaTeX text using section and subsection
commands.
3 Place the text of the individual slides inside frame commands.
4 Run pdflatex on the text (or latex and dvips).

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First Steps

References

Till Tantau
Users Guide to the Beamer Class
Version 3.01

http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net

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Basic steps

Creation of a Presentation

Compile with
1 pdflatex file.tex
The PDF-File can be viewed with a viewer of your choice.
Adobe Reader supports transition effects and Full-Screen-modus.

alternative:
1 latex file.tex

2 dvips -o file.ps file.dvi

3 ps2pdf file.ps

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Basic steps

Minimal Template

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Berkeley}

\title{My Presentation}
\author{Myself}
\institute{Here}
\date{January 2006}
\begin{document}
\frame{ \titlepage}

\frame{ BlaBla }

\end{document}
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slide (like this one, without header and footer graphics) by using

\begin{frame}[plain]
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Structuring slides

Block and Example

Fancy Block Title

You can place text (or math, or whatever) in a snazzy colored
block like this just by surrounding with

\begin{block}{Snazzy Block Title}

You can ...
\end{block}

Example
Beamer also offers the example environment

\begin{example}
\end{example}

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Structuring slides

Block and Example

Theorem
2=1
Proof.
−2 = −2
4−6=1−3
4 − 6 + 9/4 = 1 − 3 + 9/4
(2 − 3/2)2 = (1 − 3/2)2
2 − 3/2 = 1 − 3/2
2=1

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Structuring slides

Use of Alert In Beamer

You can emphasize text, like this, using this which is colored red by
default.
Heres An alertblock
Get an emphasized block using

\begin{alertblock}{Alert Block Title}

\end{alertblock}

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Structuring slides

Columns

Smaller Column 1 Bigger Column 2

... ...

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Structuring slides

Columns

Smaller Column 1 Bigger Column 2

... ...

\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{3cm}
\begin{block}{Smaller Column 1} ... \end{block}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{5cm}
\begin{block}{Bigger Column 2} ... \end{block}
\end{column}
\end{columns}

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay
Item Bee

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See
1 Item Won

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See
1 Item Won
2 Item Too

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Timings

Pause, Timings, Etc.

Within practically any LATEX environment, use

\pause

before any command to delay its appearance:

Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See
1 Item Won
2 Item Too
3 Item Tree

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Timings

Pause Source Code

\begin{itemize}
\pause \item Item Aaay
\pause \item Item Bee
\pause \item Item See
\end{itemize}
\begin{enumerate}
\pause \item Item Won
\pause \item Item Too
\pause \item Item Tree
\end{enumerate}

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Alternative Timing

Alternative Timing Specifications With Alert

To highlight the current line
Alternative
Item Aaay

\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Item Aaay
\item Item Bee
\item Item See
\item Item Dee
\end{itemize}
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Alternative Timing

Alternative Timing Specifications With Alert

To highlight the current line
Alternative
Item Aaay
Item Bee

\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Item Aaay
\item Item Bee
\item Item See
\item Item Dee
\end{itemize}
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Alternative Timing

Alternative Timing Specifications With Alert

To highlight the current line
Alternative
Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See

\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Item Aaay
\item Item Bee
\item Item See
\item Item Dee
\end{itemize}
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Alternative Timing

Alternative Timing Specifications With Alert

To highlight the current line
Alternative
Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See
Item Dee

\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Item Aaay
\item Item Bee
\item Item See
\item Item Dee
\end{itemize}
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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Loops With Timings

Notice how we can cycle through items.

Some Algorithm
First instruction
Loop instruction a
Loop instruction b
Loop instruction c

\alert<1>{First instruction} \\
\alert<2,5,8>{Loop instruction $a$} \\
\alert<3,6,9>{Loop instruction $b$} \\
\alert<4,7,10>{Loop instruction $c$} \\

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Alternative Timing

Timings

A Block With Timings

Item Aaay

Item Eee

\item<1-3> Item Aaay

\item<2-4> Item Bee
\item<3-5> Item See
\item<4-> Item Dee
\item<-4> Item Eee
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Alternative Timing

Timings

A Block With Timings

Item Aaay
Item Bee

Item Eee

\item<1-3> Item Aaay

\item<2-4> Item Bee
\item<3-5> Item See
\item<4-> Item Dee
\item<-4> Item Eee
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Alternative Timing

Timings

A Block With Timings

Item Aaay
Item Bee
Item See

Item Eee

\item<1-3> Item Aaay

\item<2-4> Item Bee
\item<3-5> Item See
\item<4-> Item Dee
\item<-4> Item Eee
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Alternative Timing

Timings

A Block With Timings

Item Bee
Item See
Item Dee
Item Eee

\item<1-3> Item Aaay

\item<2-4> Item Bee
\item<3-5> Item See
\item<4-> Item Dee
\item<-4> Item Eee
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Alternative Timing

Timings

A Block With Timings

Item See
Item Dee

\item<1-3> Item Aaay

\item<2-4> Item Bee
\item<3-5> Item See
\item<4-> Item Dee
\item<-4> Item Eee
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Colors

Colors, the Basics

\setbeamercolor{mycolor}{fg=red,bg=blue}
\begin{beamercolorbox}{mycolor}
some text in red on blue background
\end{beamercolorbox}

\setbeamercolor{mycolor2}{fg=blue,bg=green}
\begin{beamercolorbox}{mycolor2}
some text in blue on grey background
\end{beamercolorbox}

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Colors

Colors, the Basics 2

fg=red,bg=white
fg=black,bg=red
fg=yellow,bg=black
fg=red,bg=green
are there even more colors?

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Colors

Colors Advanced

You can create your own colors

fg=red!90!blue,bg=white
fg=red!60!blue,bg=white
fg=red!40!blue,bg=white
fg=red!10!blue,bg=white
the number in between determines the mixture

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Colors

Colors

Political Nonsense
When in the course of human events ...

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Colors

Colors

Political Nonsense
When in the course of human events ...

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Colors

Colors

Political Nonsense
When in the course of human events ...

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Overprint

Overprint

Theorem
Here is a theorem

Proof.
Here is the first (bad) proof, in red.

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Overprint

Overprint

Theorem
Here is a theorem

Proof.
Here is the second (presumably correct) ...

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Overprint

How to do an Overprint

Use something like the following. Notice the onslide timings.

\begin{overprint}
\onslide<1>
\begin{alertblock}{Proof.}
Here is the first (bad) proof, in red.
\end{alertblock}

\onslide<2>
\begin{proof}
Here is the second (presumably correct) ...
\end{proof}
\end{overprint}

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Graphics

Include Graphics (JPG)

Include a jpg-picture

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Graphics

Include Graphics (JPG)

Include a jpg-picture

To include an eps-figure, first convert it to pdf using

Linux: ps2pdf figure.eps figure.pdf
Windows: use AdobeDistiller or print to a pdf-printer
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Graphics

Include Graphics (PDF)

Include a pdf-picture
\includegraphics[width=8cm]{figure.pdf}

0.75
Photon intensity 2p1/2 / 2p3/2

Experiment CDW
0.70
solid
0.65 gas
LTDSE
0.60
0.55 CTMC

0.50
0.45
0 1 2
10 10 10
2
Foil thickness [µg/cm ]

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Modi and Themes

Modi for different Media

Presentation
\mode<presentation>
\mode<presentation>{\usetheme{Berlin}}

Handouts
\mode<handout>
{\beamertemplatesolidbackgroundcolor{black!5}}

Text/Article
\mode<article>{\usepackage{fullpage}}\

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Modi and Themes

Different themes

There are different styles for the beamer class:

\usetheme[compress]{Ilmenau}

You can use a lot of themes already included in Beamer (see in

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/beamertheme*.sty).
Try also: Bergen, Antibes, bars, Berlin, JuanLesPins, Madrid,
PaloAlto, Singapore, beamerthemesplit, and many more.

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Modi and Themes

FIN

Thank you for your attention!

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