Presentations may be created with dedicated classes such as beamer, powerdot, HA-prosper, prosper, slides and seminar. If meaningful, add also the name of the concerned class as tag.
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Highlighting in beamer using TikZ nodes
Is it possible to alter the code in the following MWE to the effect that “ABCD” is visible on both slides but only on the second it has the red node as background?
\documentclass{beamer}
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Explanatory bubbles in beamer
In the MWE below I want to place an "explanatory bubble" (see picture inserted below) pointing to the word "Integer" in the 8th line (the bubble should superimpose the text, a transparency effect such ...
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Which package to use for presentations ? Beamer, Prosper, or Other
I have to prepare my slides in latex. A quick search came up with different packages. Before start preparing, I need your experiences. I do not want to regret after learning one as I did, learning vim ...
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How display LaTeX code in LaTeX document?
I'm making Beamer presentation. How I can display LaTeX code inside presentation?
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Note page showing the next frame
I would like to customise the note pages in Beamer to show:
the current frame that they refer to with its number,
the next frame of the presentation with its number,
the section and subsection,
the ...
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Can we use media9 to show a video on a PDF but the video is not embedded to the PDF?
I have video tutorials that I want to show in my presentation with beamer class. I don't want the video files get embedded to the PDF because they will make the PDF size very very huge.
If you know ...
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Are there alternatives to Beamer for slides ?
I like Beamer and I use it but I wanted to check if there other classes for slides or presentation purposes to consider seriously when starting to write a presentation.
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High level macros and environments based on Tikz
I was browsing the tikz examples that I found this wonderful example. The example uses tikz to create a tex environment to produce a framed text. The result looks like this:
The underlying process ...
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Beamer with Warsaw Theme: Two column navigation
I am using Beamer with the Warsaw theme to make a presentation. I quite like having a mini-outline of the TOC at the start of each slide. However, I have found that it tends to take up quite a bit ...
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Advantage of LaTeX presentations?
I've read that LaTeX can be used also for presentation, and that there are tools to make PDF presentations.
But I'm wondering: since LaTeX is a typographic language made to separate content from ...
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Which alternatives to the beamer class exist?
The title is pretty much self-explanatory. Do you know any LaTeX based beamer alternative? In my university, everyone is using beamer, and every presentation has the same layout, I'm sick of it. I was ...
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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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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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Presentations best style
What is the best package/style to build a presentation? I use PDFSLID. Any better?
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Automatic beamer presentation with one slide generated for each image in a directory?
I would like a simple script to "scrape" every image in a directory into a single beamer presentation as follows:
$ ls
%img1.jpg
%img2.jpg
%img3.jpg
$ *run script*
%OUTPUT SOMETHING LIKE ...
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How to make a larger “\dot”
I'm writing up some notes that will be displayed on an overhead projector. The standard time-derivative \dot{x} produces a dot that is hard to see. Does anyone know of a package or have a macro that ...
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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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Math slides looking like notes
I have seen some slides that look close to notes. For example,this one. I wonder what templates they are created? Not seem like by beamer, as there are more contents in each slide and not fancy at ...
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Pecha Kucha 20x20 using Beamer?
I create a code in LaTeX using Beamer class to produce a Beamer presentation in 20x20 format,
but in stackoverflow someone tell me that is horrible! Why? the code is:
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