{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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Thumbnails of other frames in beamer
I would like to make a presentation with beamer, and have a few frames (at the start or the end) containing thumbnails of the other frames, hyperlinked to them, with something like 4x3 or 5x4 ...
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Scaling tikz mindmaps within a beamer frame
I recently discovered tikz and I fell in love with it! However, I am having some annoying issues when I try to include a tikz mindmap in beamer. Problem is that I can't manage to have the mindmap ...
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Stable vertical alignment of columns in Beamer
In Beamer, I often use a two-column slide layout, picture on the left and text on the right. Sometimes the same picture is used on multiple slides, with the text on the right changing. I use the ...
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Definite Integral Animation Examples
Does anyone know where I can find a template that will show Riemann sums converging to the definite integral, dynamically for a beamer presentation?
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How to add background only to title frame and an other only to the last frame?
I just want to add a background only in the beamer title page. I can add it in the .tex as follows:
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{
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Custom beamer blocks
I want to be able to define custom block environments in beamer.
That is, where for now I use alertblock and exampleblock I would rather use problock and conblock for a pro/con discussion.
This just ...
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Does enumitem conflict with beamer for lists?
I am using the enumitem package in a beamer presentation.
When I added a usepackage directive for it, the bullets in front of itemize lists disappeared.
I tried restoring them by using
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Highlighting line ranges in a lstlisting: partial solution, but expansion issues
In my quest for a better solution for How to change appearance of a particular line when using \lstincludelisting, I came across the linebackground= option Martin Scharrer added to the listings ...
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Zooming images out to specific locations in beamer
I want to:
Show an image full width
On click, make a small sized image placed at a particular location starting from top left and show another image full width
Repeat the process till all four ...
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Explicit frame break with beamer class
I am looking for a way to insert explicit frame breaks. I'd like to use the built-in frame title continuation feature. The only way I have found is to play with different values of the ...
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Positioning content at the top of a beamer slide (by default)
When I create beamer frame, the content is centred in the slide. How do I make the content move to the top of the slide by default?
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Change bullet style / formatting in Beamer
I like the Boadilla layout for Beamer presentations, but I find its enumerate bullet points illegible, as illustrated below (from the Beamer Theme Matrix).
How can I change the formatting of the ...
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shrinking tables for presentations
What is the most convenient way to shrink a table to fit in a beamer slide?
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How can I get multiple lines of frame dots in beamer navigation?
I'm writing a presentation using the Darmstadt theme which uses the smoothbars outer theme which is itself just a mild variation of miniframes.
In a couple of my sections, I have so many frames that ...
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\pause in tikzpicture breaks footline
I've discovered that you can \pause within a tikzpicture, which works well until I switched the theme to one with a footline.
I've created a "test case" that illustrates the problem.
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reference overlay numbers with names
I have two-column slides where there is a tikz figure on the left, and itemization on the right. There is >10 overlays due to pauses in the itemization, and some pieces of the tikz picture are ...
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Messy flowchart using tikz
I have a beamer slide:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\tikzstyle{decision} = [diamond, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=4.5em, text badly centered, node ...
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Changing color and header of beamer with CambridgeUS
How to change the red color for
- the titles
- the topics
How to adjust the position of the header1 and 2?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
% Set Color ==============================
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How to use the exact same file for handout and presentation modes in beamer
I want to use the exact same file for my beamer presentation and handout. I do not like the need to comment out lines in order to create the handout or presentation (my current solution), nor do I ...
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Beamer bibliography color
I'm using the Boadilla theme with Beaver colortheme.
All the colored stuff are in dark red as they should be, except for the bibliography item: they still use the structure color that is the ...
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Beamer: double uncover hides instead of watermarks
When I make a presentation with nested enumerations where each enumeration needs to be animated, the inner enumeration is completely hidden from the slide until its parent becomes visible, while the ...
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Figuring out RGB or HEX color from xcolor
I have defined a color using:
\definecolor{canvascolor}{rgb}{0.643,0.690,0.843}
Then this is used with this command like canvascolor!75!white from xcolor. This is actually done in the beamer theme ...
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LaTeX Beamer: Frame outside sections?
At the end of a Beamer presentation, I want a "Thank you for your attention"-slide that is not part of the sections in my presentation. More specifically, I want no section in the navigation bar to be ...
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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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How to make a title page with beamer without navigation bar, using theme warsaw
Using beamer, how to make a title page without a navigation bar, using the theme "warsaw" or how to get a title page from another theme, but maintaining the navigation bar on the other frames?
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tikzpicture in Beamer: how to uncover nodes in foreach statement
How can I uncover the nodes in the following tikzpicture? I want to display all red nodes, followed by all green nodes, and then followed by all blue nodes.
\tikzstyle{level 1}=[sibling angle=120]
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Only 3 items in navigation bar, is that possible?
I saw a beamer presentation that shows only 3 items in navigation bar (the last one, the current -highlighted- and the next). How is that possible?
I am using Warsaw theme, and I have (until now) 7 ...
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Scaling a tikzpicture for a Beamer slide
I have the following Beamer slide:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\tikzstyle{decision} = [diamond, draw, fill=blue!20, text width=4.5em, text badly ...
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beamer: frame without decorations, with custom margin
I use \begin{frame}[plain] to have a frame without decorations. The content (inside columns environment) seems to horizontally still respecting the old margins (with Warsaw, gap on the left), although ...
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Equation numbering problems in AMSMath environments with \pause
I'm writing a beamer presentation, and trying (unsuccessfully) to use \pause to step through a numbered array of equations, with the equations appearing in turn, and the corresponding numbers ...
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Changing default width of blocks in beamer
I use a custom Beamer theme for my presentations. In my presentations I'd like to use blocks (\begin{block}…\end{block}). These blocks are rendered slightly too wide to fit into my theme. Is there a ...
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Beamer slides and tufte-handout
I have been experimenting with a setup for slides and handouts with one main.tex file that is \input{} into a "slides" and a "handout" file (as described in the beamer user guide 21.2.1, or this ...
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Automatic frame titles and subtitles
Is there a way to automatically use the section name as the frame title and the subsection name as the frame subtitle?
I think this question is related, but when I tried to hack that solution to ...
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beamer blocks in ordinary article-style document
Is there a way to emulate beamer blocks, e.g., alert/example, in
ordinary pdflatex in article documents? Is there a pure tikz way of
doing this?
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Beamer - Source code highlighting/annotation tips
How can I highlight and annotate source code in a beamer presentation like this one? For example, consider the following image from that .pdf file:
It looks to me that above presentation is made ...
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4 images on a frame appearing each a a time - fine tuning beamer
I have a figure which consists of 4 plots, Full figure here, and I want to have them appearing one by-one in the presentation (from left to right, top to bottom). I managed to do this by including ...
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Run a shell script from a PDF generated by LaTeX
I have a shell script (which should open some program/file) which I want to invoke by clicking on a link in the generated .pdf file (in my case a beamer presentation).
I tried including:
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Hyperref problems in Beamer when using notes
Update and MWE added
I'm working with Beamer for the first time, and I want to use notes pages to prompt myself. However, when I turn them on, either by using either \documentclass[notes]{beamer} or ...
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Insert graphs and text side by side
I wanna know how can I draw graphs and arrows with text, side by side in Beamer as shown in the figure of this question
Drawing arrows in beamer
Can someone post the code?
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Beamerposter scale parameter, text font size and title font size
I want to create a poster with beamerposter with pagesize 240cm (width) x 120cm (height) with two columns.
Will the following line of code produce what I need?
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Using LaTeX to draw time series graphs and histograms
I have some graphs I drew in maple, some simple line plots and histograms. Now I'd like to redraw these graphs in LaTeX, so I can do fancy stuff in beamer like have one histogram appear, and then ...
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Too much space at the top of a beamer block when using multilined math environment
I would like to place two math lines in a beamer block, as two separately
centered lines.
I know that I could do this using two distinct equation environments, but it would be nicer to use a single ...
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Can we use a single frame to create the following effect?
I want to create a slide to show how the clipping works as shown in the following animation.
I used two frames, the last frame is needed because I want to hide the unwanted (trimmed) parts of ...
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Sub-enumeration with the same font size in beamer
I have a beamer slide with a several recursive sub-enumerations, e.g.:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Do A
\begin{enumerate}
\item Have B
\item Load C
\item Backup D
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Split beamer notes across multiple notes pages
I've only recently discovered the notes mode for beamer, and I'm trying to build a presentation with notes containing my speech. However, my speech is quite large, and is causing note page overflows.
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Best way to give sources of images used in a beamer presentation
What's the best style to cite the sources of images in beamer presentation. How to do it?
Since this question may not have a "best answer" I suggest to make it community wiki.
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On using beamer's colors in a Tikz picture
For once, my question is short and simple:
How do I use a beamer defined color in a tikz picture.
For instance, as beamer's documentation states, using beamer's colors is done as follows:
This text ...
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Dealing with long description environment items
I have quite a lot of description environments in Beamer that are having both long and short items, leading to an output like
veryverylongitem description 1
shortitem description 2
which is not ...
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Length between nested lists in beamer
How do I adjust the length between nested lists? For example, in the following, I would like to adjust the distance where it states "distance here"
\begin{itemize}
\item one
%% distance here
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Non-repository management of TeXLive packages on Ubuntu
I am looking to update my version of beamer to 3.10 (which supports nonstandard slide aspect ratios), however the Ubuntu main repository only has version 3.07. I was not able to locate tlmgr. Is there ...
