{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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Auto-populate the frame titles from subsection titles
Is there a way to make \frametitle automatically take the \subsection heading?
Or maybe equivalently, is there a way to make the section\subsection titles in the header larger? I am afraid the ...
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How to change the end-proof symbol in Beamer?
I would like to change the symbol for the end of proofs (the square) used in Beamer. It is quite thin, not very visible in some colorthemes. How can I have a thicker border and still in the structure ...
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figures and blocks in the same slide
I would like to place in a slide a block of words and at right of it a figure so that in the slide the figure will be on the left and the block explaining it at right. I'm using Beamer.
I tried the ...
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Email field in beamer class?
I am new to the beamer class and I am struggling to include my email info in a presentation.
I tried \email but there is no such field. I tried the below but the theme over-rode the \small making the ...
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Override default equation numbering in Beamer?
I need to override the default equation numbering behavior.
I want the numbers next to equations in my Beamer slide presentation to match with the numbers of the same equations in my paper.
so ...
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How do you get block dimensions in Beamer?
I'm using a block for emphasizing different pieces of information. I'd like those pieces to be constrained to the block dimensions and to use the columns environment, but I don't know how to get the ...
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Position an exampleblock in front of content
I need to position an example block:
\begin{exampleblock}{}
Proposed and implemented
\end{exampleblock}
Without disturbing other frame content. Something like:
--------------------
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How to define the vertical location of navigation text?
I am using beamer2thesis, i.e., the beamerthemeTorinoTh style to compile my presentation slides. It is nice but I realized that I need to do some modifications. The upper header stripes seems quite ...
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Why can't I load miniframes outer theme after Szeged theme?
Making some tests to answer omit delete second bar under the navigation bar in szeged theme I found that
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Szeged}
\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{miniframes}
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Including Large Tables in a beamer Frame
What is the best way of including large tables in a beamer presentation?
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using \textit in \section{} with beamer class
For a presentation using the beamer class (MiKTeX 2.8 with TeXnicCenter on Windows Vista) I need to have the italicized title of a book in a section heading. When I use \textit{...} or \emph{...} ...
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How do I change \footnote font size in beamer presentation?
I tried all methods from this question: How to change font family in footnote?
and none of them work for me...
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Greek character in Beamer document title
I need to include the Greek letter sigma in the title of my Beamer presentation. When I use $\sigma$ to obtain the symbol (which works fine in other LaTeX document titles), I receive the warning ...
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Dancing images in beamer
When creating a slide using pauses and \only, I am getting cases where the content shifts between slides. I have tried using overlayarea and overprint as described in Avoiding jumping frames in beamer ...
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Loop for includegraphics
I try to make multiple slides in beamer with 3 figures on each slide and the title.
I would like to loop through the list/array of figures and set the frame title.
The name of the figure files and the ...
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Move TikZ cloud in a better position using beamer
I am trying to manipulate the exact position of a TikZ cloud but I am not sure if I'm doing any effort at all.
As you see in the aforementioned picture the space between items is not beautiful. So ...
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Savebox with \bgroup/\egroup doesn't work in beamer (for environment)
This works:
\documentclass{article}
\newsavebox{\mybox}
\begin{document}
\savebox{\mybox}\bgroup This is a test.\egroup\usebox{\mybox}
\end{document}
But this fails (Missing } inserted. at the ...
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LaTeX beamer handout mode textpos
I'm using beamer with textpos to place certain blocks at particular positions (in particular, I use the textblock* environment).
When I attempt to create a handout, the pieces of text within ...
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redefine \includegraphics for beamer
I'm using Pandoc to convert from markdown to LaTeX or Beamer.
The LaTeX template of Pandoc has nice command so that images are resized to fit the text width but the Beamer output is not.
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making a box in beamer — center aligning the title
I want to center align the word prediction in the following. I would appreciate any help in doing so.
\documentclass[professionalfont, fleqn]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Overprint environment inside tikz node: unexpected alignment of content
I want to use an overprint environment inside a tikz-node.
I expect the content text of the overprint-sections to be aligned centrally, but it aligns right and even protrudes a little beyond the ...
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Tree using Latex
I want to to reduce the size of the node to which they perceived better in my presentation; the problem is that the nodes are overlap.
I have the code from Drawing a tree where many nodes have the ...
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Removing document icons from a Bibtex bibliography in Beamer
I'm preparing a Beamer presentation that includes (on the final slide) a short bibliography in the Harvard style (agsm). This works fine, but I find the article icons accompanying each reference ...
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Using \only on a block - beamer
Is it a way to make the command \only works on the block in beamer?
Or is there another way to make a block appear and then disappear?
Here a part of my code:
\documentclass{beamer}
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Singapore Beamer Theme - add bottom bar with author info
I made presentation slides using the Singapore Beamer theme. I think this theme looks very professional, but it doesn't include a bottom toolbar that includes my name and institution. How do I add a ...
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Beamer margins in bibliographies
In beamer I am using this code:
\begin{frame}[allowframebreaks]
\frametitle{REFERENCES}
\printbibliography
\end{frame}
to produce a bibliography that will span multiple slide pages ...
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Changing the font for “alert” in beamer
I would like to change the behaviour of \alert so that the text is still red but now boldfaced, say. How can I do this? I have Googled, but all I can find is how to change the colour, as in Changing ...
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Keep column height in Beamer when replacing content
I have a frame in Beamer that consists of two columns. The content of one column remains the same, the content of the other column is replaced on the second slide.
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}
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Same indentation of itemize and itemize in columns
How can I get the indentation to be the same for normal itemize and itemize in columns? Like in the example code below, the itemize in a column is less indented.
\documentclass{beamer}
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Beamer + subfigure numbering
When using beamer with the subfigure package, the subfigure labels (a), (b) etc. are not reset at the beginning of a new figure.
Example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{subfigure}
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Beamer: multiple references to the same footnote
In the LaTeX wikibook I found a workaround for having multiple references to the same footnote:
First reference.\footnote{This is the footnote}\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}\addtocounter{Hfootnote}{-1}
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Beamer vs. Minted: overlays
How to use beamer overlay inside minted code? The obvious solution does not work:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{minted}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[fragile]
\frametitle{Foo}
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Textpos not showing anything
I'm trying to create a business card in LaTeX. Accordingly, I want to use textpos to absolutely position the various elements.
For some reason, textpos is just not showing anything. What I want is ...
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TikZ callout pointing to nested nodes
In the following MWE I want to create a TikZ callout pointing to a node within a node. The outer node is for the highlighting environment \tikzMe the inner node is for the \tikzmark. Somehow I do not ...
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Fancytooltips changes line spacing in beamer
I try to show the bibliographic entry in a popup when the mouse pointer is over the citation key. To achieve this, I use the code from Audrey's answer. In the beamer class, this results in some line ...
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Outlined characters in Beamer
Following Outlined characters, you can make selectable outlined text using the contour package. For example, the following writes "Text text text contour text", with "contour" in green with a red ...
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More on dealing with long description environment items in beamer
This is a follow-up question to Dealing with long description environment items
Gonzalo Medina was very helpfully resolving an issue I had with his solution to Dealing with long description ...
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Beamer tables like block structure look-and-feel
I am trying to define a type of table similar to the look-and-feel of beamer blocks. I tried the following (using the tabu for tables), but with no luck.
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(Avoid) hyperref links across pages, with automatically generated content
In my previous question I implemented thumbs.sty, a package that allows the creation of Thumbnails of other frames in beamer (if you want to read that one, you'd beter brew some fresh coffee :) ).
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Table of contents in Beamer
I have seen a nice looking table of contents in a Beamer presentation. There were some formulas, pictures, graphs situated across the frame in a shadow background. Any idea how to do this?
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babel, beamer problem: refuse name change to part
I wanted to change the name in my beamer slide from Part to Theme.
So in the Google BOK if found:
\renewcommand*{\partname}{Theme}
I could not get to work. Then I start to switch off (%) ...
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Separate Beamer navigation bar for some portions of presentation
I noticed in this example that the Introduction and Conclusion have their own navigation bars so that their entries are not taking up two extra lines in the main (body) navigation bar throughout the ...
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Beamer: How text wrapping around a graphic right aligned?
I want to include a graphic in beamer presentation with right alignment and this graphic should be wrapping by text. I tried three packages but non of them works correct (minimal example below).
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Beamer: Background Color for Footline
I define a custom footline template like that:
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
\hspace*{.5cm}
\includegraphics[scale=0.07]{images/image1.png}
\hspace{0.3cm}
\scriptsize{Seite ...
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Beamer round blocks without fading
I want to define a custom block in beamer.
Here are my definitions:
\documentclass[svgnames]{beamer}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded]
\setbeamercolor{block ...
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In Beamer, gray out \tableofcontents items already shown on previous frames
I've got a motivation slide preceding my table of contents slide. So when I show the audience the structure of the remainder of my talk I'd like the \tableofcontents to show the motivation slide in ...
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How to remove a single section from the header of a beamer presentation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
LaTeX Beamer: Frame outside sections?
I am using Beamer with the Warsaw theme, and all sections show up in my headline. Is there an easy way to remove them? I have tried ...
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What is the side effect when hyperref has stopped early?
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Are you kidding?}
No! I am not a good joker.
\end{frame}
\end{document}
The following is taken from ...
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Breaking table of contents between frames in beamer
I've got a rather long table of contents for my presentation in beamer, and it doesn't fit on one frame. I know I can provide a table of contents per section, or to manually break it between sections ...
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LyX TeX Table too big
I am including a TeX file into a LyX document using Insert -> Child Document. The Table looks fine on the LyX screen but when I preview the PDF it is 10 times too big. Not sure how to fiddle with the ...
