{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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Conditional compilation of beamer slides
I'm preparing a beamer slideshow, and I will have to print slides.
I would rather use landscape mode slides, but it is possible that I need to use portrait mode ones. Sadly, I won't know until a few ...
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How can I distribute beamer overlayareas in handout mode across multiple frames?
I have a beamer frame with an overlayarea environment. Inside that environment are some bits marked \only<n> so that they appear on consecutive slides.
\begin{frame}
\begin{theorem}
...
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Simple Beamer Template for Total Beginners
Is there a template that allows me to create slides with only some simple formulas at most?
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Beamer: increase radius of circle in TOC and include subsection bullet
I am trying to increase the radius of the circle in the TOC of a beamer presentation and include a subsection bullet. The beamer manual states gives an example of \setbeamertemplate{some beamer ...
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A button that runs an external program from a Beamer PDF presentation
I want to add a "run demo" button to a Beamer presentation (PDF file) that will launch an external Java application. Can this be done somehow - Embed an "exec" command inside a PDF using ...
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Missing footer on first Beamer slide of TikZ example
I'm having problems with this particular TikZ example:
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/prims-algorithm/
When I change the theme, for instance:
\usetheme{Madrid}
the footer is not working on ...
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\pause messes up the page layout
I'm having a frame in beamer which compiles just right when I do not use pauses (\pause). However, when I pause the different list items, the last items do not appear on the frame anymore (actually, ...
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LaTeX, qtree: Color and Animation for branches of a graph tree
I'm trying to do a beamer animation of a parse of a simple binary branching tree. I'd like to either use different colored branches and node labels to code the different steps of the parser and/or ...
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Place bibliography items at bottom of frame
Is there an easy way to add bibliography items to the bottom of a frame where they are referenced?
I am using Beamer and Biblatex.
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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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How to make partially transparent beamercolorbox
In my poster, I added a background picture and make the blocks partially transparent, using the following code
\documentclass[final, 12pt]{beamer}
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Run macro before each slide in beamer
Following on from this question, is there an easy way to call a macro before each slide? So that question answers how to get at each frame, but I want finer control...
I want a macro that sets a ...
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How to prevent beamer from removing the tab alignment of lstlisting?
I want to show my C# code snippet on the presentation slides using beamer.
Because the code is long, I set the frame to be breakable using the frame option allowframebreaks. The code now can be shown ...
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beamer's fragile frame as default
Is there a way to specify fragile mode as default for all frames? Now I know how to define a fragile frame: \begin{frame}[fragile].
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List of Figures + Beamer?
I want to have a List of Figures in my Beamer presentation.
I spent some time searching the web for a solution and only found desperate people telling others that it's not possible, i.e. here or here ...
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Beamer: content in box register does not survive \end{frame}
Consider the following example (I edited the example to include LaTeX lrbox environment):
\documentclass{beamer}
\newsavebox\mybox
\newsavebox\myboxb
\begin{document}
\frame{
\sbox\mybox{Hello ...
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What are alternatives to block?
I use \begin{block} ... \end{block} to describe formalization of some notions, and I want to write some examples under it. I still would like to stick to the structure of a block (one part for title ...
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beamer & TikZ: gradually unveil trees
Imagine a simple tree:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node {Selbstregulation}
[edge from parent fork down]
child {node {Kognition}}
child {node {Metakognition}
child {node {Planung}}
...
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Changing color and bullets in Beamer's table of contents
Does anyone know how to change the color scheme and/or bullets used in Beamer's table of contents (without changing the overall structure color or theme)? Unfortunately, the following doesn't work:
...
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Can I make siunitx commands use serif fonts like the rest of the math in beamer?
In a beamer presentation I can use \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} to typeset the math in a serif font while the rest of the presentation is in a sans-serif font. But the \SI command from siunitx ...
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Beamer - transition effect
I am looking for a particular transition effect when moving between slides.
I would like to have the impression that two slides are superimposed and that the first moves smoothly to the right to ...
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How can I stop \footcite from hijacking my beamer columns?
I have prepared a beamer presentation for a seminar. I already have presented, but in trying to change traditionally-cited references (with a number superscript and the reference typesetted at the end ...
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How to tell if the current section is defined in Beamer?
I am customising the footer of my Beamer slides. The footer displays the title of the slides, followed by a ":", and then the current section title. This works fine if the current section is defined. ...
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Can XeLaTeX | LuaTeX import movies ?
It seems that XeLaTeX cannot handle movies. I imported movies into PDF produced with pdflatex compiler using the multimedia package that comes with beamer. My search over various boards revealed that ...
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How do automatic overlay specification work in beamer?
I've tried reading the excellent Beamer user guide, but failed to understand.
I understand the basic idea: there's a counter beamerpauses that is advanced by a + inside an overlay specification. You ...
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Tikzpicture from LaTeX document does not compile in Beamer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unknown error using tikz matrix of nodes in beamer
I have the following tikzpicture environment from my TeX document but I cannot make it work in Beamer. I get the ...
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Problem with TikZ, beamer and verbatim
I'm trying to put verbatim text inside a node (in a beamer frame):
\begin{frame}[fragile]{P}
\tikzstyle{cell} = [rectangle, draw, thin , fill=black!10 , minimum size=5mm]
\begin{tikzpicture}[node ...
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Run a macro before the start of each frame/slide?
I have a macro that I want to run just before every new beamer frame. I could just a define myframe environment that runs the macro then starts a standard frame, but I'd rather do it differently if I ...
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How to edit Beamer theme CambridgeUS
I have been using the beamer document class with the theme- cambridgeUS in lyx. The following code is the preamble. Now, I want to insert a hyperlink to a pdf file in all the pages by adding them in ...
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How do I fit java style source code in one frame in beamer?
\frame
{
\frametitle{Queue}
\begin{enumerate}
\item monitor
\item semaphores
\item blocking at
\end{enumerate}
}
How do I fit a piece of source code, which this ...
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Block with out title space in a specific position and certain length (for Title box in a poster)
I am working on a poster. As I need to draw a block in a specific position, I do that using varblock. All of this causes a banner at the top of my title block (see the picture). Is that possible to ...
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error with bold font in section title with beamer
I am getting errors when compiling a LaTeX document with the beamer (v3.13) class when using bold shape in a title section:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\section{The \textbf{Section} ...
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Problematic interaction between fontspec and beamer?
There seems to be some problem in the way fontspec passes font info to beamer. The following example compiles and displays as it it should in XeLaTeX
% !Mode:: "TeX:UTF-8"
\documentclass{article}
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How to use beamer colors in beamerarticle?
I would like to use beamer defined colors into beamerarticle's version of my document. This way I can change beamer theme (or color theme) and colors change according it.
Here you have a MWE. A frame ...
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Beamer: vertically center picture inside overlayarea
Is there an easy way to vertically center a picture inside an overlayarea environment?
Here is a MWE of a small animation:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
...
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Beamer crashes with babel Turkish package
I just started to learn beamer and noticed that the problem in \usepackage[turkish]{babel} and \includegraphics inconcistency question applies for beamer and \shorthandoff{=} solution does not work. ...
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Referencing items while using uncover
I am writing a presentation (using beamer) for a seminar and I just faced a problem I can't handle.
On one slide, I have a big equation and then use an uncover-list to explain all the elements in ...
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Embedding a WMV file in a beamer presentation under Mac OS X
In brief, I have created a beamer presentation that contains an embedded WMV file. Acrobat Reader, however, does not recognise the format of the file under Mac OS, and refuses to play it under ...
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Using [pdf]{pstricks} with beamer doesn't work, but auto-pst-pdf does, why?
\documentclass{beamer}
%\usepackage{pstricks,auto-pst-pdf} % works
\usepackage[pdf]{pstricks}
\usepackage{pst-tree}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Test}
\begin{postscript}
...
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\pause won't generate extra slides in a containsverbatim frame
It seems that the [containsverbatim] option when applied to a frame prevents beamer from generating intermediate slides if text animation is wanted in it. Only the first step of the animation is ...
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Scaling a pst-3dplot to fit a Beamer frame
I'm new to pstricks. I was looking for an automatic way of resizing a plot.
I'm trying to fit a 3d plot, generated using pst-3dplot, into a beamer frame. However, I'm not able to make it look good ...
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making a box in beamer — adding labels diagonally
I would like to add a label that is diagonal to the following box, underneath the n', such that it is horizontally just below the box. Basically, I would like to "subtract" the difference between the ...
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Hightlight an XML code beamer
To hightlight an XML code I have refer to XML syntax highlighting, so I write:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{gray}{rgb}{0.4,0.4,0.4}
...
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Modify the contents in a single slide in beamer class [closed]
I have an outline frame with a sidebar (which is a background canvas). Only for this slide I want to move the contents to right side.
For example the current Outline page is as follows:
- Section ...
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Are there any repositories of “killer slides” for Beamer?
I used to work as a consultant and have been spoiled with nice looking slides. For instance, being able to create slides that have 2, 3, or 4 graphs (perfectly positioned and with nice headers!) at ...
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printing beamer slides
I want to print handouts of a beamer presentation. I am using psnup to a create a copy with multiple slides per pages. I notice that there is a lot of empty space on the top of each slide and the ...
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Typing and editing Beamer presentations
The ratio of markup to content in a beamer presentation is fairly high relative to a standard LaTeX document. What strategies do you use for speeding up the task of typing and editing beamer ...
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Beamer reflections with pgf/tikz
I want some nice reflections in my slides. Something like the ones seen in Jobs Keynotes.
Suppose you have multiple elements in the tikz picture and you want to reflect the whole thing with fading.
...
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Speed up beamer compile time
Is there a way to speed up the compile time? I have a, I would say, medium-sized presentation and it takes 10+ seconds to compile. It isn't too much, but it's annoying. Especially since I'm performing ...
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How do I customize Beamer template?
I need to create a custom Beamer presentation theme for my company. I need to do the following:
Include company logo in the header of each slide
Include large company logo in the center of the ...
