{beamer} is a document class, used for creating presentations and slides. For general questions about presentations or slides, independent of the document class, use {presentations} tag instead.
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Beamer: How to remove shadows under header
I would like to remove the shadow (gradient fading) under the header.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\usecolortheme{dove}
\setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg=white, bg=black}
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beamer, how to explicitly call the “normal itemize icon”
I want to have beamer slides where the change between one slide and the next is that the standard itemize symbol is replaced by a tick or a cross. My first attempt:
\begin{itemize}
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How to change list options during a loop?
I currently have a beamer presentation, which, using the forloop package, looks basically like this:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{forloop}
\begin{document}
\newcounter{ctr}
\newcounter{gulp}
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Export Beamer doc to 2 slides per page
I'm a total LaTeX/beamer newbie looking for a way to export a slide deck I created into a sort of "book" form. I tried "handout" but that didn't seem to be what I'm looking for.
Basically, I want to ...
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votes
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Is there any way to typeset my Beamer presentations on my iPad?
I'm considering buying one of the available LaTeX apps for my iPad. Among other things, one of the main things I'm interested in is tweaking my beamer presentations (particularly handy when on the ...
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Beamer presentation fails to compile after TeX Live upgrade [closed]
After an upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) to 13.04 (Raring), pdfLaTeX fails to compile a simple presentation using Beamer. Besides Beamer, the only package I am explicitly using is minted, for ...
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beamer note spacing issue
I’m having a problem with beamer, where the first paragraph in a note has different spacing from subsequent ones.
MWE:
\AtBeginDocument{\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}}
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Beamer: Vertical alignment of multi-column ToC
In my LaTeX beamer presentation I have a long Table of Contents, which has been split across two columns by using the multicol package. The problem is that I have not found any way to control vertical ...
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How make a picture slideshow
I would like to use beamer class as backbone for my presentation. However, I encountered a problem. My wish is to put pictures on it and for LaTeX to decide their placement and divide them on frames ...
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Auto update a list/section of key points beamer
Is there a way in Beamer to keep a dedicated portion of each slide for "key questions," or "key points" section that automatically accumulates questions or points? Sort of like in the below:
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How to customize title page in beamer so that it looks like
How can I modify title page so that it looks like it is in this video. Please seek to 16 seconds and watch title page. I do not have permission to post images. I liked this theme and I want to make a ...
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How to change the color of \href links… for real
I would like web links generated by the \href command to be colored in my Beamer presentation. Passing the colorlinks option to hyperref leads to navigation links within the PDF receiving (default, ...
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beamer reference list
I am using Beamer with biblatex.
When I used the code below, it produced bibliography which has three slides. But the references in the last slide are in the center rather than top. So the first two ...
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votes
1answer
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Globally setting the separation length for _subitems_ in Beamer
How can I globally change the item separation length for subitems in Beamer? I need a command such as the below, only working.
\setbeamertemplate{itemize/enumerate subbody begin}{\normalsize ...
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votes
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How do I prevent the beamer class from removing my global options
I'm currently writing a latex package (or actually a beamer theme, but apparently that makes no difference) and I want to be able to specify a few things using key-value pairs in the global options.
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Beamer notes “show notes on second screen” option does not work
I want to use the "show notes on second screen" option for beamer. Here's my code (MWE):
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen}
\title{TEXPLORE}
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How to make a \only<> like macro to be used at the end of line and escape it?
I want to produce a tutorial showing code and its rendered output step by step. The requirements are as follows.
The source code should be kept simple.
\LTXexample
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Animating tabular rows in Beamer without showing the table border
I have a tabular environment with three rows, and I would like to show only the first row on my first slide, then show the next row and finally the third row. I have a solution that almost works but ...
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1answer
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Adjusting layout of text/bullets within beamer
This is a rather simple question, but I've been having trouble.
My simplest goal is to be able to easily adjust my frame environment so that its displays like this:
First-line -- I want this BOLD
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Adding a “take away” box to a beamer slide
In Powerpoint presentations (especially with slides produced by consultants), it's common to add a box at the bottom of a slide that indicates the main point.
What would be some LaTeX code for adding ...
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votes
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Fix height of frametitle independent of content
I'm using a custom beamer theme from my university. The frametitle height depends on whether any characters extend below the baseline. A frametitle named "example" is higher than a title named "test". ...
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Two code blocks working syncronously
I need two code blocks in my beamer frame. One will be the code and other will be the output for each line of code.
I want to uncover each code line and corresponding output line.
So, first it will ...
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Beamer: Visualize overlay borders in handout mode
I want to display the slide areas of a frame in handout mode.
A possible solution could look like this:
\begin{frame} % presentation mode
On slide 1 \\
\pause
On slide 2
\end{frame}
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Beamer frame numbering in appendix
I have a beamer presentation in which I have some additional slides in an appendix. The additional slides are only there in case someone asks a specific question; I won't necessarily have to use any ...
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how to make mindmap nodes links within presentation
Wanting to make secondary and tertiary nodes links to other frames within presentation. A great example would be linking the mountain bicycle node to the frame titled "mountain bicycle". The code I ...
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how to make mindmap fit on frame?
I'm in the process of creating a Beamer presentation using some tikz concepts, how do I make a mindmap fit to the slide? My code is as follows:
\documentclass[T]{beamer}
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Is it possible to use the listings package incrementally in beamer?
Given a frame that has code rendered in a \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} environment, is it possible to use beamer's incremental frame building feature to highlight code snippets?
Here is an ...
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Beamer-Generated slides to PPT?
I like creating slides in Beamer. My supervisor doesn't. He wants me to "generate or convert [the set I did for a conference] to PowerPoint." I've tried different online and offline products like ...
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Specify positions for top/bottom in Beamer vertical shading
MWE
\documentclass{beamer}
% Yes, this is a poster, if that matters in the slightest
%\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter}
\mode<presentation>{}
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3
votes
1answer
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How to set vertical margins for beamer frame?
My talk slides use a mostly-white background image (supplied by organizers) that has some visual patterns at the bottom. I would like to tell beamer to not cover these patterns (as it makes text less ...
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Positioning logo in the front page as well as slides
Question 1:
I am creating a slide template for a presentation in LaTex using Beamer package. I found the placement of logo in the slide is not that easy. Instead of placing the logo in the same ...
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beamer header takes too much space [duplicate]
The header with the table of contents takes up too much vertical space and crowds out my slides. I'd like to retain the ToC headers but turn them into two-column displays or something like that, in ...
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votes
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how to have the journal name shown when I cite a paper in beamer?
I am writing a beamer presentation and I would like citations to appear (in the text!) like
[Doe et al., Journal of Latex Greatness, 2007]
Instead if I use only the \cite{} command (together ...
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votes
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Is there an overview of Beamer's slide (page) geometry anywhere?
I find this classic figure of LaTeX's page geometry very helpful:
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_layout.svg
Now, I am fiddling with some beamer slides and I could really use ...
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votes
1answer
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Vertical misalignment due to beamer onslide? [duplicate]
The following MWE displays the problem:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}\onslide<+->
\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}r}
Text\\Text & Text \\\hline
Text\\Text & Text ...
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votes
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How can I set the inner margins of a Beamer block?
I've worked myself into a rut. A very, very hacky, plain-TeX-y rut.
I'm creating a poster with beamerposter. Content is split logically into block environments, and customization is done through ...
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votes
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Avoid height flickering in a block when hiding content with \only [duplicate]
When using a construction like the following, the height of the block changes between frames. This change distracts the audience from the content. How to fix the height of the block, so that it ...
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Problem with sumatra+beamer [closed]
I installed SumatraPDF and followed the instructions in the tutorial to set up a new profile in TeXnicCenter - however for some reason the pdf file is locked and when I try to compile it for the ...
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votes
2answers
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How to add url to footer in Beamer
I'm new to LaTeX and am having trouble adding a url to the footer.
I currently have this:
\documentclass[]{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemebars}
\title{Title}
\author{Author}
...
2
votes
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how to have the journal name shown when I cite a paper in beamer?
I am writing a beamer presentation and I would like citations to appear (in the text!) like "Doe et al., Journal of Latex Greatness, 2007". Instead if I use only the \cite{} command (together with ...
2
votes
1answer
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LaTeX Beamer: How to uncover formulas/text at a location of an “un'uncovered” formula/text
I have a beamer presentation in latex where I want a formula to change its coloring schema over a couple of steps (The idea is to mark the "active" part of the formula at the given moment).
When I ...
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Beamer - Optimal figure size given there is a caption, frametitle, etc
This question is inspired by an almost complete solution. My aim is to have the figure (placed in a figure environment) occupy the maximum place possible given that it has a caption (without ...
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2answers
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Funny stuff in a Beamer title irreparably messes with the PDF metadata
I have the following beamer presentation:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\title{%
\parbox{.25\textwidth}{funny}%
\parbox{.5\textwidth}{Real Title}%
\parbox{.25\textwidth}{stuff}}
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votes
2answers
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Graphical index based on figures? (Beamer)
At the end of my Beamer presentation, I would like a slide that contains thumbnails of all the images presented in my slide. These images would be linked to the slide which they appeared on. ...
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How can I make the title of my BeamerPoster appear on the same page as the actual poster?
Here is a minimal example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0]{beamerposter}
\mode<presentation>{%
\usetheme{Frankfurt}%
}
...
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Hide frame's dot from the slide heading in beamer [duplicate]
Please i want to add some frames to my beamer presentation but without adding a new dot in the frame heading.
There's any method to do that ?
Below is a minimum code example with the theme i am ...
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Novice's question: I don't want other objects' locations to move when I add a circle
TikZ novice, here. I want to create two slides (in Beamer), identical except for the addition of a circle in the second slide. I don't want the addition of the circle to shift about the placement of ...
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Remove shadow from beamer displaybox
I don't like shadows of the displaybox environment of beamer.
I've found this file /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/inner/beamerinnerthemeumbcboxes.sty which contains its declarations
...
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votes
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Why does \centering have no effect in my code?
It seems that when I use the \centering command to center a TikZ picture within a Beamer frame, it only works if there is a blank line between the \end{tikzpicture} and \end{frame}. Can someone ...
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vote
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Height filling minipages in Beamer
I am trying to accurately center things in my Beamer frames with animations. For that purpose, I would like to use minipages with fixed height, which should be automatically inferred so that I do not ...
